It’s Bat Week! Start the week off making a “colony” of bats (yes, I looked it up, and a group of bats is called a colony!). Each student, of course, will make his or her own bat.
On the Friday before beginning Bat Week, take a picture of each student’s face. Print the photos out in a fairly large size-large enough to fit on the bat’s head. Cut out the face but not the hair, ears, etc. Give each child a pair of wings, a head, and a pair of feet cut out of black or brown paper (let them, of course, choose their color)-have the students who are able cut out their own, and students who are not able can either have theirs pre-cut or a peer or adult can help them cut using switch powered scissors. Also, don’t forget that for students who are not yet independently proficient using regular scissors, there are hand-over-hand, loop, and other types of adaptive scissors.
Trace each child’s foot and cut it out (or, of course, have them cut it!). Turn it upside down and have the students glue on the head, wings, and feet. Glue each student’s face to the head of his or her bat. Once they have dried, hang them (upside down, of course). If you want to get really cute with this, you could make a large tree and hang the bats from the tree. You could also attach the wings with brads instead of gluing them so that they fold up.
Today, put shredded paper in your sensory table along with pumpkin buckets and rubber bats.
For science, read a nonfiction book about bats. Show the students some pictures of bats and talk about the bats’ body parts. Provide some magazine pictures of bats and have the students make collages out of them.
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