Tech Club 11/29

We wanted the kids to practice typing this week, so we had them play typing games on learninggamesforkids.com.  This was a new site we hadn't used yet so there were some unexpected issues (it  could get really slow, some of the games were boring for the kids).  We only had 4 students this week so it was pretty manageable, which was good because there was a lot of whining and complaining about having to do typing games which is obviously none of their favorite thing to do.  However, it is also something they definitely need to work on so I am glad we had them do it.  I did differentiate for the one 4th grader we had in the club, she was kind of beyond the games the rest of them were playing so to practice her typing as well as her English knowledge I had her create some online mad libs and had her read them out loud to me as well.  It was kind of rewarding because I did feel like it helped solidify some concepts for her (verbs, nouns, plurals, etc.)