Note to parents: TYPING DELAYED UNTIL NEXT WEEK

This week we got wrapped up in an introduction to programming – there are so many exciting discoveries that the 6th grade voted to delay typing to the week of October 6th.

Scratch is an open-source introduction to programming and animation created by MIT.  The interface is drag-and-drop, meaning we don’t have to write the code ourselves and can get right to making stuff happen. Topics covered this week:

  • Similarities between Scratch and a stage performance (actors, stage, backgrounds, costumes, scripts)
  • If/Then/Else logic statements
  • Loops
  • Initiation of programs

We also took some time to access and explore personal student network drives and discussed the use of the server to save and access files.