Hour of Code

Last week these students at Creedmoor Elementary joined millions of other students around the world in the Hour of Code. The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. It is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries.  
My students had fun coding in Minecraft, a popular children's computer game. They coded moves that told Alex and Steve where to go and what to do. Great job, everybody! 

Team work came through for some groups.

Awesome concentration!

 Hard at work!

 Keep working!

Here are our Certificates of Completion. Congratulations!

Team effort! We put the solar system together.

Students in my basic sentence writing group practiced writing complete sentences using different parts of a sentence from the "Carrot Basket". 

Students had to identify which part of the sentence was the subject, circle it and write "S" above the circle, and write a "V" above the verb. We ended up with lots of silly sentences and had lots of fun!   

This is obviously still a work in progress, but at least most sentences started with a capital letter and had an ending punctuation. The subjects and verbs were identified correctly, for the most part :).

Basic Sentence Writing

Some of my students have been learning about what makes a good, complete sentence. Students have been using the cue card below to edit simple sentences.

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