Hour of Code

This week children all over the world are celebrating Computer Science Education Week.  Today our technology educator, Miss Wilson, visited our classroom with a class set of iPads.  Before she arrived I explained to the class that humans create and write the games they like to play on computers and phones.  I shared that they use a special language, like a code, to tell the computers what to do.  Then I told them we were expecting a guest to help us learn to write this code for computers.  When Miss Wilson arrived, she taught the class a little bit about coding and then introduced the app, Kodable.  It's a fun program for children ages 4-10 and we used the free version.  If you're interested, there is a parent version.  You can click here to go to the site.  Several, if not all, children completed the free levels.  It's quite engaging and I enjoyed playing, too.  Ask your child if he/she liked Kodable and you can try out the free version.  Take a look at these future programmers: