As part of our computing topic, we’ve been programming our own games on Scratch. We used to decomposition to break down making a game into smaller, more manageable chunks.
We’ve written algorithms using sequence and selection to tell the computer what to do and when. It’s been very tricky though. We’ve constantly had to debug our code for errors – it’s really hard so we’ve made plenty of mistakes. But we’ve all enjoyed the process and the children this week commented that they felt proud of their learning.
Here’s a few pictures of our games. They’re not finished yet but you should be able to see that they’re super impressive.
Challenge your child by asking them to explain the algorithms to you. For a further challenge, can they talk about their own games using some of our topic vocabulary: sequence & selection, decomposition, algorithm, variable.