It Starts with a Dot ...

 The Navigators celebrated International Dot Day 

with millions of children around the world.

Dot Day is based on the book by Peter H. Reynolds that is simply titled The Dot. 

You can read it here. 

After reading the book, we came up with our own creations, 

starting with a dot.

Notice the creativity, the diversity, the knowledge base, 

and the amazingness of these pictures drawn by the gifted and talented students who are so fortunate to attend a school designed for them. 

The abdomen of a bumblebee

The center of a flower

The center of our solar system

This one led to a look at pointillism 

... and a quick video called 

Art with Mati and Dada - George Seurat

The center point of the y and x axes 

of a coordinate plane

"to: everyone" ... his gift to the world? :)

A half sun/half moon face of a cat

and its sun tail

A flying unicorn bunny

An eye of a rainbow self portrait framed in gold

(She's going to LOVE doing illuminated drawings 

later on in our study of the Middle Ages!)

Dots are everywhere...

the center of the flower, 

the head of the butterfly, 

the spots on the butterfly 

and the sun!

Giftedness is ..

... a greater awareness, a greater sensitivity, and a greater ability to understand and transform perceptions into intellectual and emotional experiences."      

                                                     – Annemarie Roeper

Stay tuned for another blog on how

Dot Day was integrated across the curriculum!