All students in Grades 1-5 are practicing keyboarding skills.  The 1st - 5th grade students will start their first Marking Period with a Pre Assessment for Keyboarding Skills.  

Keyboarding skills are a must.  Keyboarding is a Life Skill!  Improving Keyboarding Skills will help the students move through assessments quicker and help them with future projects and reports for educational assignments.

Recommendations:

- Click on Student Resources on the left - There are many typing activities that you can use for practice.

- Go to www.abcua.com:

    - 1st Grade:

         - Letters (Orange)

                - Keyboard Zoo 2

         - Skills (purple)

                 - Cup Stacking, Jump Key, Typing Rocket Jr. and any 2nd grade games     

     - 2nd Grade:

         - Skills (purple)

               - Alpha Munchies, Cup Stack Typing, Jump Key, Keyboard Invasion, Keyboard Challenge, Retro Typer Keyboarding, Typing Race, Typing Rocket, Typing Rocket Jr.

 

     - 3rd Grade:
          - Skills (purple)
               - Alpha Munchies, Cup Stack Typing, Jump Key, Keyboard Invasion, Keyboard Challenge, Retro Typer Keyboarding, Typing Race, Typing Rocket

 

    - 4th Grade:
          - Skills (purple)
               -Alpha Munchies, Cup Stack Typing, Jump Key, Keyboard Invasion, Keyboard Challenge, Keyboard Chase, Retro Typer Keyboarding, Typing Race, Typing Rocket

 

    - 5th Grade:
          - Skills (purple)
               -Alpha Munchies, Cup Stack Typing, Jump Key, Keyboard Invasion, Keyboard Challenge, Keyboard Chase, Retro Typer Keyboarding, Typing Race, Typing Rocket

- Using Mrs. Sendecki's computer web page: In the Resources section, there are many links with keyboarding activities for students at all grade levels to try.

- Online, you can always Download Tux Typing for Kids for Free at the following link: http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/

- www.freetypinggame.net/play4.asp