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Today's Pangram:

A quart jar of oil mixed with zinc oxide makes a very bright paint.

Type for Your Life!
or
Typing Long Jump

Mousing / Keyboarding

Mouse like a Pro!

1. Reading & Writing Games
   1. Spelling Practice Select a level and then listen to each word and then drag and drop the letters to correctly spell it. There's a hungry purple monster that wants to eat the vowels when you're done.
   2. Super Word Toss: Synonyms and Antonyms This fun game lets you practice matching synonyms and antonyms. Chose the type of game you want to play and then the level.
   3. Turtle Dash: Spelling with Vowels. Fill-in missing vowels to complete words as fast as you can race your turtles.
   4. Verb Viper: Subject/Verb agreement. Click the right verb tense when it comes into the snake's striking zone.
2. Math & Number Games
   1. Base 10 Fun Select from ones, tens and hundreds. The activity also features three different modes of play: Read and Make, Listen and Make, or Count and Write.
   2. Division Drag Race Use your mouse to select answers for division problems to propel your racecar to victory.
   3. Dirt Bike Division Can you quickly select equivelent fractions and race your bike to victory?
   4. Equivalent Fraction Bingo Choose your skill level and then see if you can find equivelent fractions on your card to earn a Bingo!
   5. Feed Me Fractions! Adding Fractions with the Same Denominator. Select two fractions that add to the number 1 and watch the monster grow! Help the monster reach full size as fast as you can!
   6. Fraction Fling Use the mouse to sling rocks at the fraction in the diagram.
   7. Fraction Splat Click on the target type of fraction while avoiding the others. How fast can you do it?
   8. Fractone Click on the fraction squares to make pairs that have a sum of 1... and do it as fast as you can!
   9. Gran Prix Multiplication Use your mouse to move your racecar by solving multiplication equations.
   10. Hungry Puppies: Adding Decimals. Choose your level and then use your mouse to make a number using decimal addition to feed your puppy.
   11. Jet Ski Addition Race against other players, using your mouse to add numbers and propel your jet ski to victory.
   12. Math Lines Use your mouse to shoot the marble and add together two numbers to equal various sums.
   13. Puppy Chase Decimals Compete against others as you click on the decimal equivelent to fractions and send your puppy to victory.
   14. Pecking OrderSelect fractions, fractions & decimals, or fractions, decimals, and percents
   15. Soccer Shootout. Here's a cool online game that helps you practice fraction math problems and simplifying fractions!
3. More Mousing Fun!
   1. Take a Trip Both Beginner and Expert levels. Use the mouse to navigate your way safely on a trip.
   2. Take a Trip: Food Groups Both Beginner and expert levels. Use the mouse to navigate your way safely on a trip though healthy eating.
   3. U.S. Geology Practice geography by assembling a puzzle of the USA. There are two levels of play. The game keeps track of your best time to completion

Mousing / Keyboarding

Learning the Keyboard

Part A. Learning Home Row

1. Dance Mat Typing
2. Online Typing Lessons
3. Home Row Typing Lesson
4. Easy Home Row Words
   
5. Guitar Type
6. Lesson One: Home Row
7. KeyBricks: Home Row
8. KeyMan: Home Row
9. Mavis Typing Tomb Adventure
10. Room Escape: Type for Your Life!
11. Outer Space Fleet Commander (Home Row)
12. Retro Typer (Begin with lesson 1: asdf jkl;)
13. Sense-Lang: Lesson 1
14. Spider's Typing Web
15. Typing Club (Begin with j & f)
16. Typing Course Lessons: F G H J
17. Typing Course Lessons: A S D K L ;
18. Typing Course Lessons: A S D F G H J K L ;
19. Typing Lessons for QWERTY Keyboard (start with Lesson 1, ASDF JKL:
20. Typing Practice: Home Row
21. Typing Tutor: Home Row
22. typingMe.com: Lesson 1 Left Hand Practice

Part B. Top Row and Bottom Row

1. ABCyard Typing
2. Dance Mat Typing Game: Let's Rock!
3. Keyboard Tutorial & Typing Test. Great site to review or learn keying. When you are ready, there is a section to practice composing at the keyboard and then practicing your text.
4. Learn Keyboard Typing. Great site -- 13 online lessons -- you will move through them quickly. This site is great for a typing "tune-up".
5. Learn to Type Online. This course has 5 lessons to introduce keys -- maybe too fast for a beginner (but maybe not). This site is a great review for those needed a "tune-up".
6. Peters Online Typing Course. A comprehensives and well-done program. This one will work for you if you work it.
7. Retro Typer (Begin with lesson 1: asdf jkl;)
8. Speed Typing Online. Even if you have learned the basics, try this website's quick "tune-up". You can be a speed-typist too.
9. Touch Typing Online. If other online programs add new keys too fast, try this one -- it carefully breaks your practice into manageable groups.
10. Typing Club. Begin with home row and then add 2 keys per lesson -- very managable and effective.
11. Typing Lessons. This site does a fantastic job of breaking the keyboard into short, simple lessons. Highly recommended, especially for those just getting started.
12. Typing Test Online. Use this site to check your progress -- watch your skills grow.
13. Typing Practice: Top Row
14. Edit Pad. This online text editor is a useful tool -- we use it to dictate keys so that I can check how comfortably students are learning the "touch method."

Part C. Show Your Stuff! Have you got it? Is this easy? Please open the following MS Word documents and key each of the drills. Be sure to KEY YOUR NAME at the top (were you see XXXX) and then click below each practice line and key it TWICE, returning (ENTER key) after the first time through.

Don't worry about mistakes -- please key each line the best you can. Save each file in your network account as you work on it.

1. Drill 1: Home Row
4. Drill 4: All Keys Learned
8. Drill 8: All Keys Learned
12. Drill 12: All Keys Learned

Part D. All Key Review. You must complete these online practices before using any of the Fun Skill Building links below.

1. Letter Reaction
2. Cup Stacking Game
3. Home Row
4. Capitalization of Home Row Keys using the Shift Key
5. Top Row Keys
6. Bottom Row Keys
7. Top & Bottom Row Keys
8. Two Letter Combinations
9. Three Letter Combinations
10. Left Hand Practice
11. Right Hand Practice
12. TypingTest.com - Complete a Typing Test in 60 Seconds!

Part E. Fun Skill Building (only after learning all keys and the "touch method". All links with a sound icon can only be used with MUTE, earphones or headphones.

1. Alpha Munchies
2. Alpha Rain
3. Balloon Typing Game
4. Candy Typing
5. Desert Typing Racer
6. Friendly Letter Creator. Try this kewl letter wizard
7. Frogs Are Off Their Diet
8. Kayak Game
9. Keying Challenge: One Minute Typing Test
10. Martian City Defender
11. Meteor Typing Blast
12. Rapid Typing
13. Outer Space Fleet Commander
14. Save the Saleboat Race
15. Trick or Type (Starts with Home Row)
16. Typing Attack
17. Typing Band
18. Typing of the Ghosts
19. Typing Rocket Junior
20. Typing Rockets Major League
21. Typing Tidepool
22. War of the Words (Starts with letters and then moves to words)

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