Hour of Code

Code.org is a non-profit organization committed to providing access to computer science for all students. This week is Computer Science Education Week and Hour of Code is part of the celebration of this week. I did coding with nearly all of the grade levels this week during their library time.

In Pre-K, I read Here Comes Santa Cat by Deborah Underwood. It’s still a little too difficult to get a class of Kindergarten students to operate a computer independently, so we worked on giving and following directions.  I had four different stations. There was coding on the move, file folder coding and two separate LEGO stations.

Grades 1-5 used laptops or their own devices to go to www.code.org/learn to practice for the Hour of Code that we held at our school Friday afternoon. During that Hour of Code, parents were invited to come and code with their children.  We had an amazing turnout!