International Dot Day

On Tuesday the Year 2 Neighbourhood celebrated International Dot Day. Dot Day began in 2009 when a teacher Terry Shay introduced The Dot book by Peter H. Reynolds to his class. The aim of Dot Day is to encourage creativity, courage and collaboration. The Dot is a beautiful story about a caring teacher who encourages a child to 'make a mark'. It begins with a small mark on the page and leads to the child developing confidence, self belief and courage. We began our celebration by viewing The Dot and discussing the meaning of the book. The children then had the opportunity to take part in a variety of dotty learning experiences, including creating 3D shapes using the pointillism technique, representing an emotion on a coloured dot, creating their own dotty pictures with watercolour, making dotty animation and going on a dot hunt. Below are some photos from the day. 

Neighbourhood Artwork

Creating dot drawings

Emotions on dots

Jonah enjoying the floor dots

Pointillism