Hello! Welcome to the blog for 4th Grade Purple. On this blog you will find links to various math and ELA sites, our kidblogs where student writing can be viewed and commented on, and information about our class. We hope you enjoy having an eye into our world.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Keyboarding

The students are learning how to correctly type on a QWERTY keyboard.  This involves learning the correct placement of fingers on the keyboard, which fingers type which letters, how to hold our hands, and avoiding "hen pecking".    On the blog I've added keyboarding websites which the students can practice with.  Unfortunately, the programs are designed for an english keyboard (at school our MACs have an Italian keyboard) but as long as the students recognize the placement of the key, then the actual symbol on the key isn't as important (ie the ; key is different as we have ç ò @ on ours - but as long as the right pinky finger hits that key when it asks for ; then the program should work just fine for the students).


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