Learning to Code!

The past couple of weeks, I have been working on coding with all of my classes!  That's right even my kindergarten friends have been learning to code!  The students have been dabbling in the computer science world and learning what computer programming is all about!  I have added some links to the Library Media resources page, so students always have access to what they have been working on during their information literacy and technology time.  The kindergarten and first grade students worked with Kodable to program their "fuzz" to make through mazes and collect coins, while my 2nd and 3rd grade friends worked on lightbot.  They had to code lightbot to find blue tiles and light them up.  My 4th and 5th grade friends worked with different choices on code.org to learn coding using blockly and some of my 5th grade friends worked on Scratch to create a holiday card.  The students were engaged, problem-solving, and using higher order thinking to get their codes correct!

Creation Corner Christmas Tree!

This week in the creation corner, 1st grade students were given 2 materials, cups and pom poms, and they needed to work together to create a Christmas Tree.  We read the story Dewey's Christmas at the Library where Dewey the library cat helped to decorate the library Christmas tree.  The students then worked together to build their Christmas tree.  There was a lot of teamwork going on, as well as strategizing on the best ways to make their Christmas tree stay standing!