Celebrate Creativity, Courage & Collaboration: International Dot Day Events
每年九月，我们都会迎来国际圆点日。从2009年创设起至今，这个具有创意的节日已经累计吸引了来自200多个国家和地区的超过2000万人参与其中。荟同学校已经连续三年参与庆祝国际圆点日了，今年第四年我们当然也不会缺席。
Every September-ish, we celebrate International Dot Day. Since 2009, this creative festival has attracted more than 20 million people from more than 200 countries and regions. For the forth year in a row, Huitong School has participated in the celebration of International Dot Day. Of course, we did not miss it this year.
从九月底开始，创意艺术与设计部的老师们用了一整个月的时间，在幼儿园以及小学不同年级开展了一系列主题活动。目前，这些作品已经在不同的角落进行展示，装点着我们的日常生活，同时也向更多人传递着国际圆点日的精神——庆祝创意、勇气与合作精神！
Starting from the end of September, our CAD teachers spent a whole month carrying out a series of thematic activities in different grades from ELC to elementary school. Currently, these works have been displayed in school decorating our daily life, and at the same time conveying to more people the encouragement of International Dot Day - Celebrate Creativity, Courage & Collaboration!
今年，在创意十足的个人作品之外，我们还看到许多以「合作」为核心的艺术创作实践。比如在一年级里，孩子们以班级为单位，共同绘制了一幅长卷。他们在长卷上通过对点的创想绘制出了美丽的图案，享受着绘画的乐趣，表现出内心世界的缤纷多彩。
In addition to creative individual works, this year we can also enjoy many amazing artworks created together by the students. For example, G1 children have done their cooperative artwork - the long scrolls. They drew beautiful patterns on the long scroll through the dots, enjoy the fun of painting, and expressing the colorful world in their mind.
三年级的孩子们进行了一个有趣的动作绘画实践。不同班级的孩子们分为小组，在规定时间里完成一个巨大圆点的绘制，并对各自的作品进行小组讨论。由于小组里的每个人都需要轮流上前进行绘制，所以这就要求孩子们团结协作、达成一致以完成目标。尽管合作的过程中难免出现波折，但最终我们看到孩子们都聚精会神投入其中，齐心协力用美丽的色彩和图案装饰了这些巨大的圆点。
G3 had participated in a playful and creative action drawing experience. Children from different classes were divided into groups to set their creativity free by drawing on large dots. Since everyone in the group had to take turns to draw, this activities required the children to work together in a wonderful team spirit to accomplish their goal. Despite the ups and downs of the process, we saw the children really enjoyed working together to create the most beautiful large dot.
与此同时，孩子们的个人作品也展现出十足的个性。像是二年级的孩子们，就首先在一张桌面大小的纸上尽情挥洒创意，绘制了不同的图案，再找到自己最喜欢的部分裁剪成特别的圆点。为了找到最满意的一角，大家都非常热烈地展开了各种色彩和图案的搭配尝试！
At the same time, the children's individual artwork showed their personality. G2 students were invited to create ink blots on a table size paper in their own way at first. Then, they picked the parts they most liked, circled the area with tools, and cut it out. Everyone was very enthusiastic in trying out various colors and patterns to find the dots they are satisfied with.
在四年级，孩子们则接触到了一种名为Zentangle的特殊艺术创作方式。这种艺术创作方式能够让人们在创作艺术作品的同时放松身体、进行冥想。随后，他们学习了图案的创作以及如何在一个限定的圆中创作包含着24中不同图案的系列作品，并在一个更大的圆点里实践了Zentangle这种方式创作自己的图案。创作完毕后，老师们还向大家传授了印制T恤的方法，帮助大家把自己创作的圆点印制成了独家定制T恤。
In Grade 4, the children were introduced to a special way of making art called Zentangle. This form of art creation helps people to relax and meditate while producing their artworks. They learned about patterns and how to create a series of 24 of them in small circles. Then, they painted their Zentangle artwork on a large-scale circle and learned to print them on a special custom T-shirts!
目前，部分四年级孩子们的T恤和圆点创作已经展陈在学校一楼，让路过的人们都能够欣赏到荟同学子在圆点里表达出的千般创意。与此同时，在学校其他楼层里，还有更多年级的国际圆点日创作正在展出。欢迎大家在闲暇时漫步校园，感受一个圆点里能够蕴藏的无限想象！
Now, some of the T-shirts and Zentangle created by G4 are on display on the first floor where everyone who passes by can enjoy the endless creativity of our students. Meanwhile, there are more amazing International Dot Day creations on display in our campus. Welcome to take a stroll around the campus at your leisure and experience the infinite imagination in a dot!
令人兴奋的是，由CAD老师们策划举办的一系列活动还收到了来自“国际圆点日”发起人之一Paul A. Reynolds的关注！他计划在一个圣地亚哥的大型教育会议演讲中提到这些来自荟同的活动；而关于我们的活动报道也已经被发布在“国际圆点日”脸书页面。来自组委会的认可对于我们的师生来说是一份非常棒的鼓励，期待未来更多人继续参与到这个创意十足的节日当中！
What's even more exciting is that the series of events organized by our CAD teachers has received the attention of Paul A. Reynolds, one of the founders of International Dot Day! He plans to present some of our events at at a very large educational conference in San Diego; and the article about our activities has been posted on their social media channels. The recognition from the International Dot Day committee is a great encouragement to our students and teachers, and we look forward to seeing more people involved in this creative festival in the future!
Paul A. Reynolds给CAD学科主任Alessandro Antonicelli的回信。Letter from Mr. Paul A. Reynolds to our Head of Creative Arts and Design Mr.Alessandro Antonicelli.