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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Free Black History Month Coloring Sheets and…

Human brains are pretty amazing, allowing us to think, feel, create, communicate, move and more. But humans aren’t the only animals with cool brains, as Crab Museum explains in the book The No-Brainer Brain Explainer (illustrated by Bruno Valasse).

This book, aimed at kids in grades 1-4, is colorful and silly but also educational about how brains actually work, with billions of neurons sending electrical and chemical signals around the body.

“Everything we think, feel and experience comes from an electrical relay race, with neurons passing chemical batons to each other,” the book says. “The constant chatter of billions of brain cells creates your entire world.”

The book compares the brains of mammals to those of crabs (the book is “written” by a crab after all) and notes that crabs have fewer neurons and of course are much smaller, but they have separate parts of their brains that control their eyes and their legs. Crabs are also capable of remembering things, using tools and solving puzzles.

Some animals’ brains allow them to know more about their world in different ways from humans, such as spiders being sensitive to vibrations in their webs and catfish having an amazing sense of taste, with taste sensors all over their bodies.

It notes that 95 percent of brain activity goes toward things we do unconsciously, like breathing, walking and catching a ball flying toward us. It also talks about dreams, memory, how our emotions try to predict the future, where brains came from and fun facts about brains. For example, did you know a sperm whale is believed to have the biggest brain of any creature that’s even lived? Their brains weigh 18 pounds, compared to just 2.5 pounds for humans.

Information on what creatures have the smallest brains, the toughest brains, the most brains and those who actually eat their own brains will delight kids (and maybe gross them out a little bit). They’ll also enjoy learning about the mycelium network of fungi, which is like a brain without a body, and slime molds, which are like a brain without a brain.

It ends talking about why human brains are so special because we’ve found ways to work together, communicate and build communities on a scale bigger than any other animal.

Kids and adults alike will enjoy this colorful, silly and informational book about brains!

About the book: 64 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $19.99.

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