Our class is participating in Ireland's Future is Mine. We watch the Microsoft Dream Space tutorials and then work on a different episode. This week we worked on building our own dream home. Next we will be going on a mission to Mars with Minecraft! Other fun challenges are to design and build your own desert island.
Ms Gannon & Ms Browne's Third Class: Beebots We had lots of fun coding with Beebots. We planned a route and programmed it in on our Beebot which is a floor robot. We had fun exploring different courses with our Beebot. Working as a group we designed a maze and had to work out the challenge of programming our Beebot to follow a particular path creating different shapes like a square, an s shape and a h shape.
Ms Bruton's First Class: First class using Maths Playground on the iPads. Numberbonds the Story of 10.
Mr Kearns Fourth Class: Mr. Kearns 4th Class were busy constructing some lego creations and coding them to light up and move using the ipads
Ms Gannon & Ms Browne's Third Class Lego Robotics: Using Lego Robotics we had lots of fun working in pairs building glowing snails, cooling fans, spy robots, moving satellites, Milo the science rover, rubbish truck, helicopter and earthquake simulator. We used our iPads to programme them.
Mr Lanigan's First Class: Last week 1st class completed the Hour of Code, a one hour introduction to Computer Science. We tested our problem solving skills on Minecraft Voyage Aquatic. We had lots of fun and it was a great challenge!!