Happy International Dot Day! We had a blast celebrating in our classroom. The students all came dressed in dots and it was so great to see them get into the spirit of the day. The students came into class and made their own dots for our poster and signed their names beside their unique dot! We started our day listening to Peter Reynolds The Dot on the Smartboard. We spent a bit of time afterwards talking about the message in the story which is to persevere and don't give up. We discussed how Vashti kept trying and discovered that she really was a good artist. We talked about how that works for learning to do anything in the classroom too. We listened to the Dot Song. It is a catchy song that the kids enjoyed singing and doing the actions to. Next, it was time for dot fun. Our first activity was a dot scavenger hunt. Everyone looked for dots and then I took some photos f the dots they spotted. They had no problems finding them in our classroom and around the school. After a short break from recess we were ready to do our dot math centers. The students sorted dots by various attributes like colour or size, they matched dot numbers, and made dot repeating patternings with various materials and on the light board. In the afternoon the students each received a dot to cut out and create a picture with. Then they needed to write a sentence to tell everyone what they can create with a dot. Please stop by our classroom on parent teacher night to see their writing! They are very proud of their work! Then it was time for some dot art! The students created dot art with buttons, googly eyes, paint and corks/glasses, markers and paper to draw dot art, bingo dabbers and coloured paper dots. It looked like we had a dot factory in our room once the students were done creating! At the end of the day we went outside and played with bubbles since they are round and look like a dot too! The students really enjoyed blowing bubbles to end the day.
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