Term 1 Week 5

Over the last few weeks at school me and some peoples have been working on cryptarithms. Cryptarithms are a math problem..- cryptic --..codey thing. So the math problem was writing in letters. We found them fun because they were challenging and it was addicting. You need to find a pattern with the letter and then find out the numbers using that pattern.

We also started some art where you need to grid up a piece of paper and then in each square do a pattern with the darkness depending on the photo your copying. You could do lines close together to make the square look dark or lines further apart to make the square look lighter I think it will look really "cool" when we're done.



We have been reading a book called the whale rider, it is about the legend of paikea and the present we had to do a venn diagram on ourselves and the first two characters we were introduced to, Nanny Flowers and Koro Apriana. To go along with that story we also did a retelling of paikea using summarising. The legend of paikea is about a man with 70 children who he thinks will do great, but he has another son who has been rejected from his father and was jealous of his brothers hence he sabotaged the canoe all his brothers were going on. All of his brothers drowned except for one, KAHUTIA-TE-RANGI who called upon a whale, their souls became one, Kahu became Paikea like the whale, they killed Ruatapu (the jealous brother) and swam to land.

WHALE FIN