The boys in Mrs. Lawlor’s 6th Class have been learning Scratch since September last year. We do it every Friday morning on the school’s netbooks.

Scratch is a free application, developed by the MIT Media Lab, which allows users create and share their own interactive stories, animations and games. It is a form of computer programming but it easier to use than traditional computer programming languages as it consists of graphical blocks which snap together.

Scratch is used to support Literacy and Numeracy and can help children sharpen their logical thinking and problem-solving skills. A link to the the Scratch website can be found here.

Here are a few photos of our class doing Scratch. We will post some of our projects soon…