Let's Go On A Treasure Hunt w/ The SLJ

Today for the Summer Learning Journey we got to learn how to encrypt and decrypt Pigpen coding. Now, you may be think "What in the world in Pigpen coding? A pig stuck in a pen and you have to code the pig to get it out?" Well, if you guess was anything like that, I hate to tell you but... your incorrect! Pigpen coding looks like this... 

And I am sorry if this picture made it look even more confusing! But, I promise I got the hang of the Pigpen coding pretty quick, and I am sure you will too, if you try it! It's a little hard to explain, but I will try my best, here goes...

Here's how Pigpen Code Works -

Pigpen cipher is a code system and is made up of 4 main grids. The first grid is like a naughts and crosses grid, made up of 9 boxes.In each of the 9 squares there are 9 letters, one filling each box. In the first box, the letters go from A to I, just like this one...

Then you take the sides of the box that the letters are in. So the letters A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H and I will look something like this if they are translated into Pigpen code...

Anyways, for the next 9 letters in the alphabet you will need to do the same, draw a naughts and crosses box and fill in each box with a letter this time the letters in the box should be, J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R and should look like this...

But, instead of doing the exact same thing as last time you are going to add a small dot in the corner, translated into Pigpen code it should look like this...

Now, we have covered 18 letters of the alphabet and we have 8 to go, here is where the system changes again. Instead of a 3x3 box, you need to draw a big ( X ) like the one below. 

After you have drawn your ( X ) take the next 4 letters of the alphabet (S,T,U,V) and add them to the X, like this...

From here, it's like the first grid again, where you need to take the sides of box that the letter is in, meaning it should look like this...

Then, finally for the last 4 letters it like the one we just did with the ( X ) however we add dots, so it should look something like this... 

So, in conclusion the Pigpen alphabet should look like this...

After, finding out how Pigpen coding works, we were instructed to complete and fill out a deck of slides. Here is my completed copy of the Pigpen coding slides...

HINT- The beach is located in the North Island, the initials are AB

Tell me your guess in the comment section and I'll tell you if your correct or incorrect! 

Maybe you will even make me one to solve? 

I hope you enjoyed my blog post! This one was super fun, tricky, but I learnt lots of new things! 

Learning To Walk Again

The Summer Learning Journey challenged me to share a story about a time you or someone you know had to face a challenging time and over come it. I am going to share a story with you about my Nan. Nearly 15 years ago my Nan was standing in a tractor bucket chopping down a 90ft gum tree (she was standing in the tractor bucket to reach where they needed to cut the tree) when the tree did not go the right way and feel in the other direction. The tree slid on the scarf (a scarf of the tree is where you cut it on the angle) and rolled onto my Nan's legs pinning her between the tractor bucket and the massive tree. My grandpa managed to pull the right levers in the tractor and Nan and the tree went flying in opposite directions. Nan was scooped up on an old war stretcher and the ambulance was called. At first the ambulance couldn't find the property (it was pretty much in the middle of no where) and when they finally did, the ambulance staff couldn't find Nan's pulse, but she was talking to them so obviously not too bad. After going to the hospital and having her wounds assessed it turned out that she had one broken leg, with a squashed quad muscle torn from the bone. The other leg had been de-gloved, meaning the skin had been torn away right around her knee, with a puncture wound at the back of the knee. After spending some time in hospital and armed with a pair of crutches and a leg brace. The doctors had told her that walking would be difficult and she may not be able to bend her leg fully ever again. But with a lot of determination, persistence and exercises Nan can use her legs fully but still experiences a bit of tenderness if she tries to rest on her knee. I am very glad she is okay!!! Do you have a story to share where someone has challenged something and over come it????

Australia's Fires

The Summer learning Journey has challenged me to list '5 Ways To Help Australia's Bush Fires'. I used screencastify to record my thinking's. Also I think that I kinda understand how it is to have fire close to home because when I was little we had ashes falling down on our 18 acre farm in Australia, I was very scared.

How would you help Aussie??? 

Indigenous Community's

The Summer Learning Journey programme challenged me to choose two fascinating groups out of the five listed as . . .
-Ainu People
-Australian Aboriginal People
-The Inuit People
-Papuan People
-The Maya People 
After we chose our groups we had to do read a little bit about them on some websites and then come back to our blog and list a 2 facts from each group.
I choose the Australian Aboriginal People and the Maya People here are some facts . . . 
Australian Aboriginal People :
Aboriginal Australians could be the oldest population of humans living outside of Africa, where one theory says they migrated from in boats 70,000 years ago.
Today, there are 250 distinct language groups spread throughout Australia
Maya People :
Maya people speak over 30 million languages 
Despite differences words like sun, time, mother, house and corn are almost identical to the ear. 
There (above) are my facts.
Here (below) are some pictures . . .  

Aboriginal Australians :











image attribution - https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/a-necessary-conversation-reparations-for-indigenous-dispossession,12547

Maya People :



image attribution - https://medium.com/@accounts_66702/how-maya-women-are-breaking-the-cycle-of-poverty-in-guatemala-330c1f352541

NAIDOC

Dr Jessica Rogers is a Aboriginal Australian. She is also a leader in indigenous education. She grew up in Queensland, Australia. When when she had a baby while she was still at high school, it seemed like her education and grade would suffer badly. However, Jessa not only completed her high school education, but after that she went to University and completed several degrees, including a PhD which means that instead she is now called Dr Rogers!

Dr Jessa Rogers became the first school principal and youngest Aboriginal principal in Australia.  At a school in far north Queensland for young indigenous mums and their babies like her. For her work on improving indigenous education in Australia, she won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award in 2010, has gone on to win many more awards and write several novels and books. 

The Summer Learning Journey programme has asked us, as on one of our tasks to calculate how old she was when she was awarded the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award. We where given the date of when she was born and the date of when she was awarded the award.  

Birth date - 7th April 1985 

Awarded the NAIDOC - 9th July 2010 

Here's how I worked out how old she was. . . 

I started with 1985 and added 15 to make it the year 2000, after that I added the 10 to make it to 201 my answer was 25 years old. In the end my final answer was . . .

25 years, 3 months, and 2 days.

My Family Culture

Ned Kelly

Edward Ned Kelly was born in December 1954. Ned Kelly was a bush ranger in Victoria, Australia. His dad, John Kelly also know as 'red' convict and he had been guilty for stealing 2 pigs in Ireland and was exported to Australia. As a boy Ned Kelly attended basic school and spent a lot of time in the bush. At age 11 Ned Kelly bravely saved 7 year Richard Sheldon from drowning. The Kelly family gave Ned a green sash as a thank you, Ned would wear the sash under his hand made armour. By this time the Kelly family had moved to Avenel Victoria. They were always targeted by police because of Reds criminal past. In 1865 when he couldn't pay the fine, Red got 6 months of hard labour and upon release he drank lots and died of dropsy. He lived from 1820-1866 age 46. Ned quickly turned to live a life of crime, shooting, robbing, stealing and hiding from the police with the Kelly gang. He was wanted dead or alive for quite along time. After he was in a shot off with the police he was injured badly because of a non-covered part of leg below the armour and he was captured and taken to the Melbourne Gaol and hung by the government on November 11, 1880 aged 25.