Learning with @CommonCraft

Fourth grade is making a movie!!  Right now we are writing our scripts using Google Docs on the computer.  Each team is sharing the writing and editing of their script.  Google docs works well for this because it is easy to know what each person in the group is typing and it helps us avoid mistakes.  We are having so much fun. There are so many different things to learn from the common craft videos that we are creating.  You can learn things like how to be a good digital citizen, the benefits of learning to code, and the different uses of iPads. Wait until you see them: )

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Comic Writing

Yesterday we made comics of made up super heros.  The point of it was to learn how to be safe, responsible, and respectful online.  It was fun because we made a comic of it.  It gave us a lot of options of what to do such as flip the character, change its size, etc.  Then, we shared them with another school, Mount Vernon Presbyterian, via Twitter and they shared theirs with us.  Overall, it was pretty fun.

Time to Program

Today we got to program our alligator (Lego).  It was a lot of fun.  It was also challenging to put all of the icons in the correct order for the alligator to work.  We also had to mess around with the numbers under the icons that represent the sounds to find one that we liked and wanted.  But although programming it was very fun, making the alligator was better in my opinion.  I hope we get to build and program more robots in the future.