Bee-Bots and Boat Making

Date: 23rd Oct 2016 @ 10:56am

We have been learning all about instruction writing this week in Year One. For our first task we decided that we wanted to help Max from Where the Wild Things Are by making him a new boat to sail over weeks and months! We looked at a set of written instuctions and their features, then learned how to follow them to make our own boats. We decorated our boats and tested to see if they floated or not. 

Our next job was to put everything we had learned about instructions writing to the test by writing our own instructions so that other people could learn how to make boats if they wanted to. We are getting so much better at making our writing sit on the lines, using finger spaces and full stops and writing all the sounds we can hear in a word.

We carried on our theme of instructions into ICT lessons this week where we met the Bee-Bots; little bumble bee robots that we are able to programme ourselves. We learned about something called an algorithm which is a special set of instructions you give to a computer or robot and you do this by programming them in. We wrote our own algorithms and programmed them into the Bee-Bots to try and get them to move around our rainforest map correctly. If we had programmed our algorithms wrong then our Bee-Bots were whizzing about all over the place!! 

We have had another fantastic week in Oak Class this week, learning all about instructions and also attending the Harvest Festival celebration at Christ Church in Wharton. Thank you so much to all parents and carers for your generous donations to the food bank!