As a future teacher, this book made me stop and think. And
remember. It made me remember all the
times when I was younger, and I said I couldn’t do something. In particular, in math, when I was asked to
explain a problem, and I just didn’t think I could do it. I had difficulty explaining anything about my
thought process. As time went on, I got
better and better at this aspect. And
every one of my new answers that came up, it became a little bit easier this
time. It actually was very similar to
the way Vashti learned about all of the different things you can do with
art. And I know that I was not the only
child to struggle with a similar issue.
For my teaching future, I really like the concept of the book, because
for so many kids, the concept of “I can’t” is so deeply ingrained into them,
they sometimes forget to think “I can”.
Whether a kid can understand the deeper meaning of this or not, I’m not
actually sure. But even if that message
would be lost after reading this book to a class, the children would certainly
have a lot of fun creating their own dots.
-PA
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