Every year, one of the highlights in our school library is participating in International Dot Day! Dot Day, which is celebrated on September 15ish, is based on the book The Dot and is a celebration of creativity and making a difference in the world.
Each year, we begin by reading the book. Then, different grade levels had an opportunity to express their creativity in a variety of ways.
Our Kindergarten and first grade students colored a dot on a special sheet of paper from QuiverVision. After coloring their dots, the students got to see their dots "come to life" using the free QuiverVision Augmented Reality app! The students were so amazed and excited! They even figured out how to "pin" their dot so they could walk around the room and see their dot in different locations. It was so much fun watching the students full of wonderment!
After reading the book, our third grade students had an opportunity to code a dot using Scratch. Our students use Scratch with our Code to the Future program but this time they had more freedom and could experiment with different features.
In fourth grade, the students colored a dot and then used a mini green screen to create "wormholes". We used the green screen feature in iMovie for the first time (we've always used Do Ink in the past). It was quite a process and not all of the students finished but you can see some of their cool projects on our Flipgrid board. Directions and inspiration for this project came from this amazing blog post.
Second grade did not participate this year because we were busy creating introduction videos to send to our Global Read Aloud partners in Canada. More to come on this next month!
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