Bat cave day in the classroom

Turn your classroom into a classroom cave and cover TONs of standards while you are at it! Crawl into your classroom cave and read and explore ALL DAY!

It's that time of year, my friends! The days are getting "shorter." The air is getting cooler. The trees are changing colors. It'...

So I am finally getting around to finishing my Bat Day blog post! (I know...a year a later, please hold the applause! Ha! But really... better late than never right?) Let's jump right in! Let's talk about the importance of creating an environment of study for your kids. When I did this lesson I got a lot of, "I would NEVER have time to do all that." "Why go through all that trouble of staying late when your kids won't even appreciate it?" "I wish I had time to do fun things in my…

Do you teach your kinders about bats during the month of October? Kindergarten students love to learn about any animal, and teaching ab...

I knew October would be the perfect month to try my first classroom transformation. I saw a blog post from Fun in First that sparked my interest and I knew exactly where I was headed. Transformation mission=Bat Cave! That same night, I literally drug my husband to Walmart to get all the goodies. Here's what I came away with, and all for under $20....$17 to be exact! Welcome to the Bat Cave! Here are 2 main focus points, our entrance and our SmartBoard, both covered with table cloths. If…

Bat Cave Classroom Transformation - Easy and Inexpensive to pull off! Read about how I transformed my classroom on my blog theprimarybrain.com #bats #halloween #classroom #classroomtransformation

I absolutely LOVE teaching my students about bats. It's a week that I look forward to every single year. The students just get so excited and

Have some fun practicing sight words with this Bat Sight Word Game by putting all your sleeping bats in the correct place in their sight word cave.

One of my favorite bat activities to do every year is to tell students the number of mosquitoes that one bat can eat in an hour... 600! If that doesn't make

We go batty at our school keeping an eye out for real bats that like to sneak in. I enjoy going batty in Kindergarten, because the stude...