Thursday, December 8, 2016

Kindergarten Buddies Programs Robots

Kindergartners Programs Robots By Siqi


It was November 21, 2016, 5B (Mrs. Barnes’ 5th graders) and KS (Mrs. Sieve’s Kindergarten class) prepare to go to Glenridge’s Makerspace. As the 5th graders walk in, they noticed there was 2 types of robots set up in the Makerspace and the hallway, the Ozobot in the hallway, and the Osmo Tangram in the Makerspace. The Ozobot follows lines and patterns to do certain things, and the Osmo Tangram is a shape building game where you have to install an application and it will locate the location of the tangrams to complete patterns and levels, When KS came in, the 2 teachers (Mrs. Barnes and Mrs. Sieve) divided the pairs of buddies into groups, but still making sure that the kindergartners are with their buddies, They would make a switch every 20-30 minutes so everyone will get a turn on the type of robot. These robots are really interactive with kindergartners which is why the teachers organized this in the first place, Osmo Tangram helps kindergartners learn their shapes and patterns, and the Ozobot helps kindergartners learn the lines and colors. The whole organization went pretty well. “It went… Well”, well, of course, no one has a perfect buddy that would behave all the time would they??!! Wow!! Lets hope all of this programming helps kindergartners AND 5th graders in the future!!    

2 comments:

  1. I loved all the details you added. Did you think of adding who said the quote?

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  2. I loved how you said what they teach kindgardners. It was really informative. Maybe next time could you add a quote. What was your favorite thing to do? Mine was Ozmo but, my buddy loved tangrams.

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