Write some amusing 'dotty' rhymes for International Dot Day with grade 3

We are loving our Dot Day activities in preparation for International Dot Day on 15th September. We love being part of the collaborative Dot Day project with three other countries (see http://dotday.edublogs.org/)

We had a fun, dotty lesson recently that involved grade 3. What happened is… the Grade 3’s wrote some DOTTY RHYMES!  Let’s say it another way - amusing nonsensical rhymes!

This is how Google defines 'dotty':

This is what happened in the lesson.

In a previous lesson the grade 1s listened to the Dot Day story by Peter Reynolds found on this page. They each had to think of two or three words, which I then wrote lightly in pencil on their coloured dots and they traced over the writing in khoki pen.

The Grade 3s then chose one of these coloured dots and created a dotty rhyme from the two or three words on the dot.   They wrote their dotty rhymes in PowerPoint. You’ll see, in the example below, that the two or three words on the dots they chose are underlined in each dotty word.

Here are the dotty words:

What I did after they wrote their rhymes is I copied and pasted them all into one PowerPoint. PowerPoint is great for this because it allows you to keep the original formatting. I then uploaded the PowerPoint file to Microsoft OneDrive where it became a PowerPoint Online document. PowerPoint Online can be embedded into a blog or website so it was easy to embed into this post.

Here are the dotty rhymes.