The dot activities eyfs

Fantastic dot activities to go along with the book "The Dot" by Peter Reynolds. STEAM inspired projects perfect for young kids.

Encourage confidence & determination in your elementary students with these growth mindset activities using the book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds.

Happy International Dot Day! We had a blast celebrating today in our classroom. Read on to find out about all the different things we did to celebrate. I had sent home a note asking the children to come dressed in dots and they did not disappoint. This group of girls were covered in dots. How cute is this little sweeties hair? Her mom used M&M barrettes and used cupcake liners to make dots around her buns. It was just too cute. One of my little boys came with orange dots all over his face…

Handwriting has never been easy to teach to kindergartners, but it is in the Common Core Standards that they learn how to print letters correctly. Each year I have tried through the traditional ways of working on fine motor skills the first half and then formal handwriting sheets the second half of the year. It never worked so this year I tried something new... An inquiry about lines! I asked the kids what kind of lines they knew of. At first they drew straight lines, but then started to…

Handwriting has never been easy to teach to kindergartners, but it is in the Common Core Standards that they learn how to print letters correctly. Each year I have tried through the traditional ways of working on fine motor skills the first half and then formal handwriting sheets the second half of the year. It never worked so this year I tried something new... An inquiry about lines! I asked the kids what kind of lines they knew of. At first they drew straight lines, but then started to…

Alice Miles - EYFS teacher on Instagram: "🌈💧 colour mixing activity 💧🌈 The children used the pipettes to mix colours in the ice trays. They loved this colour mixing experiment activity and made so many different colours! 🥰 #tufftrayactivities #tufftrayinspiration #tufftray #tufftrayplay #tufftrayideas #colour #colours #colourmixing #color #experiment #explore #ead #eyfsinspiration #eyfsteachersofinstagram #eyfsteacher #eyfslearning #eyfsks1followloop⭐️ #eyfsactivities #eyfsideas…

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"International Dot Day", a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration, began when teacher Terry Shay introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds’ book The Dot on September 15, 2009. "The Dot" is the story of a teacher who challenges a doubting student to trust in her abilities to “make her mark”. What begins with a dot on a piece of paper becomes a breakthrough in confidence, which has gone on to inspire countless children and adults around the globe. To celebrate, each…

Every year on September 15, innovative educators around the world celebrate International Dot Day by making time to encourage their students’ creativity. We participated by making our mark at our school too. The dot above was created by a kindergartner. I think it's PERFECTION! This is one of the dot displays in our school. Fourth grade created a collaborative dot. Each student got 1/4 of a dot and then we put all of the pieces together. They loved this! Dot Day was inspired by The Dot…