This Bat Storytime is for librarians and classrooms serving Grades K-3. It is editable in three formats: PowerPoint, Google Slides, and PDF. Includes Recommended Reads, two Scavenger Hunt activities, and a 2-page Take Home Extension Activities. All text is editable.
This Bat Storytime is for librarians and classrooms serving Grades K-3. It is editable in three formats: PowerPoint, Google Slides, and PDF. Includes Recommended Reads, two Scavenger Hunt activities, and a 2-page Take Home Extension Activities. All text is editable.
This Bat Storytime is for librarians and classrooms serving Grades K-3. It is editable in three formats: PowerPoint, Google Slides, and PDF. Includes Recommended Reads, two Scavenger Hunt activities, and a 2-page Take Home Extension Activities. All text is editable.
This Bat Storytime is for librarians and classrooms serving Grades K-3. It is editable in three formats: PowerPoint, Google Slides, and PDF. Includes Recommended Reads, two Scavenger Hunt activities, and a 2-page Take Home Extension Activities. All text is editable.

Bat Storytime

$8.00

This Bat Storytime is full of facts about bats! It contains lots of facts about bats, different bat species, what they eat, and more. This elementary library lesson is perfect for librarians looking for an autumn Storytime or Halloween alternative.

 

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THIS BAT STORYTIME IS MADE ESPECIALLY FOR:

  • elementary librarians looking for an engaging Halloween alternative
  • elementary librarians on Specials rotation
  • secondary teachers who are now elementary librarians
  • busy parents who just don’t have time to create detailed storytime lessons

I have been all four of these at the same time! My storytimes are the lessons I would have wanted when I was a new, overwhelmed, and exhausted school librarian.

FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS BAT STORYTIME LIBRARY LESSON:

  • Recommended for: Grades K-3
  • Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
  • Formats: PPT or Google Slides; PDF
  • Editable: YES, all text is editable

 

DISCLAIMERS:

Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.

This presentation is full of real, close-up bat photos (see the preview for slide samples). The underlying idea is that bats are beneficial in many ways, and they won’t hurt humans as long as we leave them alone. Still, some students and teachers truly fear bats and may be afraid of the photos. As always, know your audience!

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET WITH THIS BAT STORYTIME:

  • 62-slide PPT + Google™ Slides
  • two differentiated scavenger hunt activities (2 pages)
  • answer key for the second scavenger hunt (1 page)
  • list of 32 bat-themed Recommended Reads (1 page)
  • Bat Storytime Take-Home Extension Activities (2 pages)
  • prep and set-up tips (1 page)
  • lesson plan templates (7 pages)
  • complete, detailed instructions for all included pieces
  • All printable pages can be edited in PPT, Google Slides, or PDF.

 

PART I – BAT STORYTIME SLIDES INCLUDE:

  • nursery rhyme (“Bat, Bat, Come Under My Hat”)
  • American sign language sign (link to video) – “bat”
  • “Fact or Fiction?” group discussion game
  • Colorful bat photos and clipart

 

PART II – SCROLLING SLIDES INCLUDE:

  • Fun facts about bats
  • 10 species of bats with photos
  • world’s largest and smallest bats
  • bats as seed spreaders
  • guano as fertilizer
  • where bats live
  • Are bats blind?
  • Are vampire bats real?
  • what to do if you see a bat outside (leave it alone)
  • Austin, Texas Congress Bridge bats
  • 4 US states that have an “official state bat”
  • Vocabulary: echolocation, colony, roost, migrate, hibernate, pups, guano, chiroptophobia, diurnal, nocturnal
  • bat simile (“Blind as a bat”)
  • bat idiom (“Going batty”)
  • 1 “Would-You-Rather” and 1 “This or That”
  • 1 bat joke
  • Library skill: fiction versus nonfiction

 

PART III – REVIEW QUESTIONS

Part III is a newer addition to my Library Storytimes. This is a section of review questions. They make great time-fillers or help control potential chaos that sometimes happens at line-up or while waiting for teachers to pick up students from Specials.

This part includes 6 editable review questions. All the questions are answered in the presentation.

BAT STORYTIME SCAVENGER HUNTS

  • differentiated (one is images-only; one is images + text)
  • 2 pages, PDF
  • Scavenger Hunt #1 is an images-only hunt. Students can complete this scavenger hunt without reading the text on the slides.
  • Scavenger Hunt #2 includes both images and text. This one is for the students who are able to read the Part II slideshow. This scavenger hunt includes images and questions about the information in the slideshow.
  • Scavenger Hunt #2 includes answer key

 

LIST OF RECOMMENDED READS

  • fiction, nonfiction, and chapter books for Grades K-3
  • all books have a bat theme
  • total of 32 titles
  • titles are editable, so you can customize the titles for your classroom or library
  • All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive reviews, and currency.
  • Every book on the list received at least one positive review on Titlewave. Several also received starred reviews and/or book awards.

 

TAKE-HOME EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

I am so excited about this new addition to my Library Lessons! You can download an example (Spiders) here. This Bat Storytime includes a similar Take-Home Extension Activities handout, except it’s bat-themed.

Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page Bat Take-Home Extension Activities Handout, students can:

  • quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the bat facts they learned in the Storytime
  • prepare a yummy bat-themed snack
  • read some recommended bat picture books
  • review bat vocabulary words from the lesson
  • learn to draw a cute bat using simple, step-by-step directions
  • remember how to sign “bat” in American Sign Language
  • write words that rhyme with bat
  • 2 pages, text is editable in PPT, Google Slides, or PDF

 

MORE SCIENCE – THEMED LIBRARY ACTIVITIES

This Spiders Storytime Library Lesson is for Grades k-3. Makes a great Halloween alternative!   This Deadliest Animals Library Lesson is for libraries serving Grades 2-5. Includes presentation, printables, and standards-aligned lesson plan.   This Shark Storytime is for Grades 1-4. It was created for elementary libraries, but it can also work well in the classroom.

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