Coding 🖥️
3G has started their coding journey. This is the first year we’ve included coding in the Technology curriculum for elementary students at Saint Maur. When I was in 3rd grade I looked forward to playing Number Munchers and Oregon Trail on floppy disks (the literally floppy ones with the hole in the middle) with monitors that had only one color – green. Now, our students are programming computers by writing the code themselves!
Previously, we learned the basics of coding with offline activities in our notebooks.
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Then, we applied the skills learned to coding games with Blockly, a block-based coding platform. Students took to this like ducks to water! 🦆
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You can better understand the extreme engagement in this video.
Happy New Year, 3G!
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Leaping into 2025!
We are back to school in a new year. There is so much to look forward to and so many happy memories to recall from 2024.
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First Activities of 2025
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Spirit Day and Christmas Party 2024
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