How Did Pirates Use Cipher Wheels?

This Term, our whole school is learning about Pirates.  This week we were creating and learning about cipher wheels. I see you wondering how cipher wheels relate to Pirates? Let me tell you. They would use them to send secret messages to each other! Here are some links to know about how cipher wheels work!!!!!!

Read about codes and ciphers here.

Learn some more about ciphers and codes here.

Watch a video about cipher here.

Watch this video about the Caesar Cipher.

Use this interactive to explore creating messages.

The Pleiades - The Flint Boys!

Kia Ora Everyone!

This week, because it's Matariki, we are looking at the Pleiades. The Pleiades are a set of stars the most countries can see. For us, we call the Pleiades Matariki, but in other cultures they call it different. I chose to do the flint boys, it is what the Black God Navajo called them. 

This is the backstory of the Myth, Hope you enjoy! :)

Key Idea #4! Comic Strip

Kia Ora Everyone!

Today, we are doing a comic strip on Jesus' life after his baptism. We had three videos to take notes from.

Jesus is baptised by John

Jesus enters the desert 

Jesus visits the synagogue

We also had resources we were allowed to make the comic strips on, so I chose to do a canva comic strip!


Here is mine!

Jesus was Baptized News Paper Article.

Our task this week was to write a newspaper article about "being there when Jesus was baptized." We had resources to look on as well to get the feel of when Jesus was baptized.

Matariiki

Because Matariki is coming up, we obviously had to do a DLO about what we had learnt with the resources our teacher had given us. We had four resources and picked information out of all of them for our DLO's. I learnt a lot, stuff that I had forgotten like what Matariki means (Tiny Eyeballs) and I learnt new things, like the meanings of the stars.

The Light

WALT: Choose a Title or Image of the Holy Spirit. How can you show to others that you can be the Holy Spirit?

The C.E.R.R. Café!

Kia Ora Everyone!

This week, in Room 6, our class has invented a C.E.R.R. Café! Ms. Wilton thought of inventing the C.E.R.R. Café because it would give students a nice time to relax or eat something if they're hungry. But, most things aren't free...
We implemented a system with "C.E.R.R. Tokens". The red one is for Compassion, The yellow one is for Excellence, the blue one is for Responsibility and the green one is for Respect. We are given these if Ms. Wilton see's us showing one of these values.
So that is how we pay for things. 
The year 8's have also gotten jobs to do at the Café! But not all of them. I have been assigned to a Cook. There is another Cook that works with me but he does nothing usually. Just kidding. There is a also a cashier and a cleaner. We have a cute little fake till and everything!

In my opinion, I think the Café is a really good idea and is really cute because, it is a fun way to make the class happy, it makes me happy when I serve people at the desk because their faces light up! I love "working" in the C.E.R.R. Café!