Fun Exploring in the Makerspace!

As part of the Hour of Code and Computer Science Education Week, we visited the Makerspace in the Learning Commons today with Mrs. Hewitt's grade 1 class.  We were introduced to the Ozobots and the Bee Bots (some of us had previous experience exploring with the Bee Bots in Kindergarten).  Using the Bee Bots we practiced travelling from destination to destination on a world map. We also practiced moving from colour to colour on the large circular carpet in the learning commons. We coded the Ozobots to move through a sequence of numbers on a 100's chart.

We are honing our coding skills in other ways as well! Each day we solve a mystery message using our classroom alphabet-symbol code.  We also use our special number-letter code to add up the first names of students in the class, word wall words, themed words, etc. Next, we are going to try and write out our own messages and math equations (using our two classroom codes) for others to solve!