Have you heard about Spheros?
We are so lucky to get to try out these fun new things before the end of the year! They are really putting our coding skills to use!
What have you learned to do with the Sphero so far?
What do you think the Sphero could be used for?
To celebrate 10 years of the coding program, Scratch, and to show off our coding skills to the rest of the school and our parents, we had a Scratch Fair today along with the other grade 3’s and the grade 1’s!
It was great to see everyone sharing their projects, learning new things, and helping others. Way to go, grade 3’s!
What did you do at the Scratch Fair?
What could we add to the Scratch Fair to make it better next time?
Our class participated in the Children’s Choice Book Awards last week by checking out the finalists on Epic and then setting up our own voting booth complete with ballots and a ballot box.
After the count, we had a clear winner in our class:
What did you learn about voting? What are the rules?
Why is it important to do a secret ballot or blind vote like we often do in gym?
Check out our thoughts and ideas about what plants need to grow. We can’t wait to plant soon and get our projects growing in the greenhouse!
The Photosynthesis cycle shows the things plants need to grow. Let’s try making the cycle in Scratch to show what you know!
Also, if you want to test out this simulation lab, it will show you an experiment using different colours of light and how it affects different plant’s growth.
What do plants need to grow?
How are you going to use what you already know about plants to make an experiment for the science fair?
Check out these problems below created by the students in our class! Great work, everyone! You can pause the slideshow to focus on one problem at a time. Enjoy Spring Break and try out some problems when you have a moment :).
We have enjoyed learning how to create our own games in Scratch this winter! Check out the following How-to videos below to learn more:
What kind of game did you create in Scratch?
Did you work by yourself or work with a partner? Which do you prefer?
Inspired by Pink Shirt Day, Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) week, the Kindness Boomerang video by Life Vest Inside, and our study of the “One Smile” story, our class set out last week to create our own kindness boomerang. All acts of kindness were thought of by our class and were filmed in one shot! We hope you enjoy 🙂
What is the story of Pink Shirt Day?
How has the kindness boomerang inspired you?
Students have been working hard to learn how to code their own ping pong game by pair programming. One student is the driver (i.e. the coder) and one student is the navigator (i.e. makes suggestions). Students will change roles throughout their coding time and work together.
We have also been having success with students taking on leadership roles and helping other groups in the class. Check out some of our games below:
What is the trickiest thing you found when coding your game?
What else could we add to our ping pong games?
What kind of game would you like to code next?
There are lots of fun ways we can practice reading and writing. This January we started the Daily 5. Here are some of the things we have been practicing:
Read to Self – Epic! Books for Kids
Word Work – check out https://mrskostiuksclass.edublogs.org/word-work/
Read to Someone (a puppet!)
Writing – Class Blog
Listen to Reading
What is the Daily 5? Check out this video that Mrs. Kostiuk created last year in one of her Master’s courses to show how technology can be used in the Daily 5.
Vote for your favourite station!
Which Daily 5 station is your favourite and why?
Have you read any books on Epic yet? If so, which ones do you like?
How did you celebrate Computer Science Week? We participated in the Hour of Code by trying out the fun tutorials available on Code.org.
Computer Science Week may be over but that doesn't mean the #HourofCode has to be! Check out https://t.co/JPUY8ksgDw #SD6HourofCode
— Mrs. Kostiuk (@MrsKostiuk) December 12, 2016
Which tutorial did you try for the Hour of Code?
How can we teach other people to code?