Print out work. Use a paint program to draw or represent something that has meaning to the child. Allow children to experiment with tools and colours expressing themselves creatively through 2D work using ICT as a tool. Combine text with the graphics by encouraging pupils to add their names using the keyboard or the mouse. Introduce the rubber to correct mistakes.
More able children can move on to using left and right turns.
They can then program the robot to travel around the room or round a floor map. Using 'click and drag' they could sort the data on screen. They could then produce a pictogram and print out their work. Set up the home corner as a supermarket, doctor's surgery, office or bank. Include elements such as cash tills, checkouts, computers as examples of ways of storing information.