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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
New verse:
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Dad had the kids use a program he got at Staples to learn typing...trying to recall the name. It was a woman's name..."So and So Teaches Typing". Mavis Beacon? They liked it.
I learned from a much older computer program. There was no color, and it had the very original name of "Typing Tutor". It worked, though! I have a few bad habits now that I should probably break, but those came much later.
(careful with this one, some of the reviews said this software didn't work).
This was recommended to us when we were working on Jr's writing "issues." It's a good program, not that he's actually used it.
Let me know if you remember the name of it...I like the idea of using a computer program unlike the book that I used in school.
Mrsnad
Hey, what do you know? I actually remembered something correctly!
Wow.
heh...want ta get rid of it?
Does it do writing too as well as teaching them how to type?
mrsnad
I'm pretty sure it's just a typing program.
If you want it, I'd be glad to send it to you. I couldn't get it out before the weekend though. I'm sure the box with all the software is buried under the Christmas extravaganza boxes in the garage.
FReepmail me your address if you want to give it a try.
If you have a library that can get books for you from other places in its system, you could do the classical thing pretty well. Another way to do it is to buy used curriculum. "The Well Trained Mind" website has a sale/swap board where folks are selling stuff all the time. I got lots of the kids' books at half.com and even from ebay! TWTM uses one book in particular as a 'spine' for the Grammar and Logic stages; "Kingfisher Encyclopedia of History". It's gots TONS of info about different civilizations and their time frames. A lot of the writing is done by outlining the articles in that book. Then you use novels, biographies, autobiographies, etc. for your other reading and writing assignments.
You also gots freepmail, mrsnad ;o)
gotta go... he who wields the hammer is home... bbl
mrsnad
does g'nad know?
gee... I wonder why our bedroom window was open...
Too bad you didn't get the Gidget Freak Out.
Too bad you didn't get the Gidget Freak Out.
She didn't like the whistling did she? So it wasn't just me when I had it ;~D
She's always freakin' out about something!
She doesn't like ecurbh's trombone at all ;~D
She was looking back and forth at us like she was trying to figure out what it was.
I got the car in the garage, rounded up the candles and batteries, and the sump pump is working. :)
Hope none of those trees fall on the house!
Good thing I don't play it any more, then. ;~)
been rainin' here fer about 36 hours... ground is saturated... s'posed tuh get intuh the mid 30s tuhnite... we're not expectin' sub-freezin' temps till tuhmorrow nite...
stay warm and dry y'all...
At least this time I'll have hot water and a working stove if we lose electricity.
Mmm.... hot water...
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