A robin chirps hello. A hedgehog hears it and toddles over to meet the robin. How could we make that tiny two-friend story happen on the tablet, one step after the other?

Two blocks for today.

One start block begins only that character when you touch it on the screen, not when you press the green flag.

Message blocks are a same-colour signal: one character sends it, and the other starts when it gets that colour.

The clever bit is the waiting. How will the second character know it is their turn?

Watch the board. One character will speak. Then a same-colour message will tell the second character to move and meet them. Predict: will both start at the same time, or one after the other?

With your partner, build a tiny two-character story on the tablet.

Agree who speaks first and how the second character moves to meet them. Open the class starter so both characters are already on the stage with a gap between them.

Build in this order:

1. First character: start when touched, then a short Say block, then Send Message (pick one colour).
2. Second character: start on message with the same colour signal, then Move toward the first character.
3. Run the story by touching the first character. If the order is wrong, change one thing and try again.

Success looks like this in plain words: the first character speaks, then the message goes, then the friend moves. Keep pencils away for now; we write on the journal page next.

Tablets to the side for a moment. On your pair's Investigation Journal page, record what you found about your two-character story.

Note the question you were answering, what you predicted, what happened when you ran the story, whether the second character waited for its turn, and one change you made to the order (or how you checked the order was already right).