Thorrington Year 2 2019

Friday, 22 May 2015

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Coding Club

Coding Club

Every Friday 3.10 pm – 4pm

Year 2 Learning Space (used to be the Library)

Contact: Mr Scurr (Year 2 L1 Teacher)

carl.scurr@thorrington.ac.nz

More Info:

http://www.scratchjr.org/about.html

https://scratch.mit.edu/
http://www.codeclub.nz/

If you are keen to learn how to use code and create your own computer programs, come along for a chance to Imagine, Program, Share!

See below for some of the apps we will be using in Coding Club

2016 update!!
Here are our new robots - we will get these ready for Term 3 2016!!!

For early Coders, here is a fantastic app

- Daisy The Dino

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278?mt=8

we are using this in Timatanga for our Discovery Time

There is also Scratch Jrn. on the ipad and tablet - a great beginners level for programming!!!
http://www.scratchjr.org/about.html

ScratchJr Website Video from Mitchel Resnick on Vimeo.

And finally the full version of scratch - good for more confident coders who have used the previous two apps and would like to advance.

Scratch Overview from ScratchEd on Vimeo.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Last year we found this cool project which has been created by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerburg. We will be signing up again this year once we get a but more confident with our coding - click on the image below to check out the website!