Y4 Salisbury book covers 1, 2 and 3

Sep 122022
 

Typing

Salsibury Book cover 1

  1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
  2. Open Salisbury book cover
  3. Trace the outline and the three blocks using the rectangle tool
  4. Change the outline and fill to be the right colour
  5. Add the text
  6. Get the picture from shared pictures – crop and resize to the right size.
  7. Send it underneath using the layers buttons

Salisbury book covers 2 and 3

  1. Open “Salisbury book cover 2”
  2. Arrange the elemnts to match the book cover.
  3. You will nned to
    1. Crop the image = drag the blue squared on the sides/top/bottom
    2. Resize the image = drag the corner blue squares
    3. Resize the text

Finished? Have a go at Salisbury book cover 3

Salisbury book cover (with the reflection)

  • Go back to the first book cover.
  • Try to search Google images for a good image
  • Or, use the image in shared images in j2e5
  • For the text, use Cool Text
  • In j2e5 stretch the text to the right size by holding the “shift key as you drag.

iLearn2

Internet Research – code on the board.

Y5T1 Stormbreaker book cover

Sep 072022
 

New year – expectations

Typing

j2launch

  • Shared files – Stormbreaker book cover
  • Copy
    • the book shape
    • Red bar at the bottom
    • Text
    • Match colours

Y4: Creating a book cover in j2e5

Sep 012022
 

LF: j2e tools

  1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
  2. Open the Salisbury book cover and edit
  3. Use the tools in j2e to copy it as accurately as possible.

Steps:

  1. Trace the shape of the cover.  Do the same for each rectangular block.   Break the problem down – DECOMPOSITION
  2. Finding the picture:  Use 3 OR 4 KEY SEARCH WORDS to find an exact picture match
  3. Copy and paste images from the Google Chrome (or drag onto j2e page)
  4. Choose fonts carefully
  5. Use layers (like a paper collage) = piles of paper tools bottom right
  6. Keep improving…

Useful tools…?

Stormbreaker sphere video:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=17c6qWtFTbxyR4Oob5jG59-uxL6naW2ti

Finished?

Have you copied the book cover exactly?

  • Layout
  • Spacing
  • Colours
  • Pictures
  • Fonts
  • Positioning

Choose a contrasting book cover to copy.

What have you learned about good cover design?

Y5 Learning for life week

Jun 212022
 

Find out about different jobs

Create a job poster

Include

  • title
  • pictures
  • equipment
  • what it involves
  • good bits
  • bad bits
  • skills
  • personal qualities

Or create a jobs comparison

What would your perfect job be? Invent a new job and create a job profile.

Y6 Interrogate your database

Jun 132022
 

Finish your database

  • Make sure you have enough records in your database to ask questions

Ask questions

  • Create a j2e5 page with questions about your database
  • Clone the page and find out and write the answers
  • Screenshot barcharts or graphs and paste onto the page

Test each other

  • Get someone else to come to your computer and answer the questions on your database

Next…

Y3 LF Program in Scratch

Jun 092022
 

Go to ilearn2 website

Challenge

MAke a scratch project that does the following:

  • Ask “What is your favourite shape: square, circle or triangle?
  • Draw that shape.|

Extensions

  • Ask for favourite colour/s as well
  • Draw a pattern of shapes
  • Fill some of the areas with colours

Y5 LF Create an interactive information website with j2e5

Jun 082022
 

LF3 Choose the style of your website

  • Carefully think about how you want your website to look – each page should have a consistent style
  • Choose
    • 1 or 2 fonts
    • A few colours that go well together
    • A layout that stays roughly the same on each page
    • Standard link buttons
  • ** How can you make your website accessible – easy for all people to read, eg visually impaired, dyslexic…? https://www.searchenginejournal.com/make-website-more-accessible/347450/

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

LF2 Link pages and to websites

  1. Create a header that will be on each page
  2. Create all of the pages you need by cloning your header page
  3. Rename your pages by clicking the pages icon
  4. Right click each page or click the little arrow and rename each page
  5. Link pages
    1. Create a button – could be a word, image or combination
    2. Select – link
    3. Type “# page name” in the link and then “ok”

How many links did you make today?

LF1 Explore tools and elements

  • What makes a good information website?
  • What interactive elements could we use in j2e5?
  • How can you inspire your audience to do something asa result of viewing your website?
  • Topics
    • People that changed the world
      • charity – Mother Theresa, Malala, Desmond Tutu, World Food Program
      • environment – Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough, Steve Backshaw
      • inventors/scientists – early cars, planes, medicine,
    • Nature
      • Endangered animals, animals
      • Habitats under threat – Amazon Rainforest, Antarctica, Oceans

LF2 Create a site map

  • Start a new j2e5 page
  • Put your main title on the page, eg Siberian Tiger
  • start a new page and title it : Site map
  • Click the pages icon and rename these pages: Home and Site map
  • Make your site map page a mindmap of pages that you will have on your website
  • Save your j2e5 page as eg Siberian Tiger website. (Make sure you use the word website)

Future lessons/ideas

  • Share with QR code flyer
  • Embed content eg Scratch games, JIT5 animation
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