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.

When my daughter was younger she had a ton of LEGO bricks, and I’m honestly a little sad we got rid of most of them because there are so many fun things to do with LEGOs outside of the kits you bought them in.

I love seeing all the ideas people have for LEGO building challenges, and I have shared some ideas for LEGO games before, but I saw one on Pinterest the other day that I felt was worth a mention.

This one is for those ’80s and ’90s kids who spent sick days home from school watching “The Price is Right”: LEGO Plinko!

For those who don’t know about Plinko, the original was a giant peg board set up at an angle and the contestant would drop a flat disc at the top of the board. As it moved down the board it would hit the pegs and change the way it moved, and there would be different prizes in the slots at the bottom where the piece would land.

This version from Play Party Game works on the same principle, using LEGO bricks to make the game board and marbles in place of the Plinko disc since your game board isn’t flat.

You can really use whatever bricks you have for this build, and while it shows all the pegs the same size and evenly spaced, you can play with different configurations and see what happens. It’s engineering and a game!

And while you’re playing with your LEGOs, make sure to check out this post from Kids Craft Room that includes minute to win it style games you can do with LEGO. From speed sorting to tower building as fast as you can, these ideas are sure to get you thinking about different ways to play with LEGO.

And if you need even more ideas, check out my post with LEGO building challenges you can print out for kids (and adults!) to try.

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