Christmas Word & Sentence Typing Practice With North Pole Adventure Escape Room

💻 Learn to type the correct way and enjoy some Christmas holiday fun! 🎅🏻 🎄

This one-time class is a short introduction and practice session on correct typing technique to help to improve your typing skills for essays, lessons, stories, assignments, coding and more!

In this one-time, Christmas-themed intro to keyboarding class, students will be introduced to the computer keyboard to learn touch typing, which is typing without looking. Students will learn the correct hand-position for touch typing (home row) and will have the opportunity to try typing all letter keys and many punctuation marks, utilizing all 10 fingers - all while completing Christmas-themed typing exercises with words and sentences related to common Christmas topics, themes, and characters!

**NOTE: This one-time class is NOT intended to be a full comprehensive course in typing technique. Several learning sessions are required to truly build proper typing technique and stamina. This class is intended as a fun, seasonal themed “try it out” intro to typing. After completing this Christmas Typing class, learners are encouraged to enroll in a multi-day OR ongoing typing class with the Apples2Zippers organization to build their typing technique in a longer-term format.

**WHAT TO EXPECT DURING CLASS:
🔴 The typing practice website Typing.com will be used for this class. Learners will receive a temporary username/password at the start of class for use in this class session ONLY in Typing.com. Learners will complete a set of typing practice pages during class custom-made by Apples2Zippers that include a variety of Christmas themed words and sentences.

🟢 Students will have a 1 to 2 minute brain break every 5 - 7 minutes, in order for the teacher to give the students reinforcement of their skills and this will allow the students time to stretch and ask questions. 

⭐ The class will feature an exciting North Pole Adventure escape room activity during typing breaks! Learners will work together to solve a mystery about Santa’s stolen sleigh and virtually travel the North Pole to get it back! During class, learners will also have the chance to share about their favorite Christmas/Winter activities, movies, shows, etc. and possibly play a Christmas-themed online game (if time allows).


**WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS?:
- Students with only a small amount of computer keyboard experience who want to learn the basics
- Students who have learned typing technique in the past want to improve their skills and understanding
- Students who want to learn to code but lack keyboarding skills.

**REQUIRED READING, WRITING, and COMPUTER SKILLS:
- Recognize all 26 letters of the English alphabet (lowercase and uppercase)
- Understand that letters are combined to form words, and words are combined to form sentences
- Understand basic sentence structure - starts with uppercase letter, spaces between words, ends with punctuation mark
- NOTE: It is NOT necessary for learners to be able to fluently read every word or sentence shown to them in this class. 

**TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS:
- A laptop or desktop computer is REQUIRED for typing in this class. (No tablets, please!)

Teacher will wait in the classroom for 10 minutes for students to arrive.