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Your challenge today is:

• Create, print and cut out a flag to make  bunting for the Queen’s 90th celebration tea party on Friday.
• As a class, put the flags on a string ready for Friday afternoon.
• Find out who is setting up for the tea party and help them put the bunting up

Resources and ideas

I have put a template (Bunting template) including a few useful images in your shared files in j2e.

Words/phrases ideas

• Happy Birthday Ma’am
• Happy Birthday Your Majesty
• Phrases from the National Anthem, eg
  • God save the Queen
  • Long to reign over us
  • (See full words below)
• 90
• Hip hip hooray!

Images ideas

• Union Jack
• The Queen
• Tea party – cups of tea, scones, balloons, cakes,…
• Other pictures to do with the Queen or Great Britain

If you want images without backgrounds, search for png images, eg “queen elizabeth png”.  There are two png images of the Queen on the file I have shared

If you have finished, you could:

• help put the flags on a class string
• help someone else complete their flag
• do another one (There could be one flag on each class string that says, eg “Oak class wish Her Majesty a very happy 90th birthday!”)

National Anthem words

• Log into j2e and click on JIT
• Click on “mix”
• Create a title page first (you can’t put one in afterwards)
• Create other pages with a mixture of
  • writing
  • graphs
  • pictures (you can make these writing pages with a picture background so you can add a caption)

• Log into Google
• Go to Drive
• Click NEW then More… then Coggle or MindMup

Coggle

• Explore the tools
  • Add branches
  • Type ideas
  • Change font – bold or italic
  • Add a website link
  • Add a photo
    • on a different tab, find a photo, save image as…
    • in Coggle, click image icon and look in Downloads

MindMup

• Explore the tools
• To add a new idea – use the far left button on the tools
• Add a photo
  • on a different tab, find a photo, save image as…
  • in Coggle, click image icon and look in Downloads
  • Change the size of your photo to width 100
• Add notes to an idea
• Add a website link

Success steps

• log into Google
• Find Drive
• Create a minmap
• Explore tools confidently
• Return to My Drive to see files

Fieldwork week

Here are some ideas for you to use…

1 Google maps

1. Log into your school Google account and go to Drive
2. Click on NEW then More… the Google My Maps
3. This will create a new map – explore the tools
   1. Add a pin to a location
      1. Give it a name
      2. Attach some information
      3. Can you attach a photo (these need to be online – you attach them by copying a web address)
   2. Add a route – perhaps the walking route you will take to your fieldwork
   3. Add an area

2 Scratch interactive map

3 j2e interactive map 

Google form

• What we will learn from our survey?
• So what?
• What will the benefit of our survey be?
• How will we look after the data?
• What are our responsibilities?
• Do we need to promise anonymity?

Success steps:

log into Google; go to Drive; create a new form; use a range of form tools; publish form on shared document; consider safety and responsibilities; be curious; be sociable

Next – fill out each others’ surveys and analyse the results.

• When could we use this in other lessons?
• Next time/challenge: Combine graphs with text or pictures