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FREE ScratchJr Activities, Curriculum and Assessments

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FREE ScratchJr Activities, Curriculum and Assessments

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With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games.

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Tiny Travellers: Adventures on Code Island

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Tiny Travellers: Adventures on Code Island

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Get your passport ready - we're embarking on an adventure in coding and robotics! In this course for preschoolers, tangible (non-screen) programming and basic programming converge in an imaginative learning journey that'll teach kids about collaboration and team work along the way.

Suitable follow on course to Bubs & Bees: Buzz with Beebot & ScratchJr

Explore the possibilities of code and robotics with Sammy the robot and Hopscotch, a bite-sized coding platform for kids

A combination of tangible and on-screen programming that'll prepare kids to take on block-based programming with Scratch

Get your passport ready for the next stage of your learning adventure!

In Tiny Travellers, kids discover new worlds in coding and robotics through a fun-filled combination of physical and on-screen challenges and activities.

Preschoolers are an energetic bunch.

Through unplugged activities we leverage the power of kinesthetic learning to channel that energy towards a play-based approach to learning about the world of tech.
With the help of their new friend, the award-winning Sammy the Robot, kids get building and programming together to help him overcome challenges and perform quests on Code Island.

Weaving in construction with concepts like sequencing - kids learn about programming concepts hands-on; with content interspersed with play, teamwork and inquiry, there's never a dull moment on Code Island.

Next, kids will be introduced to Hopscotch, a bite-sized block-based coding platform that allows kids to explore applying their imagination to code.

In acclimatising kids to a new programming environment and gradually building their literacy, they'll create their own projects applying the tangible programming concepts they've learned, like conditionals, loops, and sequencing.

By the end of class, kids will not only have made a new robot friend and created their own animation or game they can share with their friends and family, but they'll be all set to take on the world of Scratch and block-based coding.

Basic coding, building, and robotics through a synergistic, thematic combination of tangible and on-screen activities

Inspire confidence and familiarity with code by applying programming concepts with Hopscotch and Sammy the Robot

Use what you've learned to navigate fun challenges and quests around Code Island, developing important soft skills like teamwork, collaboration and communication along the way!

No lectures. No memorisation. No ONE right answer. Like real life, we're all about trying things out yourself, failing, figuring what went wrong & trying again. These are the skills & mindset that will last a lifetime and how we learn in real life. Let's get kids to learn how to learn. Because the kids who learn to learn become curious, inventive, resourceful human beings who solve real world problems to make a meaningful impact.

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Tiny Travellers: Adventures on Code Island | Saturday Kids

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Get your passport ready - we're embarking on an adventure in coding and robotics! In this course for preschoolers, tangible (non-screen) programming and basic programming converge in an imaginative learning journey that'll teach kids about collaboration and team work along the way.

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Think of what we teach them during the course as tools in a toolbox. They can now use these tools to build even more complicated and interesting things.

Below are links to some great learning resources that will allow you to take what they have learnt with us much further, as well as the recommended follow-on courses at Saturday Kids.

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Design Thinking Story Challenge

Identify and Empathise with Problems introduced during a storytelling session

Devise Creative Solutions to solve the identified problems

Create the Solution on Scratch Junior

Show and Tell

Project Presentation and Showcase

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Which activity was the most fun?

Was it fun programming your class?

What is broadcast?

Can you give an analogy of broadcast from everyday life?

How does the maze game work?

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Get your child to teach and play with you the following activities done in class:

Explore real life examples of broadcast

Do online research about debugging and play games to practice more: https://studio.code.org/s/course1/stage/5/puzzle/1

ScratchJr project

Recap about Scratch Junior blocks: Start on Message, Send Message via block descriptions at https://www.scratchjr.org/learn/blocks

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Today your child has learnt the following:

Strengthening Understanding about BeeBot Directional Commands: Control the Robot Class

Recap BeeBot Commands: BeeBot Worksheet Recap III

Work together to create and complete BeeBot Challenges: Team Challenge

Inspecting, Testing and Debugging

Introduction to Broadcast: Sending and Receiving messages between Sprites

Scratch Junior project: Maze Game

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Which activity was the most fun?

