Coding for Kids
Community Highlights: January 27 – February 2
Every Monday we share the best of the Tynker community with you! From feeding chickens to dancing pandas, we saw some fantastic projects this week. We also saw lots of creative tweets – kids (and teachers!) are having a great time coding with Tynker. Have fun playing these awesome games, and don’t forget to tweet us about your classroom’s coding sessions!
Projects of the Week:
CHICKEN FEEDER – Move the chicken around the screen with the joystick. Help it eat all the chicken feed before time runs out.
Surgery:Heart – You are now a heart surgeon – get rid of the bad germs in the heart!
Sawsage vs Hamburger – A hot dog and a hamburger have an epic battle. Who wins?
Can-Can Panda’s – Watch pandas dance the can-can.
Escape The Building – You are trapped in a room. Can you find your way out? Remember the secret code!
Tweets of the week:
Kids enjoying our Groundhog Day activity, despite the predicted 6 more weeks of winter.
Six more weeks of winter didn’t stop these students from working on the Groundhog Day coding tutorial in Tynker! pic.twitter.com/XWlakijqgu
— AR Elementary School (@ARElementary) February 3, 2018
Cool idea – this school hosted a poster session about Tynker!
https://twitter.com/MsGayTech/status/959856970176937985
Amazing! These kids led a drone workshop.
Some very excited Tech Team members are on the way to @HalfwaySchool to deliver their @gotynker @Parrot coding workshop #stjcpdc #techteamontour pic.twitter.com/vqng6oD6Bn
— St Joseph's Cathedral School Swansea (@StJosephsCPS) February 2, 2018
This literary instructor observed that coding uses “graphic design, fractions, science vocab, collaboration, problem solving and perseverance.”
Coding, graphic design, fractions, science vocab, collaboration, problem solving and perseverance all go in to make their @gotynker projects with @TalawandaSTEM in Ms. Bowers' class pic.twitter.com/0d90awfTYU
— Kari Croucher (@KariCroucher) January 30, 2018
Fourth-graders loving coding with Tynker!
Platform games coding in full swing with @gotynker here at #bsjbytes with our Y4 super coders! #ipaded #edtechchat pic.twitter.com/3S3FFToJUo
— Joseph Whittaker (@ict4school) February 1, 2018
This video is adorable – this child created a cheer for a character in a Tynker course.
Making up “cheers” to encourage the dragon to blast the knight @gotynker #ourBMSA pic.twitter.com/YzccyXDbZt
— Annette Lang (@msalang) January 30, 2018
On The Blog:
We posted this article about “How Coding Can Boost Math Performance.” Check it out!
Our Featured maker this week was JuniorGamerGuy. He’s from Ukraine and loves to code. He also enjoys drinking fresh warm goat’s milk and watching black and white movies!
Keep contributing to the Tynker community! Parents and teachers can connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the Tynker Community Forum. Kids can start learning to code and creating for free with the Tynker app for iPads or by playing our Hour of Code activities!
