What a great time was had in the Numeracy class today. Students were offered the choice of working through one of two possible 2015 Hour of Code projects using Hopscotch. Links to both projects are provided here and readers are encouraged to take a look and try these projects for themselves.
Hopscotch Hour of Code 2014: Dodgeball Food Fight!
Hopscotch Hour of Code 2014: Make Challenge of the Fire Bunny
The group decided to do the "Make Challenge of the Fire Bunny option as the video length (11 min 34 sec) suggested it might be achievable in a single lesson. This was a good decision and everyone went home with a finished game ... which is always a great achievement and very rewarding for those involved.
It was really nice to watch students jumping up to help others who'd missed an instruction or got lost along the way.
Following the entry of a series of coding blocks, I was excited to hear one of the girls say, "we'll need to put this in a Repeat Forever if we want it to keep going." It's moments like this that make it all worthwhile!
Another precious moment is watching students testing their project and enjoying their success.
Next week is the last week of the 2015 school year. We're going to do the Minecraft Hour of Code project. Watch this space to find out how we got on with something new!
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