Building Keyboarding Skills

To prepare our students for success, we are starting to teach keyboarding skills in Grade 3. Every Grade 3 students gets 15 hours of formal keyboarding instruction using Type to Learn 3. They continue to work within their classroom environments until they master the alphabet.

During Grade 4, the students continue to build keyboarding speed and accuracy. A list of website for additional practice and free software is available for students to get additional practice at home.

Check out these tips for building good keyboarding technique


and watch a video of a middle school student who has successfully mastered the art of keyboarding.

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First Graders in the Computer Lab

The first graders are coming into the computer lab to work on

Rain Forest Math

Other Math Skills

Read, Write, Think

ICT Games

They are working on the Following Technology Grade Expections:


IT1-2:1
Students demonstrate proficiency in the effective use of technology by…

Use of Hardware
Differentiating between right and left mouse click
[Windows] or click, hold, and drag [Mac/Windows], recognizing
and using keys letters, numbers, and space bar,
shift, return/enter, punctuation, delete/backspace keys).


Use of Operating System and Standard Features of Applications
* Launching a program from the desktop using a shortcut or alias.
* Logging in and out of a computer.