Time for Keyboarding!

                                                     


Our students are now working on a program called Dance Mat Typing which will help them learn the skills of keyboard typing.  In between the Dance Mat lessons, some of the classes will continue to explore safe uses of the internet; some of them will listen to award nominated books; and some will work on math skills on the computer.

Our kindergarteners will continue to work on keyboarding skills as well.  The students are  using games to learn where the alphabet letters are on the board so that they can log onto the computers for themselves in a few weeks.  Learning their student username is very important because they will continue to use that username at Columbia Public Schools until they graduate high school :)

Digital Citizen Graduates!

Our 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders are finishing up learning about digital citizenship.  We have used the Be Internet Awesome website created by Google and iKeepSafe to learn about keeping private and personal information safe.  They also learned about how to be careful opening and sending emails and text messages and how to create a good password.  Cyberbullying and being kind on the internet rounded up our lessons on keeping a small, responsbile digital footprint.

Meanwhile, our kindergarteners are learning how to find alphabet letters on the keyboard.  Soon they will be logging into the computers on their own!