The presentation Principal Tom Fosher used for school-wide International Dot Day School Assembly

2. Dot Day (by any other name)
{not to be confused with National Polka Dot Day, January 25th}

3. What is a dot?
• a small round mark or spot.
• synonyms: spot, speck, fleck, speckle; decimal point, period, pixel
• a dot written or printed as part of an i or j , as a diacritical mark, as one of
a series of marks to signify omission, or as a period.
• a dot used to denote the lengthening of a note or rest by half, or to
indicate staccato.
• the shorter signal of the two used in Morse code.
• used to refer to an object that appears tiny because it is far away.
• used to indicate the punctuation separating parts of an e-mail or website
address.

5. How many letters use a dot?

6. • Everything starts from a dot.
• “A leopard can not change his dots”
• “I poured dot remover on my dog. Now he's
gone.”
• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

7. How Many Flavors of Dots?

8. How many dots in a Braille cell?

9. How many dots on a ladybug?

10. How many dots on BAMBI?

11. How many dots on a Twister mat?
• 4 Colors
• 6 dots of each color

12. How many dots on a pair of dice?

14. On a Giraffe???

15. How many dots on a Pacman Board?

16. Dots on a golf ball?

17. Dots on a basketball?

18. Dots on an NFL Football?

19. How many black dots do YOU see?

20. The Dot by Peter Reynolds