Remember: Up, down and home again: only the finger that reaches moves, and it always comes back to the middle.
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Pop's puzzlePop came on the video call with a puzzle for Yara and Nico: a sentence with every letter of the alphabet in it. Yara typed the word the. Her finger went up to t, home to h, and up to e. Nico took the word brown: down to b, up to r, o and w, and down to n. He never lifted his whole hand. The sentence was the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pop counted, and every letter was there.
1
Pop's sentence uses every letter of the alphabet. How many letters is that?
2
Nico lifted his whole hand to type the word brown.
TrueFalse
Home, up and down
Home is the middle floor. A finger rides up or down, taps, and rides back.
3
Join each word to what the fingers do.
1dad
2fox
3jump
4the
Aall home
Bup, home, up
Chome, up, down, up
Dhome, up, down
4
The blue keys spell a word. Which word is it?
dogboxfox
5
In jump, the pointer reaches up to the blank key above j. Write its letter:
6
Circle every word that needs a finger to reach up.
daddogsadthelad
7
While one finger reaches, the other fingers follow along.
TrueFalse
8
A finger rides straight up or straight down, like a lift, and then goes back to the middle.
TrueFalse
9
Number the keys in the order you type the word fox.
f (home row)
x (bottom row)
o (top row)
10
Which word is typed up, up, up, down, home?
brownquicklazy
11
Nico says the whole hand should move to reach the top row. What is the golden rule?
move the whole handmove every fingeronly the finger that reaches should move
Copy and write
12
Copy it. the quick brown fox
13
Write the word dog. Under each letter, write up or home.
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