A Dot Day Guessing Contest To Kick Off Our Celebrations!

 

It's Dot Day Week, one of our favorite celebrations of the year.  We have celebrated International Dot Day for 18 years at Van Meter.  It's such a special way to celebrate creativity as we make our mark in so many different ways throughout the week. 

When everyone comes to school tomorrow they will see the Dot Day poster up around the library and on our BenQ interactive board in the daily slides. 

You can grab it here if you need one!  Feel free to change it up to fit your Dot Day celebrations. 

We are going to do a Dot Day Guessing Contest with a jar of orange pom pom's. I made a poster that you can find here in Canva. 

I made these little paper slips they will write their name and guess on.  They will put them into the plastic container that I usually do our This or That in each week. You will find the paper slips here. 

I can't wait to see what everyone is doing in their libraries too this week.  

Have a wonderful Dot Day, friends. 

You've Been Book'd With Books To Share This Fall!

 

Fall is right around the corner and there is a wonderful lineup of fiction and nonfiction books to share with our readers, and all of you. 

I brought together 23 books in a special Follett Content Titlewave list that I included in the You've Been Book'd With Books To Share This Fall. 

You can click on each book cover here in the choice board to find the book in Titlewave, and the entire list is there too. 

Have a fun fall season, friends. I can't wait to hear what books you have for fall too! 

What Could You Create? Inspiring Creativity with a New 3D Printing Challenge Every Week!

For our Makerspace, I also created a 3D Printing Challenge. In this one, I really want to push their creativity and thinking, and engage them with a challenge each week. 

It is called What could you create?  a New 3D Printing Challenge Every Week! 

I will give them a 3D printing challenge that will prompt them with a title and question.  

For example, the one above, Make It Move, asks them...What could you create that spins, rolls, or moves? 

They can sketch their idea and describes what it is, or what it does.  

The ideas are due each Friday. I will draw one winner and they can come to the Makerspace to bring their ideas to life on our 3D printer. 

I created 25 3D Printing Challenge cards to start. You will find them here in Canva.

And the poster I put into a 8 1/2 x 11 frame is the first slide in that link.  

Feel free to mix it up however you want, friends. 

My sister, Heather, and I were saying how fun it would be turn these into Makerspace cards without a 3D printer aspect to them.  I will do that next!