Cipher Wheels

For this term (term 3) our focus for school is pirates! We have been learning about Cipher Wheels if you don't know what they are they are basically shaped like a tire and has the letters in the alphabet on it execpt for Q and J. Then on the small tire part it has the numbers up to 24, there is also something in the middle to make it spin. Then you'd have to pick a letter and a number for example K and 12 you have to put the wheel on K and 12 then if you want to spell 'hi' then look on the wheel and see, the number on the bottom for example 'H' is under 7 so you write 7 and then the next number! You can use these cipher wheels to figure out codes. The pirates would use these cipher wheels because they didn't want anyone else to know their pirate langauge so it was basically like a secret language for them, they also used it for secret messeges. I wasn't here when they learnt about cipher wheels and made them but I still catched up!

For one of our activites we had to make a cipher wheel but we had to search up our own instructions on how to do it and then we had to make a code. Then we had this activity when we had to hide a crunchy bar for our buddy and then we had to write a code saying where the next clue is for example it's in the playground you would hide the next note there and then more notes if you want or you could just say where it was. My buddy was Kylie we both hid our crunchy bars and made the clues. I hid mine in our school's prayer garden near the black gate and she hide her's on the adventure playground! It was really fun to do but we didn't really have any time. Then we just wrote codes to each other and played around with it.


I really enjoyed doing the crunchy bar activity because it was really fun and finding the clues and getting to eat the chocolate! I didn't really find anything difficult I was just really confused at first. Overall I really like the pirate theme and this was a really fun thing to learn and to do.


Here is my Cipher Wheel!