Lesson 6

Popcorn Sentences
Objective:
To locate and identify the caps lock, enter, space bar, and period
buttons.
To demonstrate using the caps lock, enter, space bar, and period
buttons.
To apply mouse and keyboard skills to type I see sentences in
Microsoft Office Word.

1. Open up Microsoft Office Word by double-clicking. Change the

font size to 24. Type name using a capital letter for the first letter
in their name.
2. The students will be typing "I see.. sentences" using the same 3
letter words from lesson 5. Again, they will get these words from a
popcorn box that I hand out to each student (but I will hand these
out after we do the first one together). As I demonstrate up on the
projector screen, the students follow along on their computers.
After we type our name, we press enter.
3. Than we learn where the numbering button is and what it does on
Microsoft Office Words toolbar. We make a number 1 using that
button.
4. I ask the students what we need to do to the first letter of a
sentence, they answer that we need to capitalize it, so we all press
our caps lock and then press the letter I. This is a good time to
identify the difference between the I and L on the keyboard. Than I
ask if we need to keep the caps lock on or off and why.

5. I than introduce the space bar. I ask them what they need to put in
between words, they answer that we need a space. I show them
where the space bar is and show them that that button makes a
space. I emphasis that we only need to press it one time! I have the
students press their space bar.
6. We than type the word "see" and press space bar (i'll ask again
what we need in between words before we press the space bar).
Than we draw a word out of our popcorn box. Since we are all
doing the first one together, I pull out a word that they don't have
in their popcorn box. We type that word.
7. I ask the students what we put at the end of a sentence, they answer
period. I show them where the period button is and demonstrate
that it makes a period. Students than put a period at the end of their
sentence. After the period we press enter and see that the number 2
shows up automatically because we have the numbering button on.
8. Students will repeat this process for each word in their popcorn
box.
**We do this lesson for 3 days. We do not save, we start over each
day. The first day is introduction and practice. The second day is
review and more practice. On the third day we type our sentences
and print. By the third day they are usually doing this activity very
well all on their own. If we need to, I will add a fourth day. It is
exciting to see them typing sentences!