Digital Coding in Year 4

Audio blocks - Green.

Loop block - orange.

Speech block - purple.

Direction blocks - blue.
The students in Mrs Sampson's class learned to create algorithms using the block code language in the Scratch Junior app. Responding to a challenge to programme the sprite (character) Scratch to move around a room without touching the red mat and communicating his success to another character, students learned how to use directions, loops, appearance, text, start and audio command blocks to create their code, activate it and de-bug it (fix any errors). The class responded well with some very successful programming to solve the challenge.

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