How we celebrated Dot Day

Do you remember Dot Day from last year and what it means?  All library classes on Tuesday, September 18th, read the book and celebrated in different ways.

photo credit: http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/

2C- again this year second grade students designed their own dots and we used a little iPad augmented reality (Quiver app) to view them:

Students enjoyed watching their creations pop up in 3D and start spinning!

4G- The Dot is a book about trying something new and not getting discouraged when it doesn't go as planned at first.  Fourth grade students wrote out suggestions for classmates to try something new-- on the reverse side of the index card, students designed their own dot.  We put them in a basket and pulled them out.  Would we try the new thing our classmate had suggested?  Why or why not?

A sampling of suggestions from 4G:

• get a dog
• eat a red hot chili pepper
• swim with dolphins
• get a dirt bike
• trying going snorkeling
• read Harry Potter
• eat 15 hamburgers in an hour
• try loving school

3W: Students again this year designed a dot inspired by a book that made a "mark" on them or had some kind of an impact: