King Download: Dot Day! Celebrating Creativity!

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Dot Day! Celebrating Creativity!

Last week was also a special day celebrated around the world...International Dot Day! This day is used to recognize the creativity that all of us have. Based on the story, The Dot, a boy who feels he lacks creativity realizes that even a dot can be transformed into something creative. He also learns to be proud of his work and encouraged to be proud and sign each piece of work.

Here is a video that I showed the students about "Dot Day". It is called...."The Dot Song". The students love it!!

I loved how the students came in showing their creativity by covering themselves with dots or wearing clothes with dots on them. It was the start to a great day. We spent the last hour of the day by going through different stations in which the students could show their creativity focusing on "a dot". Some of our activities were:

*painting a large class dot showing our individual creativity

*a "dot hunt" throughout the school using our iPads to take pictures and then turning those pictures into a collage using "Pic Collage"

*designing and decorating foam dots

*designing book marks or paper dots

*using iPads to create pictures using dot designs

*eating yummy "dot" munchies

It was a fun way to celebrate being creative!