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Activity: Big Letters

Materials:
Keyboard
Time:
30 minutes
Skills:
Keyboarding

 By the guys at todayisfun.com

A big part of being a kid is emulating your parents. It’s fun to act like Mom or Dad, and there are some learning aspects to this mimicry, too. Kids these day see their parents on their computers quite a bit. Of course, much of this is checking todayisfun.com, we understand. One way for very young kids to start learning about computers is to do something very simple. In Microsoft Word, you can open a new document and change the font size to something really large. Then your child can practice typing different letters on the keyboard.

We did this when my older son was first learning his letters, and he had a great time. He said, “Now I’m going to do a lot of B’s, now I’m going to do a lot of L’s.” Then he would say, “See? Just like Daddy.”

 

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