My Grade 1 class asks - How will you make YOUR mark on International Dot Day?

Dot Day is around the corner...15th September-ish! I have already started the fun in my classes. My Grade 1 students discovered a way to make their mark on International Dot Day on the 15th September and they challenge you to come up with your ideas for making your mark!

Let's tell you about our lesson. 

My first plan was to introduce the class to Dot Day, and to get them listening to the story, The Dot,  via YouTube (as we unfortunately don't own the book yet). The class loved the story. In this particular lesson I got them listening to the author Peter Reynolds reading his story 'The Dot'. I wanted them to see Peter so that we could bring into the discussion the fact that he has also made his mark by writing such an inspiring book!


The idea behind the story, is to encourage students to discover their talents and energy, and use these to help make the world a better place. After listening we discussed how we could make our mark on the 15th September. Most of them thought of ideas revolving around their families, which is a great start.

I used and adapted the template created by Di Benner called 'About Me Google Slide Activity'. which comes from her wonderful page of Emoji links http://bit.ly/2M6Dhmc.

Since this was an ICT lesson we focused on the following skills:

• Working collaboratively on a Google slide presentation.
• Changing font
• Adding circles and writing in them
• Using online names
• Adding colour to a slide 

We'd love to know how you'll make your mark! Head over to the blog 'International Dot Day project' http://dotday.edublogs.org/ for some more Dot Day challenges.