Pirates Cipher Weels

Hello Everyone! Wow it has been two weeks since I last posted! Wow and I do miss blogging but I did have some fun in the holidays oh and speaking of Holidays what did you do in the Holidays? Comment down below what you did in your Holidays cause I went to Hammer Springs had a fun sleepover with my Best Friends had lots of Star bucks which was so good! And i also ate a lot of junk food but it's okay! And we also watched Frozen 2 again because it is so good and I had some quality time with my Friends and Family which was really fun! But now I am her back again at school. But it's okay at least I am back with a positive attitude and I am posting really good content now!

So for this term's Topic I guess is Pirates which I found was pretty interesting and a wee bit crazy but it was really fun learning about it! And I still want all of you to be careful cause this Virus is still going around and I don't want it to spread so wash your hands for 20 seconds and practice your social distancing if you are still quarantine and my country is in level 1 and I am glad we are COVID FREE here in New Zealand but still be careful and if you are sick stay home. Like they say Stay Home save lives! Okay now let's get onto the real school stuff!

So like I said this term well half of this term our School is going to be learning about Pirates! And here is a little quick tip on Pirates: Pirates used Cipher weels because they didn't want People to know what they were saying in Pirate Language and just in normal language. So what we did was make our own Cipher Weels with letters and numbers and hide a crunchie bar and put out like messages around the school on a sticky note and on that sticky note we would put the different codes to spell out what we were saying.

Here are two pictures of my Cipher weel of the back and the front and we couldn't add J and Q cause Pirates didn't use those letters:

Stay tuned for more Pirate work! Arrr!

My Culture and Traditions

For Intergrated Learning this Term we are Learning about our Taonga and I think I already explained to you what a Taonga is but here is a little re-cap of what a Taonga is: Taonga means that you lie have something that is really special to you or like something that feels like treasure to you. So if you didn't see my other Intergrated Learning post that is what Taonga is. But anyways for this week we had to think about what Culture and Tradition means to us. So Mrs Lee our Teacher gave us two post it notes to write what Culture means to us on one note and then what Tradition means to us on the other note. After that we sticked our post it notes to two different pieces of Card board, one for what culture means and the other for what tradition means! 

After that we had to answer 5 different questions and we had to answer those 5 different questions on a DLO so here is my one:

My Culture is Filipino!
What is your Culture?
Do you have any Traditions in your culture or in your family?

Celebration of learning!

WALT share what we have explored with our Whanau.

We're going back to Term 3! I don't know if I told you guys about this but in Term 3 like close to the end of Term 3. It was Celebration of Learning. On that day the three senior classes, Room 4, 5, and 6 decided to do like something to celebrate our Learning. I don't know what the other classes did but Room 5 was making different experiences. But first before we did all of that stuff, Mrs Lee told us to go and look some stuff out about experiences, after we did at we were learning about Acids and Bases, and Mrs Lee was teaching us this to help with our Experiments. Then we tried out Mixing a type of base with some acid but it was like really acid that could like burn you it was just like Red Cabbage. It was really cool because like the colors changed but it kinda smelt really weird.

The next day after that we tried other experiments, like one that makes like a balloon really big, one that makes a rocket with just a plastic water bottle and one that is like a volcano. Mrs Lee told us to get into groups of three or four and my teammates were Zipporah and Jorja. Then we had to discuss with our group on which experiment we wanted to do.  But first we had to try our experiment. My group decided to do the balloon one. In our Topic books we had to write what we would want to change or like what we would not change. We also had to write who brings what to do the experiment, then we had to make a poster to write like the steps, Rules, what you need and we also had to write the hypothesis and the observations.

If you want to try out this experiment here are the steps to making this balloon experiment: 1. Half fill your bottle with vinegar. 2. Add a few drops of any color food coloring. 3. Use a funnel to put in half a cup of baking soda into the balloon. 4. Put the mouth of the balloon into the mouth of the bottle. 5. Shake the baking soda into the vinegar. Wait for it to blow. 7. Stand back!

Here are the different things you will need: Vinegar, Water Bottle, Baking soda, Balloons,Food Coloring, Spoons and a Funnel.
Those are the steps, and things you will need if you want to try out this experiment!

But anyways, while we were trying out our experiments, Mrs Lee took some photos of us trying it out so here are some photos:


There are the photos!

The thing that I enjoyed was trying the experiment with my group members and like actually finding out what we changed worked or made it worse and I thing it actually made it better cause it didn't pop or anything like that.

Something that I found difficult was trying to make the balloon a little bit more bigger so then it will look really cool and like you can have a free balloon and you don't need to blow it rally big with your mouth!

My group decided to just put all the information straight on to the poster because we thought that it would be more quicker even though the other groups decided to put there ones on a slideshow first before the poster but I think everyone did a great job!

Stay tuned for more experiments!