As part of our exploration of bats, today we did a survey of how we feel about these interesting – and sometimes scary looking – animals. Students decorated their own bat (with whatever colours they wanted) and then we placed these in one of three columns in our bulletin board bat cave. Students had the choice of “I like bats . . .”, “I don’t like bats . . . “, and “I am not sure how I feel (about bats) . . .”
I have been encouraging students to make up their own minds and not to choose the option that their friends – or the majority of the class – chooses. This has been a bit of an issue with our morning sign-in graph as many students just put their ‘doodle bug’ name where they see everyone else answering – oftentimes without even reading the question. We will continue to work on this.