March Into Reading 2012

I am very excited to be returning to Aquidneck Island on March 2nd and 3rd for March Into Reading 2012.  I always enjoy visiting and meeting the students in Middletown, Portsmouth, and Newport, RI.

Here's a fabulous website with lots of details: Wild About Reading and the official info on Salve Regina University's website: Aquidneck Collaborative for Education

Here's the official flyer:

I think Baby Bat and Pluribus Packrat will make a guest appearance.  :-)

From Home in the Cave, written by Janet Halfmann, Sylvan Dell Publishing 2012.

Heck of a Bunch-February 2012
A book with delightful illustrations, Home in the Cave is a keen story for younger children to learn about bats and caves.  A baby bat doesn't want to leave the comforts of the cave but soon runs across a rat that explores the cave with him, showing why bats are important to other animals and the different animals that dwell in caves.  The baby bat learns that it's important to learn to hunt and leave the cave so it can be dependable to the other cave creatures.  In the "Creative Minds" section at the back of the book you can learn about life in cave zones, rock formations, cave habitats, bat ecolocation, and more.
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Reading 2 Know-February 2012
Home in the Cave is the first book we read and quite possibly my favorite. This, despite the fact that I am not fond of the little buggars. (We have had a bat or two inside our home. Two of which we've discovered flying over us in our bed at 2 a.m. Not exactly my idea of a good time or a welcome houseguest!) This one though is by one of our favorite animal authors, Janet Halfmann. In this story, Baby Bat loves his cave home and thinks he never wants to leave it, despite the fact that his mother is telling him he needs to practice flying so that he can go out and hunt for his own food. He makes friends with another cave dweller, a packrat, who shows him around the cave and teaches him how necessary bats are when it comes to sustaining cave life for other animals. This book is informative and interesting.
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Hope to see you at Salve Regina University on Saturday!