Dot Day Celebration!

On Wednesday, Stough's students had a great day celebrating Dot Day!  If you don't know, Dot Day is a day to celebrate the "book birthday" of Peter Reynolds' book The Dot.  This book teaches us several lessons, but one of them is that each of us is able to make our mark on the world.  Students came into the library media center and rotated through stations of dot-themed activities. 

Students created dots with markers and crayons and then used the magic of augmented reality and the Quiver app to transform them from ordinary to extraordinary.

Students got active with dots and some Twister games and designed dots for a collaborative art project.   

2nd-5th grade students experimented with making their mark with lights and a camera.

To see more of our amazing Dot creations, check out our Seesaw blog page!

To read The Dot, you can check it out from your favorite library or use Bookflix or Tumblebooks in our reading links.  If you need a password, contact Mrs. Galvan!  

Book of the day

One of my goals this year is to use my blog and Twitter accounts to promote reading.   One or more days each week I will feature a book that I am excited about here on my blog and through Twitter.

Today is our first day back from winter break, but we are all eagerly checking our weather apps because we see predictions of snow for the weekend.   We hope we will not miss any school days for the snow, but we know that sometimes our whole lives are disrupted by a little snow.   Whenever we miss a day (or days) of school for snow or can't go outside for recess because the temperature is too low, I am reminded of one of my favorite nonfiction books in our library, Recess at 20 Below.



This book takes us to a classroom in Alaska where students always go to school when there is snow around and can go out to recess as long as it is no colder than 20 degrees below zero!   I was surprised to learn why these students can't have good snowball fights and why seesaws and swings pose their own problems as the snow piles up during the winter.   When I read Recess at 20 Below by Cindy Lou Aillaud, I gained a new understanding of how life can be different in Alaska.  At the same time, I decided that I really like living in North Carolina where we can look forward to the occasional snow storm.