Codetastic

I LOVE AN HOUR OF CODE!

I was a bit apprehensive as I thought it might take me a lot of painful thinking. 
I did the block code which was recommended for 6 yr olds and up. So much fun! I am not much of a gamer. I tend to hit the arrow keys a bit hard which doesn't help as I'm often going in the wrong direction anyway. 
My 9 yr old son helped me out at first. Such a sweet boy, he only fell off the couch laughing once. 
And here it is the game that George Lucas has been waiting for.
R2D2's Piggy Challenge

This game has been tested by Harry who rated it "Yeah, that's ok Mum"

A Child's View of Culture

My son's year group are doing a study about culture at the moment. Waveney Bryant - the lead teacher came up with some curly questions for them to work on as part of their homework. This is my son's response to the question - What are 10 things that could never be part of NZ culture. Great question Waveney.

10 things that could never be part of NZ culture

1.Slavery

Because NZ’s would never put up with people being treated like that.

2.Guns

Because NZ is a country of peace and if everyone owns guns there is going to be a lot of killing.

3.Bull fighting

Because that is very cruel to the animals and people would be very shocked at how violent it is.

4.Capital Punishment

Because sometimes they make mistakes and innocent people get executed

5.No schools

Because even though school can be hard work, NZ has schools so that kids can get smart and grow up to do clever things.

6.One Religion that everyone has to belong to

Because in NZ people need to believe in their own religions and their own gods and we don’t mind about that.

7.Australian animals

Because they live in Australia.

8.Being told what to wear

Because people would get really annoyed and we

like to wear lots of different things.

9.Eating Guinea Pigs

Because they are pets in NZ and they are really cute and we have lots of other things we can eat.

10.One person in command

Because they go nuts and NZ people wouldn’t want to do what they said anyway.