February+22,+2012

=//4th grade did a great job today! They worked on the home row keys lesson and felt pretty good about how they did! Next week we will set up our accounts and get started in earnest! :-)//= = = =Topic=
 * Typing!

=Activity=

Today we will begin class with a **KeYbOaRdInG ChAlLeNgE**!!!!! We will see who can complete the challenge in the shortest amount of time, and they will receive a well earned round of applause.

We will move onto discussing the Home Row keys, and will introduce the typing program we will begin this week. The typing program will teach the students an efficient typing method and will encourage them to be effective typists at a much earlier age than many of us adults learned! (I personally remember sitting in sophomore typing class back in the day, listening to the teacher drone "a, s, d, f, j, k, l..." as I plucked away on the typewriter! The typing program will be the same one used by the 5th and 6th graders..... so those students with siblings in a higher grade will have participated in the program already.

We will begin the first lesson, Home Row Keys, together. Depending on how Mrs. Pastore and I are able to work it out, it is possible the students will be asked to complete some of it as homework. I will post more details after our first lesson.

=Assessment=

- Observation of student keyboarding practices

=Standards=

SII B1, 8, 9