Review – Type Kids – Lesson Plans

Guest Review By Shellie Wilson & Arabella.

When my daughter and I were invited to review Typekids.com touch typing course for kids we were very excited as Miss Arabella had been using several different programs but would never stick to one. I as an adult loved Typekids.com it was very engaging and it also sent reports so I could see how she was doing without standing over her shoulder. Which meant I could cook dinner or do homework with the other child.

Why does your child need to learn typing? Here is what Typekids.com had to say about touch typing “Touch typing is the skill to type with all ten fingers and the ability to find all keys blindly, without having to look at the keyboard. After completing the 30 lessons of this online course, your kid’s typing speed will increase up to 5 times. This means that typing text that would have taken 30 minutes before the course will take less than half the time afterwards.”

Miss Arabella had this to write about Typekids.com from the mouth of babes well a 7 year old babe – “Type kids is a great program for youngsters that are learning to type as well as oldies that like to have some fun. It’s better than dance mat typing which we use at school because it’s a lot more fun. On this typing program, you get to win cool arrr-cade games”

Did you like her little pirate talk at the end there? Too cute.

Price – $89.99 for 30 lessons but you can start with the free trial first to make sure your kids are into it.

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Summer Reading Printables and Tips for Parents

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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