Making Our Mark!

Today Monday September 15th is International Dot Day! This day was inspired by the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds which is about a girl whose teacher inspires her to make a mark on her page and challenges her to see where it takes her. The girl makes her mark, a dot, and continues to grow artistically and eventually inspires another child to make their mark.

Me and the 3rd grade team here at BES collaborated to celebrate Dot Day with our 3rd graders. In the art room, we read the book and talked about the importance of taking chances and seeing where it takes you. We talked about how everyone's dot would be different and why. We looked at dots created by people all over the world in celebration of marking their mark on International Dot Day. Then, the students were able to create their own dot that will be displayed in the hallway with the rest of the 3rd graders' dots!

Take a look at the creativity we discovered by making our marks on Dot Day!

 

And our hallway display! A tree to show how each of our third graders are making their marks together!