THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 1 - MENTIMETER.COM

Here is the first in a new series of videos based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this first idea, we use mentimeter.com to collect children's initial thoughts and feelings after reading the book.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 2 - EXPLORING FORMALITY

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Macksey's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this idea, we discuss and explore the formality of the introduction of the book.
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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 3 - DISCUSSING ILLUSTRATIONS

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this next idea, children are given the opportunity to orally explore some of the illustrations and explain the impact they have on the rest of the story.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 4 - INFERRING MESSAGES

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this next idea, children take some of the text and try to explain the wider messages and how these can help us.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 5 - KINDNESS

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this next idea, children explore the word kindness and think of examples of where they see kindness and what it looks like.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 6 - ACTS OF KINDNESS

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this next idea, children create their own cartoon retelling a story where they saw an act of kindness.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 7 - HOW TO BE KIND

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this next idea, children create their own instructional video on how to be kind.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 8 - HOW TO REACT

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this next idea, children take another key message from the book and explore how to react in different situations.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 9 - PROVERBS

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Macksey's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

As the book contains some inspiring quotes, we look at other famous proverbs and have a go at creating our own.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 10 - INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this idea, we look at interviewing the characters to look at what they have learnt from each other and show our understanding of the book.
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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 11 - ABSTRACT NOUNS

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this idea, we look at collecting examples of concrete nouns and abstract nouns and exploring the differences.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 12 - BOOK REVIEW

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Macksey's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this idea, pupils create their own multimedia book review for the book.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 13 - COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS ONLINE

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this idea, we look at linking a key message from the book (not comparing yourself to others) to the world of social media and explore how easy it is for people to change their appearance online.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 14 - INSPIRATIONAL POSTER

​Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this idea, children can take a piece of artwork they have done and add their own inspirational quote to it to make their own poster.

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THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE IDEA 15 - CREATING OUR OWN ANIMATED PAGE

Here is the next video in the based on Charlie Mackesy's beautiful book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I have collated plenty of ideas you can use to embed creative technology when exploring this book.

In this idea, children imagine there is a page missing from the book and create an animation of the drawing alongside the text.

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