THIRD GRADE GROUP STORIES

The Third Graders have been learning to keyboard. They started out working in Type to Learn and Type for Fun, learning home position on the keyboard and practicing typing by touch-trying not to look at the keyboard. In addition to the mostly rote drills used in these programs, we also like to do some fun typing practice. These creative stories were written by classes playing a sort of "musical computers" game. Students started out at their own computer with one beginning sentence in a Microsoft Word document. They were timed as they read the sentence, then added the next sentence in the story. They then rotated to the next computer, which had a completely different story started, and read, then added a sentence of their own. This continued until each student had typed a contribution to each story. Back at their original computers, the third graders practiced editing and using spell check to polish the final paragraph. They formatted the type and added appropriate clip art. Showcased are just a few of the whimsical results of this project.