We had a minor setback this year as our scheduled Code-a-thon kickoff date ended up being a snow day due to a severe blizzard. This meant that we had to postpone our collaborative coding session with the OLCS Kindergartens until after our Christmas concerts. Although we were disappointed, we still had other Hour of Code sessions to lead! Once we were back at school, the grade 1s led coding sessions for the Grade 7/8 and Kindergarten students who were here during our no-bus day on the second day of the blizzard. The weather settled down later in the week and we continued with our planned Hour of Code sessions at HES. The grade 1s led sessions for all 30 of the grade 4 students and our 20 grade 2 neighbours. It was awesome to see such great cooperation and collaboration between students!
We finally got to work with our OLCS Kindergarten buddies on the final day of school before Christmas break. Our class taught them how to code using Kodable and Tynker. Their class taught us to code with The Foos. It was a really fun way to spend our final morning of school before the holidays! In total, the 22 grade 1s worked with over 70 other students to learn about coding! I also led coding sessions for our HES Coding Club. That means over 100 of us completed the Hour of Code this year!
Check out the video of the 2016 Kids Who Code Code-a-thon
This is an education-related blog written by Mrs. Leah Obach @LeahO77. Leah is currently working as the Literacy with ICT Teacher Leader for Park West School Division, working with K-12 students and teachers to help them use technology for teaching and learning. She has taught at the early years, middle years and high school levels. Student work, teacher reflection, resources and samples from classrooms around PWSD are included in this blog.
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