![]() I do like to see who has that algorithmic thinking skill and is able to solve the tutorial puzzles independently. Could you add a second Sprite to introduce the poem generator and give instructions? Could you some action or music at the end? With the lists already made and the poems coded during the first session, the second work session was aimed at checking their code to make sure everything worked and adding a beginning and an end. Yesterday, last day before the break, we squeezed in the time to complete the poetry generators. We had a snow day on the day they were scheduled to complete the project. I was concerned the papers with the lists of words would disappear before we had a chance to finish up the project. I decided to jump into the middle of the Code Club World project and have them start with creating their lists and coding the poem generator. I showed them how to quickly color fill with a gradient but they all sort of went with lines of color, which looks pretty cool. I didn’t want them to use one from the library of backdrops but to create their own. The next step was to makea stage backdrop in Scratch. The students worked in pairs and generated a list of verbs, nouns, adverbs, and adjectives in the classroom before heading to the computer lab. ![]() ![]() These students have been doing quite a bit of poetry work this fall so when I approached their teacher about a Scratch project for Computer Science Ed Week, I had Code Club World’s Ada’s Poetry Generator project in mind. Bradley’s class finished up their Hour of Code projects yesterday and we published their poetry generators in this Poetry Studio. There’s more to add but I’ll end this now and post more later!įourth graders in Ms. (Of course that leads students to play other games on that site, but they are all fun. One new activity this year that the students really enjoyed was Google’s Code Lab from their Santa Tracker site. 4th grade maze game for Hour of Codeįor 2nd graders and 3rd graders I posted #HourofCode activity links to their websites. I quickly rewrote this maze instruction doc and printed it out for the students prior to that remote day (for our hybrid model, Wednesdays are full remote days, the other 1/2 of the student attend school). Other highlights of #CSEdWeek2020 include math games (of course) 4th grade math games for Hour of Code 2020Īnd making maze games with a 4th grade class – one work session was on our full remote day, but that went okay. ![]() In the one 1st grade that I see the most, the teacher and I wanted to try a more math themed project – which I’ll write about in another post. They seemed to quickly pick up the concepts so I gave them the task of adding a character (Sprite) and coding it with a start block (Green flag) and 4-5 blue motion blocks.įor #hourofcode, most of the first grade classes got one or two of these projects. For an introductory lesson my goal was to introduce the layout of the app – Sprites, background, coding area – and how to put blocks together. I looked at the curricula for inspiration. I’ve taught Scratch Jr to 1st graders in past years, sporadically and in groups with shared devices, so it was exciting to try a whole class model. I wasn’t able to get the original Scratch Jr on the iPads but I was able to have PBS Scratch Jr installed. I had planned to get to the Kindergarteners during December but I’ve pushed those plans into 2021. ![]() The Kindergarteners and 1st graders have iPads (the 2-4th graders have Chromebooks) so I have been able to introduce Scratch Jr this fall to the all of the 1st graders. On a positive note, all students now have a school-issued device. I have plans to include more coding in the new year. Monday started with my virtual library code club and I had many sessions of coding planned at school but then things changed and we learned we were switching to a hybrid model for the next (and last) week of December, so in the end maybe half of the school participated in #HourofCode. I was planning to extend Hour of Code for the last 2 weeks before Winter/Christmas break. While we are lucky to have in-person classes, I am not able to see every class, every week. This year was different (as all things in 2020). I’ve been making my school participate in Hour of Code since 2014 (it’s 2nd year in existence). Last week, December 7-11, was #HourofCode week. ![]()
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