Okay, maybe that's too dramatic - but your students hold the mouse wrong sometimes, amiright? Poking the screen gets increasingly frequent as more students use mom and dad's cellphones and iPads and smart watches and whatever else!
So here is my awesome tip for getting those fingers right on the computer mouse.
How to Teach "Whisker Fingers"
- Assemble the children- Hold up a computer mouse and have the students orally repeat after you, "MOUSE"
- Show picture of a real mouse, such as this:
- Wait for all the "ooos" and "awwws" and "so cute"!
- Ask, "With a raised hand - what is growing out of his face?"
- Explain that WHISKERS can help us with our computer mouse!
- Ask students to copy you. With both hands, hold out the number 1. Then 2. Then stick out their thumbs. End resulting in this:
- Call these your "whisker fingers" and have them hold them to their face as if they were a mouse. Here are my kiddos demonstrating:
- Pick up the computer mouse and model how the two fingers are split on the two buttons, and the thumb wraps onto the side. Like this:
- Go to computers and practice in Paint or whatever else you already use!
The biggest benefit is having a name ((Whisker Fingers)) that you can reference when you see them doing it incorrectly. Voila!
Llama love,
Sam
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