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Computers are fantastically useful things, but learning to use them can be difficult.
Every Wednesday I teach a computer class for elementary students, and each of them has made so much progress I`m blown away.
`M` is a proud student who doesn`t like to admit she needs help, but she has slowly warmed up to asking me for hints and ideas, and because of this she has been able to reach challenge levels with fun activities she would have otherwise missed, and these challenges have improved her typing a lot! She used to have a lot of trouble matching upper and lower case letters together or finding them on her keyboard, but now she is getting almost perfect scores on typing challenges.
next to her is `S` who is a wonderfully creative student but isn`t fond of Writing, she especially loves music activities and so we have agreed that if she can get a full score on writing challenges, she gets to play the music game as many times as she wants, she still has trouble matching some letters, but she is showing a lot of progress and looks forward to classes.
after that is `Y1` and `Y2`, Y1 has built an impressive vocabulary very quickly this year and has a fantastic memory, I glance at his notebook sometimes and see page after page after page of words, in phonic groups, or grouped by meaning. and any Spelling challenge that comes up, he completely aces, getting perfect score in typing challenges on the highest difficulty.
Y2 is clever and sweet, she is quick to understand instructions and excellent at writing, but reading still challenges her a lot, so I have been pushing her to focus on reading the instructions out loud and working with her on pronunciation, she has blown me away in the Geography challenge, pulling together some very long, difficult to pronounce country and city names.
All in all, the group is absolutely wonderful, they`re energetic and come with their own challenges, but each works incredibly hard to show what they can do.
-Jordan Sensei
Every Wednesday I teach a computer class for elementary students, and each of them has made so much progress I`m blown away.
`M` is a proud student who doesn`t like to admit she needs help, but she has slowly warmed up to asking me for hints and ideas, and because of this she has been able to reach challenge levels with fun activities she would have otherwise missed, and these challenges have improved her typing a lot! She used to have a lot of trouble matching upper and lower case letters together or finding them on her keyboard, but now she is getting almost perfect scores on typing challenges.
next to her is `S` who is a wonderfully creative student but isn`t fond of Writing, she especially loves music activities and so we have agreed that if she can get a full score on writing challenges, she gets to play the music game as many times as she wants, she still has trouble matching some letters, but she is showing a lot of progress and looks forward to classes.
after that is `Y1` and `Y2`, Y1 has built an impressive vocabulary very quickly this year and has a fantastic memory, I glance at his notebook sometimes and see page after page after page of words, in phonic groups, or grouped by meaning. and any Spelling challenge that comes up, he completely aces, getting perfect score in typing challenges on the highest difficulty.
Y2 is clever and sweet, she is quick to understand instructions and excellent at writing, but reading still challenges her a lot, so I have been pushing her to focus on reading the instructions out loud and working with her on pronunciation, she has blown me away in the Geography challenge, pulling together some very long, difficult to pronounce country and city names.
All in all, the group is absolutely wonderful, they`re energetic and come with their own challenges, but each works incredibly hard to show what they can do.
-Jordan Sensei