Jay
HOME KEY (J, the bump)
Jay on the J Key
Now we hop to the right hand and meet Jay, a friendly key-friend on the J key. Jay is home for your right pointer finger — and guess what? Jay has a bump too, just like Fen!
Feel the J key. There’s the little raised bump! Your right pointer feels for Jay’s bump and knows: home. Two bumps, one for each pointer — so both hands can find home without ever looking down.
Can you find Jay? Put your right pointer on J and feel the bump. Your right hand has begun!
Say it with Jay: “Right pointer feels its bump, hooray — home base for J is Jay.”
Fen’s bump for the left, Jay’s bump for the right. Feel for the two bumps, and both your hands always know the way home.
Reading together with a grown-up? A card for the grown-up
For the grown-up: ask one question, then wait. When they answer, add one word to what they said. Tap the button when they have said something — that is one turn each, a circle. Nothing is recorded or kept.
Let them finish it
Say “Right pointer feels its bump, hooray — home …” and stop. Let them finish it.
Now wait. Count slowly to five in your head. Their answer is worth the quiet.
Circles together: 0
The QwertyPals ensemble
Jay is one of the friends in QwertyPals. Each friend shows you one idea by how they act; meet them all and you have the whole subject.
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Ash
lives on the A key — the left pinky's home
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Sem
lives on the S key — the left ring finger
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Dee
lives on the D key — the left middle finger
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Fen
lives on the F key — the left pointer (one of the two bumps)
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Kit
lives on the K key — the right middle finger
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Elle
lives on the L key — the right ring finger
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Semi
lives on the ; key — the right pinky's home