Magee is Celebrating International Dot Day!

International Dot Day was September 15th.  Magee celebrated on Monday and is continuing to celebrate all week.  When I put an email out to my staff to see if anyone was interested in celebrating the day, I got a lot of responses.  I was very excited to see that my art teacher, Christine Jones was interested.  She really loves the book, The Dot by Peter Reynolds.  That book has inspired children and adults around the world and it continues to inspire with the celebration of International Dot Day.  We sat down together and planned art projects for all the grade levels with the theme of circles, dots and collaboration.  She, of course, had the best ideas!  The art projects also all related to math and concepts that she teaches in her curriculum.





For example, in second grade the students are all collaborating on one big classroom dot.  Mrs. Jones divided each dot into six pie slices and each table got 1/6 of the pie to work on.  They study fractions in second grade. Students used collage and color to design the pie slices.





 In kindergarten they were already working on tracing, so their project involved tracing different sized circles and overlapping them. They then used crayons to add design.

I wanted to bring some technology into the day, so third grade paired up and used iPads and the Drawing Pad app to created dots.



The best part of the day was that I got to hang out in the art room all day!  What a fun day!  I'll post more about our celebration of Dot Day soon.