B is for beach, but also bats. We studied vibrations and did everything "bat" this week. This game in the picture is where someone was blindfolded and was the bat, someone else was a tree and didn't move, and the others were moths and flew around. It was just like Marco Polo. The bat would call out, "Moths!" and the moths would say, "Here!" and the bat would have to find the moths using only their sense of hearing. If the bat got too close to the tree (or something else that could endanger the bat) the tree would whisper, "Tree!" and the bat would know to turn around. It was such a fun game, and they learned a lot!
There were so many great bat ideas...one day I tied a cotton ball around each of the kids necks. Each cotton ball had a different scent on it (I used vanilla extract, tabasco sauce, and lemon juice) I had a bunch of other cotton balls (the bat babies) all grouped together in the 'cave'. Each child had to find their own baby by finding the one that had the same scent. It was so cute, and they were right every time!
We did a bunch of other fun things...read stories and recited poems too. Our favorite poem was:
"The baby bat cried out in fright,
'Turn on the dark
I'm afraid of the light!'"
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