Dot Day

Dot day is an international day that celebrates creativity, courage, and collaboration. Therefore, to celebrate this harmonious day we incorporated our art lesson with a language arts lesson. First, we read The Dot by Peter Reynolds. After reading our story, we were asked to create a piece of artwork that contained a dot and a few different mediums, such as markers, oil pastels, crayons, sharpies, colored pencils, watercolors, etc. After we finished our artwork we used a paintbrush to coat our work with water to see what mediums bled or didn't bleed. Here I used oil pastels, markers, and watercolor paints. In my mind, I was creating a sunset using a bunch of different dots that would eventually combine to form a sunset but I believe that it turned out more as a tie-die-looking piece of artwork. 
Extention Activity: A math teacher probably for the grade 6th and up, could have her students draw a variety of dots that differ in size. They could then use a ruler to explore the different dots' radiuses, diameters, and circumferences. The radius is the measurement from the center of a circle to the outer edge. The diameter of a circle is the measurement from one end of a circle to the other end, which is a 180-degree line across the circle that separates the circle into two halves. Lastly, the circumference of a circle is similar to the perimeter of a polygon. It is the measurement of the outer edge of a given circle. 


 

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