Sticky-Dot Giveaway
Posted by Diane Badden on 27 Jul 2012 | Posted in: Drawings and Giveaways, Teachers and Teaching
I’ve been second-guessing myself. My original title for this blog post was “Sticky Giveaway!” Then I began to ponder the appeal of a sticky giveaway. Would readers think it was an ooey-gooey giveaway or a giveaway that required some bribing of the blog host? 
Neither is true! This giveaway is all about sticky dots!
Specifically—how do you use this versatile supply in your classroom?
And the giveaway? I have two packs of colorful sticky dots. I’d like to send a pack, along with a book from The Mailbox, to each of two lucky winners. To enter, post your sticky-dot comment on this blog before midnight EDT, Tuesday, July 31.
Stuck on you!
Diane
Congratulations to Ellen and Julie! They’re the winners of our giveaway!
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I use sticky dots for several different activities. One in particular is for math assessment at the end of the school year. When my Preschoolers are getting ready to be Kindergarteners, I give them a chart that has the numbers 1-10 listed. Then I have them put the correct number of sticky dots to the correct number. Then I evaluate it to make sure they understand the numbers 1-10.
I use the sticky dots for several things, but the students’ favorite use is to pretend they are M&Ms candies. They color a paper plate to look like a cookie, then they pull a number card out of a bag. They must identify the number, then count out that number of M&Ms (sticky dots), and put them on top of the cookie. It’s a fun activity that combines art, number identification, and counting.
I love using sticky dots for organizing things and color coding. It’s also really nice to have them always handy for when you need a quick visual. I’m definitely going to be using them in my brand-new classroom this year!!
I use sticky dots for teaching patterns, art projects, sorting books, graphing, and in classroom centers.
Sticky dots are great for organization-color coding.
I LOOOOOVE Sticky Dots! I use them in my preschool classroom for dozens of activities! Math/Number center: for creating and extending patterns, counting and graphing. Also great for fine motor, making games like memory match, color recognition, Bingo games, etc. I putthem in my writing center and the children love to use them to make their own postage “stamps” and stickers. I also program them with alphabet letters so the kids can identify upper and lower case in a matching game, pickout the letters in ther name etc. We keep them in the art center as well for making caterpillars and other sticky dot critters.
Sticky dots a always on my “Wishlist” for parents at the beginning of the school year!
We use sticky dots for:
1. map activities: to mark cities on blank maps as we discuss each one.
2. when all three kdgs. get together for special occasions: 100’s day, Thanksgiving, etc. we have special stations they rotate through in the different classrooms. We divide each of our classes into three groups and color code each group by having the children wear the dot of the appropriate color so they will know which group to go to.
3. to teach the children where to begin writing (from top left) we put a sticky dot with a smiley face in the upper lefthand corner. we do this especially at the very beginning of the year.
The children use sticky dots to make caterpillars the bodies of butterflies and ants people shapes etc. What fun!
wow! never realized how many ways you could use sticky dots - organizing, sorting, crafting — I also use them on my 4 years - we break up into different groups and go to different areas in the room we use the dots to help us know where we are supposed to be!
I use sticky dots in my classroom for graphing activities so we can distinguish the student’s response to the graphing question and analyze the data collected.
I also use black sticky dots after we read Ten Black Dots. My students select some sticky dots to create a picture and then they write a short sentence. Example:
I can make a balloon with one black dot.
I also use sticky dots for our bus tags so that we can distinguish which student takes which bus. Eash student has a colored sticky dot on his/her bus tag. orange dots ride the _______ bus
red dots ride the ________ bus
It makes it so much easier when we are lining up the kindergarten students
I have my students “transform” the dot into something else! Sometimes we’ll do a writing project along with that.
Sticky Dots play an important role in our classroom. We use them to group students, so their writing, math and science journals coordinate with their small group colors. We use them to label our leveled readers. We use sticky dots for lots of math activities such as problem solving, base ten/number and graphing.