This Tuesday MLH had a day all about the famous New Zealand woman aviator, Jean Batten. The teachers had booked the hall for the whole day, so we could work in there. We were put into groups of 3-5 and I was with Betsy, Krissie, Harry G and Mahanga. I was really excited because the teachers said we had codes to crack! I love cracking codes! I have been learning how to crack onomatopoeia codes in my own time.
Our first clue was a little cat tag that said: Buddy, (this was Jean Batten's cat), and J=B. We all thought this meant Jean Batten, but it didn't. After a while we realised it was the alphabet. We finished that clue in about 20 minutes.
The next clue was a morse code. If you don't know what a morse code is, I didn't know either until we did it. A morse code is a group of sounds that add up to a code like, long short, short short long and long long short. This was a bit confusing but we got there in the end.
After lunch we were making buzz panes. Buzz planes are made out of the head of a toothbrush, batteries, lights and when you make it, it should buzz and move on the floor. This was quite tricky and our buzz planes didn't work, but the ones that did work, had a race.
At the end of the day, we each got a awesome badge that the teachers got for us. I got one that said Creative in French. I really wanted this one. It was so much fun learning about a awesome NZ aviator. I really would love to do some more of this learning!
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