Check Out The Recording Of The First Buncee Idea O'Clock & Learn About Start of the Year Journals!

Did you catch the very first Buncee Idea O'Clock last night?

It was so much fun to join Eda and Sooj, and lots of friends on our Facebook Live as we talked about..

..Start of the Year Journals and Time Capsules. 

We talked about how to create Buncee Journals and Time Capsules with lots of the new templates, backgrounds, messages and more.  You will find them in the creation canvas within Buncee too. 

You can check out the recording on the Buncee Educators Facebook page here.

For more ideas and conversations, please join the next Idea O'Clock session next Wednesday, September 23 at 7:30 PM ET. 

Making Your Mark With Buncee For Dot Day

It's Dot Day this week, friends.  On September 15ish, people around the world will celebrate by making our mark, just like in Peter H. Reynold's book, The Dot. 

At Van Meter, our celebrations have been underway for the last few weeks as our students make dots, 

create dots to bring to life with Quiver and augmented reality, 

and even shared art with our friends at StickTogether to create these virtual stickerboards. You can find how to get them here.  They have been having so much fun collaborating on these online together.

And our wonderful friends at Buncee have put together several amazing Dot Day activities, templates, stickers and backgrounds that make the perfect place for students to make their mark too.

Let me show you around Buncee, so you will know all of the choices for your students.

First, there are several new Dot Day templates, which...

...gives students a place to make their mark...

 ..using the templates and adding..

 ...text, stickers, animations, web images, photos, videos and so much more. They could even take their own picture and video to add that shares verbally how they will make their mark.

In the Buncee Ideas Lab, there are four different Dot Day activities that make it easy and inspire your students with a description, template and..

 ...example.

I was very excited to see the Dot Day Buncee Board where anyone can share their Dot Day Buncee.  These will spark creativity as students make their mark in Buncee. 

By using Buncee for Dot Day, we can do these activities with our students in school, face-to-face and while we are virtually learning together. It makes it not only easy to create anywhere, it's easy to share too. 

Enjoy celebrating Dot Day, friends. We can't wait to see how everyone makes their mark with Buncee.

You can find out more and sign up for Buncee here.

The Super Fun #BeWhoYouAreDay Packet Is Here!

On September 30 we will be celebrating the very first #BeWhoYouAreDay with author and illustrator Todd Parr.  

I shared about this awesome event in this blog post where you can find a Google Doc to make connections and find the Skype in the Classroom event on that day. 

I want to share another post for this very special #BeWhoYouAreDay packet from Todd and Little Brown Young Readers.  In the packet, you will find a note from Todd with...

 ..a checklist for everything we can do to celebrate #BeWhoYouAreDay.  I love all of these ideas including..

...registering for the Skype in the Classroom event, watch the Todd Talks videos, enter the sweepstakes for the day, encourage our young readers to express themselves on the coloring sheets Todd created and more. 

This adorable certificate for the Skype in the Classroom event will be so much fun to print off and give our students and they will really enjoy...

 ..the #BeWhoYouAreDay coloring sheets too. 

These will be easy to print off to send home with your virtual learners or share the link so they can print at home too. 

You will find the #BeWhoYouAreDay Kit here.

We can't wait to celebrate with our school community and all of you!