This week we celebrated the Hour of Code (well it was a week of Code for us!) and we used various learning tools to problem solve and communicate together. For more information about coding or the Hour of Code please visit code.org. Here are some stories from the week!
Chicka Chicka Letters
We opened 2 new letters this week and our alphabet is halfway there! We got the letters F and O. The F was a fish and the O was and owl and an octopus!
Hungry Monster
Ms. Coutinho read us a funny story called The Hungry Thing. It was about a monster who eats strange foods like 'schmancakes' and we had to figure out what the real food was through rhymes (did you guess pancakes?). We took turns to make rhymes with different endings and feed the monster in class!
Aquarium Update
We now have water tanks for turtles, squid, octopus, and sharks! Next week we'll make a final plan for the aquarium and then it will be ready to open!
Ozobot
'Cozmo' and 'Ozzie' our Ozobot friends came back to class this week. We used coloured markers to create roads for them to move on. We made straight lines and had our 2 Ozobots race!
Robot Mouse
'Mousey Mouse' is a new coding friend in our classroom. He is a robot mouse than we can move by pushing buttons to give it directions. Mousey Mouse can go forwards and backwards and it can turn left and right. We have to plan, problem solve, and think as a team to help him get to the cheese!
Friday afternoon we celebrated coding with our Big Buddies. We used ipads, computers, coding mats, Robot Mouse and the Ozobots, Sphero, and Dash! We had an amazing time and we even taught the Grade 6s a few things about coding!
NATURE WALK REMINDER!!
Our Nature Walks were missed on this months calendar! We will be visiting the forest on the remaining Thursdays and Fridays!
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