I am looking for a few Year 5/6 children to be part of a team of journalists.  To start with, you will write short articles for our website about some of our assemblies, including photos on any important action.  If you do well, the job could grow into covering school events and activities.

If you are interested, please email me from your school email, explaining why you would make a good journalist.  Also, write a short article about a recent assembly – make sure you include:

• WHAT? What is our theme and what was the assembly about?
• WHO? Who took the assembly?
• WHY/HOW? Why is the assembly theme important and how can we learn from it and act on it in school and in our wider lives?

Make sure you check your spelling and punctuation carefully – it needs to be correct for the website and I haven’t got time to correct it.

• Do you need a new wall  calendar for 2016?
• Are the ones in the shops too expensive or not quite what you want?
• Why not make your own?

Get a free printable blank calendar from the Internet – you could

• Google image search for 2016 calendar if you want the whole year or, for example “2016 calendar January” if you want one month at a time
• use a site like http://print-a-calendar.com/make-a-calendar/2016 to print the months

Then create some artwork or find pictures for each month – could be

• your own artwork – drawing, painting,…
• your own artwork on the computer –  there are some ideas and tools here
• individual pictures or a collage of pictures cut from magazines
• photos from the Internet

Have fun and be curios and creative!

Look at some example prezis. Here are the winners of the 2014 Prezi competition

Signing up

1. Sign up for a free Prezi account using your school email.
2. It must be a student account https://prezi.com/profile/registration/edu/?license_type=EDUENJOY
3. USE only initials for your last name
4. DO NOT enter your full name or any personal details.
5. MAKE SURE you keep your info and prezis private.
6. By using your school email, you are bound by your ICT agreement that you have signed
7. You are not permitted to use your school email to sign up to anything else.

Draw a picture in Revelation Natural Art

1. Start – All programs –  icons 64 – Revelation Natural Art
2. Explore tools
3. Use file – new, save
4. Edit-undo(CTRL-Z)
5. Save in own folder
   1. save  – Your name
   2. file type –  JPEG
   3. file name – something sensible

Use picture in j2e5

1. log into j2e
2. upload a file in j2e (click “upload” button in j2launch)
3. new j2e5 page
4. insert picture into j2e5 page
5. crop picture (drag top and side blue square)
6. duplicate picture (+)
7. line up pictures – could use grid and snap to grid at bottom

Challenge

• Draw another picture or two so that your border is more interesting
• Use different tools to draw your picture
• Use the grid and snap tools to line up your pictures better

Reflect

What could we use your bordered page for?

Success steps

1. Login to j2e
2. save two pages (Page 1 and Page 2)
3. create a text button (Go to page 2)
4. link pages
5. draw a shape
6. use group to create button
7. save after changes
8. **link to a website, eg  http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/
9. ** Animate your button

Next time, we will create an eBook by copying a story, designing pages and  linking the pages together.  What will make a good eBook?

Mr W’s spiral – see the code

Joe’s spiral  – see the code

Bill’s spiral  – see the code

Here’s a simple LOGO Christmas Tree.

What can you do to change it?