Bring Bee-Bots and Coding to the Kindergarten Classroom!

Funded Apr 14, 2024

Thank you for being so generous to fund my classroom bee bot project! I introduced how to code the bee bots through an end of the year sight word review game board. Students collaboratively worked together in small groups to instruct their teammate on which sight word to send the bee bot to. At first students had difficulty with giving the bee bot the correct commands. Many students would say "it's not going the right way". I always followed up with "it's only going the way you told it to go!"🙂 After students spent a few days mastering the coding portion of the bee bot activity, bee bots were successfully landing on the correct sight words. Students eagerly asked to use the bee bots everyday until the last day of the school year!

Many students in my classroom do not have opportunities at home to use a similar piece of technology. It is evident these bee bots have made a lasting impression on my kindergarten students!

I am looking forward to creating more bee bot mats to use starting at the beginning of the next school year. I will create more bee bot mats which focus on letter identification, number identification, color words, shapes, and other various kindergarten skills.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Devenney