This week, Year 1 have continued to develop their trackpad skills and we also thought about  what we would use the keyboard for.

We found out that keyboard is used for writing on a computer and that, on all keyboards, the keys will always be in the exact same place.

Our task today was to type our name using the keyboard.

Once on the paintz.app programme, together we were able to click on the tools to draw a text box.  The children were then able to use the keyboard to type their name.

Most of the children could do this independently and we learnt that holding down the ‘shift’ key makes a capital letter.

We then had chance to explore all the tools… we found that you could draw a circle/square with one, another enabled us to fill the shape with colour and one gave a spray paint effect … we had fun finding out what all the tools were able to do.

After our screen time, we took a much needed break in the fresh air.

The children had a good understanding of why it is important to do this.