In the spirit of Halloween, we got a little "batty" this week, with some fantastic chalk pastel art! But if we're going to do art with bats, we really should learn more about them! We began our investigations by first reviewing what we know already. We had so many stories about bats and lots of great facts to put on the board, but we still had plenty of lingering questions to investigate. Madame: "Where can we find the answers to our questions?" Us: "Google! Siri! Alexa! YouTube! ...Facebook?" Madame: "Ok, yes, perhaps... but can you think of one more?" Us: *silence* *confusion* Madame: "Do you think we could find some answers in a book?" Us: *shrugging* *shifting in seats uncomfortably* ... "Maybe?" Clearly, we needed to backtrack a couple of decades to when books were considered a valuable source of information. So the next day... BOOKS! Us: "But Madame, we can't read!" Madame: "Maybe not, but you can look at the pictures for clues!" So out came the sticky notes and we were tasked with getting with a partner to find 3 interesting pages. It was amazing how much information we were able to learn just from those pictures that had intrigued us. From all of our discoveries, we were able to summarize some of our findings and pose for some pictures to create a little book of our own. Here's a little teaser before the big publishing date... "Bats eat fruit, insects, frogs, mice, and even other bats." "La chauve-souris mange des fruits, des insectes, des grenouilles, des souris, et des autres chauves-souris." "Bats use echolocation to find food at night." "La chauve-souris utilise l'écholocation pour trouver la nourriture pendant la nuit." To be continued... Also in the spirit of Halloween, we did a spooky ghost experiment this week. Which film canister ghost would fly the highest when we put an alka seltzer tablet inside?... the one with hot water, cold water, or lukewarm water? We made some great hypotheses, but surprisingly, the winner was lukewarm water! It flew way up into the tree! The hot water seemed like it should fly the highest, but the pill dissolved so quickly that Madame couldn't even get the ghost back onto the ground before it exploded! So in the end, the warm water was the winner! And then there were...leeeeeeeaves!!!!... We had so much fun running through them, jumping in them, rolling on them, and throwing them. Extra photos...
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