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Kindergarten, First and Second grade students concentrate on acquiring beginning technology skills with a strong focus on developing mouse, typing, and word processing skills. Students will learn to change font sizes, styles and colors as well as Insert, size and position clipart, add page borders and print documents. Students will also explore their creativity with the art programs on computers.

Third and Fourth graders will utilize the foundation in typing and writing to expand into more diverse skillsets including Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint slide shows, internet research, comic creations, and continue their development of word processing and typing proficiency.

Fifth and Sixth graders will combine multiple skillsets to complete projects challenging students to research facts, collect images, name, store, and manage file sets, and create multimedia presentations. Students will work with a variety of computer applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides.

Seventh and Eighth graders will be involved in science and social studies PowerPoint presentations, a variety of research assignments, develop skills in graphic and photo editing, website creation, narrated slideshows, word processing, typing and more. Students will work with a variety of computer applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides.

The Importance of Learning to Keyboard: Most people who buy computers use them for word processing. And that brings us to the most important single "computer" skill your child can learn: typing.

Actually, it was called "typing" when I learned how to do it thirty-something years ago on a relic called a typewriter. Today it's called "keyboarding." But the basic skills are the same and they are even more important now than they were then because so much of today's work is done at the keyboard.

Learning how to type properly is critical for several reasons. While most kids and adults can learn to hunt and peck on their own, real typing speed depends on proper technique. And speed is important because youngsters should learn how to think and compose at the keyboard.

The problem is that we can think much faster than we can put words down on paper. Just watch a child struggle with a handwritten assignment. He knows what he wants to say, but it takes him so long to get it down, and he has to concentrate so hard on the mechanics of writing, that his thoughts often get lost in the process.

While we will never be able to completely close the gap between thought and recording speed, a fast typist comes a lot closer than a slow one, and even a slow typist can do it a lot faster and more neatly than someone writing longhand. Learning this skill in the long run will carry students through all the advanced courses they will take in the future.