Showing posts with label #acsdotday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #acsdotday. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

It's Christmastime!


Celebrating an International Dot Day Christmas!  
All the GATE students in Albertville created DOT ornaments in honor of International Dot Day back in September.  This fun day of celebration was centered around Peter Reynolds' book, The Dot.

On the Friday before Thanksgiving, all three GATE teachers gathered at the Albertville Board of Education to decorate the tree using our creative DOTS!  (You might be able to tell from the picture that it was the last day of school before the Alabama vs. Auburn football game!)  The ornaments are made from different mediums:  watercolors, markers, glitter, "good junk", Zentangle designs, paint, and more!  We think the tree turned out well...so colorful!  AES GATE students also donated ornaments to the Marshall Medical Center South's Christmas tree in the Women's Center.

 I am fortunate to be able to work with these two ladies!  Mrs. Thompson is the GATE teacher at Evans and Miss Rogers is the 3rd grade GATE teacher.  We have a great time brainstorming, planning, and giggling together!

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Stick names add color to our classroom


Each year we start with an art activity for students to share their creativity and personality with their friends.  These pieces of art will hang in our classroom from the ceiling all year giving the students a little ownership of room 408.k  Students used a variety of colors and designs to decorate popsicle sticks then they were blue together to shape their names.  The only rule was that each name had to have at least one DOT somewhere.  I want the students to remember celebrating International Dot Day at AES 2015!  Gracyn's name is full of color and DOTS!  #DotDay #acsdotday #Makeyourmark


Brannon painted his name in his favorite team colors! Can you guess who he cheers for during football games?


Alexandra LOVES cats!!!  If you look closely you will see that her name is painted to "look like an OCELOT!"  Great idea!

I am experimenting with using Animoto to create videos.  In the "free" Animoto only 30 second videos are made...so I'm going to create several really short videos to see how we like the look.  Pardon our progress as we try different technology in class! :)

Group 1 Girls


Group 1 Boys


Group 2 Boys



Group 2 Girls


Group 3 Girls


Group 3 Boys