Can your child type? Without knowing how to type, entering commands into some computer would be a journey. Well, every journey starts with the first steps.
Those initial steps involve mastering the keys on the keyboard. How to place your fingers on the a, s, d, f and then the j, k, l and ; keys.
School is now on holidays, but for the above reasons, I decided to introduce typing practice before any other practical work on the computer. The class was fun. Everyone was nervous. I had to draw the ten fingers on the board and keep asking the kids them to go it one after the other.
First the letter A. We did capital A’s and then small a’s. Then the letter J; both capitals and smalls. Then two letter words with A and J. The thirty minutes journey was really an instruction.
They all loved it.
We then moved on to the letters S, and K, both capitals and small letters. After that, I wrapped it up with ASDF and JKL; Just that first line on the keyboard.
The results: 6 words per minutes (WPM) on average for the three kids.
My target: 25 WPM for the kids before they start on Logo turtle graphics where the real fun is. I believe that should be probably about June of next year.
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