International Dot Day 2013

As you can see, we had lots of fun celebrating International Dot Day on Friday!  We started by watching The Dot on Fablevision's Big Screen Books, narrated by the one and only Peter H. Reynolds.We also watched an author visit with Peter.  
After that, students painted dots using water colors or drew dots with crayons and markers while they had their snacks. 
Following recess, I showed them a cool video from Steve Spangler science that you can watch here: Sharpie Tie-dye video. Then the kids got to work!  Didn't the Dots come out beautiful?!  (In order to get the color to really stick, set it with heat from an iron.  Just be careful not to iron the iron-on frame.)
Later on, after math and our Welcome Back assembly, students designed dots on the ColAR template made just for Dot Day!  We used iPads to make the dots 3-d!  So cool!  I was able to get screen shots of a couple (posted below our Animoto).  Enjoy!