Young students are learning mouse skills, such as clicking, holding, and dragging. You can reinforce those skills with the following activities:

Activity 1:

• Open a spreadsheet template in Excel.
• In the menu bar at the top of the spreadsheet window, click Insert>Picture>Clip Art. Click an image (duck, cat, star ...) and insert the image into column B of the spreadsheet. (If the image is the wrong size, click the image, click Format>Picture, and choose the Size tab to adjust it.)
• Click Edit>Copy> to create a copy of the image, and then click Edit>Paste to place the copy to the right of the first image. Click Edit>Paste until you have placed the desired number of images in that row.
• Click beneath the first row and create another row of images. Continue creating rows of images, inserting a different number of images into each row, until you have the desired number of rows.
• Follow the directions on the previous screen of this techtorial to create an activity template.
• Ask students to count the images in each row and type the correct number in column A -- to the left of each group of images.

Next: More pre-K-1 activities.