What's Faster Than Writing?

Beth is learning Victorian pre-cursive script.

I never knew there was something preceding cursive script, but that's just me. She came home one day from kinder with a printed sheet of A-Z in upper and lower (cursive) case, which is what will be taught in Prep next year.

So, like any kiasu S'porean mum, I decided to get her started on learning to write it.

However, we have since been overtaken by something even more fun - TYPING!

Beth has been saying she wants to learn to type like me (she sees me on the computer all day long :-p), and Daddy went and borrowed a Jump Start Typing Tutorial CD-ROM from the City Library. We tried it out yesterday and today, after very minimal supervision from me on the placement of fingers, Beth was off and running, following the simple exercises on the screen!

Since computers are going to figure largely in her school life, I reckon it makes sense for her to be adept at both typing and writing well.