Year Two children are having fun with Scratch Cat in ICT these days. Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy for children/adults to create their own interactive stories, animations etc. 

You can visit http://scratch.mit.edu/ to see and share the scratch projects.
Simple samples for Scratch to try:
 
In April, the Year Two students have learned how to create, test and modify instructions to control the movements of a floor turtle. They learn to programme the floor turtle to move around an area by using single instructions, a sequence of instructions and repeated sequences. 

Year Two children have pre-programed the floor turtle to follow a tricky path placed on the classroom floor in teams. They have used 'ACSLogo' to draw a path by producing a set of instructions with instruction like 'FD' "Bk" 'RT' 'LT' 'CS'. They also made some fascinating drawing with 'REPEAT' instruction in ACSLogo. Besides these, some students are able to predict the results of  a set of instructions by themselves. 

Feel free to download ACSLogo (Mac) here: http://www.alancsmith.co.uk/logo/index.html. Kids can enjoy programming things at home now.

Here are some of the work: 
 
Year Two children are learning to use a computer graphics package to create a picture; select the most appropriate tool to match their purposes when they paint on the computers.

They used 'Paintbrush' program to produce their pictures for different topics - my friends, halloween, chocolate pattern etc. The children learned to select and use simple tools (pen, fill, line, spray and text box etc.) in their picture making, and understood that work can be easily amended without spoiling earlier version by using 'Undo' or other tools.

Paintbrush (Mac version) can be download at: http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/downloads/
 
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The children have been starting to paint some simple shapes on the computers this week. 

We practiced painting a coloured triangle, circle and rectangle with a range of brushes in Tux Paint. 

You can download Tux Paint at 
http://tuxpaint.org/download/

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    Ms Yvonne Huang - I am from Shanghai, China. Teaching ICT in DUCKS in my fifth year now, and enjoying doing it.

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