Dot Day
One of my favorite weeks of the year is when I get to collaborate with our art teacher for DOT DAY. She brings the students into the library during their art time, and we co-teach the lessons. We like to start off the class with a discussion about where we can find art in the library. Then, especially with kinder students, we talk about what an illustrator does. Since Peter Reynolds is both the author and the illustrator, we don't get into collaboration between the two a lot this week, but later in the year we like to do lessons where we discuss how the author and illustrator collaborate on the story.
I read the book, THE DOT by Peter Reynolds, to the students. We talk about the lesson from the story, then go to dot stations.
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| Start with a dot, then see what you can make. |
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| Her dot, turned into a strawberry seed. |
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| Collaborative Dot -- students each received 1/4 of a dot, decorated it, then got in teams and put the puzzle together to create a dot. |
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| At another station, students were given a hand lense and sent on a mission. They were dot-tectives. |
ISH
Since I saw students during their art time, for some of the students I saw them twice this week. The second time I saw the students, I read the book ISH by Peter Reynolds. We weren't for sure, but the students and I decided that this was the boy at the end of THE DOT that Vashti helps out.
After reading the story, students made their own -ISH drawings.
Favorite Picture of the Week
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| This sweet girl was so excited to find all the PUPPY PLACE books. |
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