Year 4 get creative with Whack-a-Witch

We had a good, but very busy, session today.  I am observing that year 4 children find it harder to learn by reading the activity sheets so need more help from me. It was a full class of thirteen too, so I had trouble helping everyone.  Next week I must arrange some experts in particular processes, such as,

• using a variable to make a scoring system
• making a timer
• broadcasting when a hit has taken place
• changing a sprite's costume
• finding a sprite from a resource file.

 

That would give me time for the more unusual queries. I love the ideas this group have though. For each child, he/she is very good at making his/her game individual.

Code Club with Year 4 again

We had a really good, although chaotic session, last Thursday as I'd downloaded the new version of 'Felix and Herbert' and hadn't realised it was for Scratch 2.0 so some of the commands were a bit difficult.  Also, I think it will help if I get the year 4s to read carefully, then tick the boxes next to the instructions, before moving on as they are missing out bits of work and getting stuck.  Next week's 'Whack-a-Witch' should be straightforward and I'm just going to program it on my Raspberry Pi, which has Scratch 1.4, to make sure I remember what to do.  The new part in 'Whack-a-Witch' is giving the game a timer.