Dot Day

Hello everyone,

I am so excited to be celebrating Dot Day with your children next week. This is a project inspired and created by child author and illustrator Peter Reynolds. Reynolds has written and illustrated eight books independently and illustrated other author's works throughout his career. Reynold's goal in writing these stories is to encourage and support the creativity and talent that he, as do I, believes exists in each student.

On Friday we will be celebrating this ideal by reading and re-reading some of Reynolds work and partaking in some dot related activities. Students will create their very own dot math manipulatives and use them in math workshop, we will create our own dot stories in writing, and have both small and whole group discussions about the books Ish and The Dot.


We will be documenting and sharing this celebration via the blog so that you can all share in the experience. I have also included a link to his website so that you can explore as well if you wish. This celebration will mark the end to our first author study in kindergarten, we will be following with Gail Gibbons and David Shannon. I will ask students to wear dots on Thursday night, but this is not mandatory, we will have plenty of our own dots to decorate!

http://www.peterhreynolds.com/meet.html
Ms. Davison