Scratch Jr. is a great option to introduce our youngest students to coding. It has less options that the full Scratch site and lot of easy to understand picture clues for the blocks. Today, the students in Mrs. King’s Kindergarten class coded in Scratch Jr. to tell what they did over the Winter Break. To start, students added a sprite to their project. They selected one of the people without a face so that they could use the camera tool to add their face to the sprite. They used the paint bucket to change their characters clothing, vehicle, etc. Then they selected a background from the background library.

After getting their scene set, student coded their character to move across the screen, talk, and then move to the other side of the screen. Take a look at a few work samples from her class: