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Aiden St. George and Abigail Beaucase help decorate the “bat cave” in the third-grade wing of McMahon Elementary School in Lewiston on Wednesday. Four third-grade classes spent the past month and a half learning about bats. “Bats hang upside down because it uses less energy,” Savannah Connor-Schade said. “A vampire bat can go two days without eating,” Hailey Hughes said. “Bats in Maine are being affected by white-nose syndrome,” St. George said. Students posted what they learned in the hallway. “We usually have a bat cave in the classroom, but this year we decided to go big,” teacher Cassandra McGuan said. While the smallest bat has a wingspan of 5 inches, information in the hall states, the largest has a wingspan of 6 feet.
Eighty third-grade students from Cassandra McGuan’s, Kim Robash’s, Hillary Poussard’s and Brittney Garcia’s classrooms created a bat cave with information they learned about bats. The students will hang their final reports once they are finished. One fact on the wall of the bat cave stated that a bat can eat 600 mosquitoes in one hour.
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