Topic on King ALFRED for year 3 - any ideas? uinique and fun?

[Beetrootccio]

Please??

make cakes but remember take them out before they burn?

disguising themselves as minstrels and learning how they played?

vikings? (he fought aganist them I think)

i don't think that would be enough..this is a project between now and half term - so an hour atleast a week...

He's credited with establishing some of the first schools - how about finding out about them, and what children's lives were like then?

the schools were for the nobility.

yes pershaps she coud be alittle girl (i bet they only educated the boys) who went to one of the first schools

or a frend of Alfreds who grew up with him - sort fo diary

he was one of the first people to translate stuff from Latin as well, wasn't he - is there a Latin / decoding angle to work?
Or a 'what would it be like if things were written down in a different language to spoken things?'

shouts MINSTREL what about my minstrel idea.

so she coudl be a minstrel and talk about their liffe???

this is for dd to do at home btw

SORRY THIS IS FOR DD TO DO AT HOME

make a lute out of a tissue box and rubber bands

oh - I thoght you were a teacher! (do you wnat my recipe for beetroot and banana muffins?)

The BBC schools website has loads of ideas for this topic. Will need adapting for home use, but might be a starting point.

thanks glad bag that is helpful

After he established peace he went on to establish a number of "burghs" or defensive forts. Lots of these "burghs" can be identified by modern place names. You couldn work our roughtly where they went and then mark on a map how many of them could still be identified and have had an affect on the names of places today.

good idea goosey

Just found this site which looks to have lots of information and links.

jackie that looks good.

she is writign a diary as if she is a life long friend of king alf