Dot Day is based on the story The Dot. On this day we celebrate the main ideas from the story: bravery, creativity and making your mark. This year we started out year by reading the story You Be You by Linda Krantz. In the story the little fish Adri notices that all the fish in the sea are different and have something different to share. The pages are filled with fish (painted stones) that bring the message of opposites, diversity and acceptance. You be You encourages us to always be ourselves. After listening to the story and discussing its message students designed their own fish to represent their own amazing self! Their paper fish our currently on display throughout the building!
After their paper fish were complete we reread the story The Dot, reviewed what Dot Day is about and created our dot on stones- similar to the illustrations in You Be You. Students used their paper fish as the plan for their painted rock.
We celebrated Dot Day on November 16th so that everyone would have time to complete their projects before the big day.
On this day parents were invited to celebrate creativity with their child during their specialist time. All the specialists were stationed in the lobby and grade levels met us downstairs. Originally the plan was to place our rocks outside our school building so the students could truly leave their mark on our school and community but I recieved some bad news a few daysbefore the event that this would no longer be allowed. I am in the process of working on finding an alternate location for our stones (stay tuned!) but in the meantime