What does Pause/Wait do?

What was 1 problem you faced when programming BeeBot?

Which Scratch Junior project did you like the most?

Which triggers did you use in the Soccer Project?

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Get your child to teach and play with you the following activities done in class:

Dance Freeze

Pretend to be a spoilt robot and let your child inspect and correct your movements

Play a modified poison ball game where there is a forfeit action when you touch the ball.

ScratchJr projects

Recap about Scratch Junior blocks: Start On Tap, When Bumped, Wait via block descriptions at https://www.scratchjr.org/learn/blocks

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Today your child has learnt the following:

Introduction to BeeBot Function: Pause

Planning and sequencing with Mini BeeBot: Worksheet Recap II

Practising more complicated sequence in BeeBot Challenge: Avoid the hungry Bear while collecting honey and going Home!

Coding in Sequence with Coding Awbie II

Introduction to Event Triggers: Start On Tap, Start on Bump

Introduction to Control: Wait

Scratch Junior projects: Simple Conversation/DoReMi/Boo, Tapping Game, Soccer with Friends

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Which activity was the most fun?

What was 1 problem you faced when programming BeeBot?

Where is your left and right?

Which Scratch Junior project did you like the most?

What are examples of some Looks blocks? (Say, Grow/Shrink/Reset Size, Hide/Show)

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Get your child to teach and play with you the following activities done in class:

Hokey Pokey song

Pretend to be a robot (with Left and Right and more Complicated Sequences)

ScratchJr projects

Recreate the Rocket Launcher on Scratch Junior

Recap about Scratch Junior blocks: Looks drawer and Go to Page block via block descriptions at https://www.scratchjr.org/learn/blocks

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Today your child has learnt the following:

More Directional Commands: Left and Right

Planning and sequencing with Mini BeeBot: Worksheet Recap I

Practicing sequencing commands in BeeBot Challenge: Home Sweet Home

Coding in Sequence with Coding Awbie I

Introduction to Looks drawer: Grow & Shrink & Reset Size, Hide & Show, Say

Introduction to End drawer: Go to Page

Scratch Junior projects: Heartbeat, Blinking star/Hide & seek, Rocket Launcher, Own project

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Which activity was the most fun?

How does a robot know what to do?

Which Scratch Junior project did you like the most?

What are 2 types of loops that you learnt today? (Repeat, Forever)

What are some blue blocks you remember using? What do they do?

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Get your child to teach and play with you the following activities done in class:

Jumbled Head Shoulders Knees and Toes

Pretend to be BeeBot and move according to BeeBot's Functions

Robot Art Project (If you have a robot at home, you can attach a marker to the back of the robot and let the robot move to create its own art, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArgCB0AmQc)

Sing the BeeBot Song

Recap about Scratch Junior: Interface, Paint Editor and various Block Descriptions via https://www.scratchjr.org/learn/interface

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Today your child has learnt the following:

Introduction to Programming and Sequencing

Introduction to BeeBot and its Functions: Forward, Backward, Go and Clear

Beebot Challenge: Find a Flower with BeeBot

Practising Sequencing and getting creative with BeeBot Art Project

Introduction to Scratch Junior: Interface and Basic Commands

Introduction to Scratch Junior Blocks & Concepts: Motion blocks, Start on Green Flag, Repeat & Forever

Scratch Junior projects: Flying through the Sky, Under the Sea

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Bubs & Bees: Buzz with Beebot & Scratch Jr

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Bubs & Bees: Buzz with Beebot & Scratch Jr

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In this course, children embark on a journey to learn programming through coding BeeBot and their own animations with Scratch Jr. They will also get to work together to create and complete challenges involving Beebot!

Each day's lesson structure is broken down and summarized into columns so parents have a better idea of what their children learnt on each day.

We've also included 2 sections "Things you can do with your child" and "Questions to ask your kid" to help you learn alongside your kid and to help them share with you what they've learnt during the course!

The "Taking it further" column provides parents with information on what their children can do with the knowledge and skills they have acquired at this camp.

Feedback, suggestions or any comments? Email us at hello@saturdaykids.com.