Books:

Stellaluna Janell Cannon	Loose Tooth Steven Kroll
Bat JamboreeKathi Appelt	Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats Ann Earle
Bats on Parade Kathi Appelt	The Bat In The Boot Annie Cannon
Bats Gail Gibbons	Amazing Bats Frank Greenaway
The Magic School Bus Going BattyNancy Crulik	Beautiful BatsLinda Glaser
Little Bat - Tania Cox

Websites:

Make a Bat Flip Book Enchanted Learning's Make a Bat Clip 1st Grade Bat Unit World Of Kindergarten Bat Unit Bats, Bats, Everywhere Explore a bat cave KinderKorner - Going Batty! Mrs. Vig's Bat Unit National Zoo Batcam

Poems & Songs:

Bats are Sleeping (Tune: Frere Jacques) Bats are sleeping Bats are sleeping Upside down. Upside down. Sleeping in the morning sun. Waiting for the night to come. Then they'll fly all around. Then they'll fly all around.

Five Batty Bats Five batty bats were hanging'neath the moon. "Quiet!" said the first. "The witch is coming soon." "She's green," said the second, "With a purple pointy nose." "Black boots," said the third, "Cover up her ugly toes." "Her broom," said the fourth, "Can scratch you - that I know! "I'm scared," said the fifth "I think we'd better go." Five batty bats escaped into the night "Dear me," said a witch. "That's a scary sight!"

Five Black Bats by Shel Silverstein Five black bats ready to soar One stayed behind, now there are four Four black bats hanging from a tree; One fell down, now there are three Three black bats wondering what to do; One flew away, now there are two Two black bats sitting in the sun; One fell asleep, leaving only one. One lonesome bat with no place to go, Went hiding in a cave, Now there are zero.

5 Little Bats 5 little bats came flying in the door, one flew away and that left only 4 4 little bats hiding in a tree, one flew away and that left 3 3 little bats looking down at you, one flew away and that left 2 2 little bats hiding from the sun, one flew away and that left just one. 1 little bat hanging all alone, He flew away and then there were none.

Arts and Crafts:

Make a bat mask. Cut out bat shape on black or brown construction paper. Use a hole punch to make holes on the sides. Decorate with crayons, glitter, colored pencils, etc. Cut out the eye holes. Add elastic through the holes to create the mask. Stellaluna Stick Puppet Very cute! [pattern found in Teacher's Helper, Sept/Oct, 1997] Carboard Tube Bats To make one bat, paint a cardboard tube black or brown. Set the tube aside to dry. Using a wings pattern, make an oaktag tracer. Use white chalk to trace the wings onto black or brown construction paper; then cut them out. Also cut out two small traingles from black or brown paper to represent the ears. Glue the wings, the ears, and a pair of wiggle eyes to the tube as shown. Display the bats upside down. Coffee Filter Bat. Begin by using a hole puncher to punch out two small circles from white paper. Use a black pen to make a dot in the center of each one. Glue the resulting eyes to a large black pom-pom. glue on a short length of rick-rack trim to make the bat's mouth, as well as two small paper triangles for ears. To make the bat's wings, color a coffee filter with a black marker; then fold the filter into a triangle. Dip the points of the triangle into water. Unfold the filter and allow it to dry. Fold the dry filter in half to make a half-circle; then use a twist-tie to gather the folded filter in the center. Use craft glue to attach the prepared pom-pom to the twist-tie at the center of the wings. [ Mary Jo Hanson - The Blair Early Learning Center]

Language Arts:

Many bats are given names by what they look like: such as the big-eared bat or the leaf-nosed bat. Share pictures of real bats. Help children think of imaginary names for the bats using this characteristic. Visit Mrs. Vig's 1st grade site from my website links for other ideas like this! How many words can you think of that rhyme with bat? What happened to Stellaluna? Use pictures to sequence the events of the story. Included in Teacher's Helper, Sept/Oct 1997 is a picture of the characters (and some other animals too) in the book Stellaluna. Students will recall which characters were in the story and which were not.

Math:

Bats In The Belfry worksheet. - Numerals and Sets [Worksheet: Teacher's Helper, Sept/Oct, 1997] Bat Brigade worksheet. Worksheet reviews basic shapes: circle and triangle. [Worksheet, Teacher's Helper, Sept/Oct 1997] Trace a bat pattern onto white paper. Divide the entire picture up into sections by drawing random lines over the picture. Label each of the sections with a particular number or shape (up to 4 different numbers or shapes.)Give directions for the student to color all the 2's and 7's black.(the sections on the bat shape) Give directions to color the 4's and 9's yellow. (those sections not the bat shape) When they complete this correctly they will have a bat picture. Balls and Bats worksheet. Numerals and sets worksheet. (Cut and paste) (Teacher's Helper, Sept/Oct 1997)

Snacks:

Stellaluna's Fruit Sticks You will need (per child): craft stick, 2 banana slices, 1 large grape, 2 melon chunks. 1. Push the stick through a grape. 2. Add 2 banana slices. 3. Finish with 2 melon chunks.

Science:

As a follow-up to reading Stellaluna you can compare how bats and birds are alike and how they are different. All About Bats booklet. Pages include these facts: Bats come out at night. Bats can fly. Some bats eat harmful insects.Bats live together. Bats need our help.

Readiness / Independent:

Moon and Midnightworksheet. Student will color the bat picture by recognizing color words. (Taken from Teacher's Helper, Kindergarten, Sept/Oct 1996)

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