First we read the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds and discussed the story and the idea of "making your mark" on the world. This was kind of a hard idea for the class to understand and we will continue to talk about ways people make their mark as we move on. We tried making colorful marker dots on coffee filters and dipping them in water. This made some wavy art and we could see some of the colors that make up other colors as the water made the ink run.
In writing time, we made dot art by turning several large and small dots into a picture and then started stories about them.
During math we counted a collection of dots to practice our number skills. Some students counted by ones and wrote all the numbers while others grouped the dots and skip counted.
Near the end of the day, we did a different kind of drawing activity, in which students used their creativity to turn the dots into as many different kinds of things as they could think of! We had lots of ideas:
Of course we also dressed in dots today, but since I forgot to take any photos, you will just have to use your imagination to picture how cute everyone looked!
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