Berkley Community School

 

Here's what's going on in the Computer Lab this month!

 

Come check out the blizzard of snowflake poetry which will be on display in office windows for the month of February! Third graders wrote Cinquain poems and fourth graders wrote Diamante poems which they then typed on snowflakes that they created using the Create A Snowflake website.

 

Students in kindergarten and first grade are learning about positional language and directions. They are preparing to start their coding lessons on code.org. First grade students will also use the “Code & Go Mice” and kindergarten students will cycle through coding centers and use “Code & Go Mats” as well as sequencing games.

 

First grade students also learned about their “Digital Footprint” and what is, and what is not safe to share when using the internet. Their footprints are on display creating a long digital trail, in the first grade hallway.

 

Second grade students will also begin code.org this month and will begin by learning how to give instructions step by step so a computer can understand. They had fun this week programming the “robot teacher” (me) to make different cup stacking configurations.

 

Third graders have started Code.org Course D and will start with sequencing puzzles. They will  learn how to debug a program and fix it to run smoothly. They will have a lesson in persistence which they will need to have to complete the puzzles in code.org.

 

Fourth grade students finished up a unit using Sprite lab in Code.org.  They created their own sprites and programmed them using events and behaviors.They will continue to work with Code.org as the month continues.

 

Have a great vacation!

Mrs. DiMascio