Showing posts with label E-Team Endeavour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E-Team Endeavour. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

The Fantastic Final Friday of Term 1

The last Friday of Term 1 was fantastic and very busy.  Check out all the things we did!

We wore mufti!



We ran assembly where we played ukulele!



We had a parade!

And finally we completed the Team Shower Curtain Challenge!




Now we are all resting up during the holidays, ready for all the exciting science in our Term 2.

Be a scientist - PROVE IT!

Thursday, 27 June 2013

E team - who are we?


E-Team Endeavour Waka.

Hi we are the E-Team Endeavour and we are a group of 8-9 year old students at Springston School, Christchurch, New Zealand. Our class is special because we have a waka, we love doing Daily 5 and have an amazing blog to share our learning. 

Team Endeavour have a waka that we are all in and paddle together to follow the pathways of learning.
The first paddle is AKO AKO is kids teach teachers and teachers teach kids and kids teach kids. Then comes know your target like your writing target and your self managing target. As you can see the next one is show respect.  That means that if someone is showing you something and talking you show respect by listening. The third paddle is work us a team, which means a group of people work nicely us a group and do the best work they can.
The fifth paddle is give our best that means when you are told to work hard you give your best work you can. The last one is be ready to learn that means you have your pencil and pen and be ready. This gets us working and has our best learning.

We love our Daily 5 because it helps us in our reading.  The four tasks and they are listen to reading,  read to self, work on word, and read to someone, that is sit EEKK EEKK is knee to knee elbow to elbow book in the middle so we both can see. 

The cafe board is an important part of Daily 5.  It shows the strategies for reading on the wall.  
C = comprehension - I understand what I am reading
A = accuracy -  I read a variety of words
F= fluency - I don’t sound like a robot
E= expand vocabulary  - I am finding out the meanings of new words.
Daily 5 is a good learning tool for learning to read and is the best.

The E-Team blog makes us proud. We can get better at our writing and reading because we get good comments from our readers. We see how we can edit it and we can share our learning. We can work with the whole world and can have our own blogs. We can have blog buddies and get the best learning. The blog is a good class tool and can make us proud.

From Bella

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

We are Team Endeavour - explanation - Chloe

Who is Team Endeavour and what do they believe?

Hi we are the team Endeavour or we are known as the Endeavour Waka because we are all in the Waka and work as a team. We are all a class of 8 to 10 year olds who have 300 people visit our amazing blog a day. Some of the Team Endeavour kids have their own blog! (Kids Blogs)

In the Team Endeavour we work as a team like we are paddling a Waka. The paddles remind us what we believe.
In one of the paddles we have show respect.  This means we show respect in class. Our second paddle is to give our best.  This means we try to give 100% work. The third paddle is AKO.  This means that we are all teachers and learners.  We teach others. The fourth paddle is know our targets. This means we know our targets all day.  The fifth paddle is be ready to learn. This means we have everything ready for the next learning lesson. The sixth paddle is work as a team. This means we all work together. As you can see, Waka Endeavour is all about working together to get down our learning path.

Team Endeavour is so proud because they get to share their learning with the world and it’s fun to get comments. When we get comments it helps us know our next steps for our learning and get ideas. We can buddy with other classes in New Zealand.  We are proud of all the things that the E-Team puts on their blog and makes us get better at our learning. We can share our Te Reo, learning, home play challenges and especially our writing. Every class should have a blog so you know your next learning steps.



The E-Team Endeavour uses Daily 5 every week day. We have three tasks -  they are read to self, listen to reading and read to buddy. We have anchor charts that help us know what we need to work on and what we need to do.




A very important part of Daily 5 is the cafe board.  This tells us the strategies to use and what our targets are for reading. The parts of the CAFE board are ...
C= comprehension. That means I understand what I read. 
A= accuracy. That means I can read a variety of words.
F= fluency. That means I can read with accuracy and expression. 
E= expand vocabulary. That means I am finding out the meanings of new words. 




So we select good  fit books, we use ‘I Pick’.  That stands for:
I = I pick. 
p = purpose.  That means why do I want to read?
I = interest. That means does it interest me?
C = comprehend. That means do I understand it?
K = know. That means do I know most of the words? 
Daily 5 really helps us become better readers because we read all the time with our nose in the book.  

As you can see the Team Endeavour is a very good class if you want to be a great learner. If you can look on our blog and see what the Team Endeavour is getting up to. (Endeavour Blog)

By Chloe







Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Kowhai meets Endeavour

Wow - we are famous!  Go and vist Kowhai Conversation to see the movie the buddies made on their Monday visit.  Make sure you leave a comment.


Saturday, 16 March 2013

Who are Team Endeavour?

endeavour

 [en-dev-er] 
verb 
1.
to exert oneself to do or effect something; make an effort; 
strive: We must constantly endeavor if we are to succeed.
noun
4.
a strenuous effort; attempt.

This is what the dictionary says but who are we REALLY?
Write your idea of what makes OUR TEAM in a comment below.  
What do we think is important? What rules do we live by? 

WHO ARE WE?











Thursday, 14 March 2013

Team work!

The biggest thing I have learned about building a team is....


Check out our comments to see what we think!


Tuesday, 5 March 2013

How did this group 'Break Down'?



Oops birds - bad move!
These birds made some poor choices, what were they?
How did they treat the new person to their group?
What were the consequences of their choices?
Who was harmed?
What would they need to do to put it right.
What have they learned to do next time?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

What rules do you need for 'Team Work'?

 

We have discovered that there are some rules that make team work more effective. Look at our comments - these are the rules we think you need!

Team Work Movie


Team Work Movie


Team Work Movie


Team Work Movie


Monday, 18 February 2013

Waka Endeavour

We looked at the rules we want to live by in our team. They are not really rules but mostly what we believe in. They made the paddles of our wake and we are all in the canoe together.

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Welcome to the E-Team.

10, 9, 8 .... the countdown has begun.  Just a few more days till we we are back at school and all the excitement begins.  Here are a few things we have planned just to get you eager and ready to return:

1.  Swimming from DAY ONE!
2.  5 iPads in the class
3.  Putting up tents and baking pancakes in week 1-2
3.  Shared lunch in week 3
4.  Camp near the end of the term




Earn huge Brownie Points by writing a comment about what you hope we might get to do as part of our learning this year. Put your first name at the end of the comment so we know the great idea was yours.

I can't wait till Friday 1st February.   Enjoy the last few days of holiday and remember to write a comment on this blog post.

From your very excited teacher - Allana

Monday, 13 February 2012

Friday, 3 February 2012

Meet the Team

Take a look at this stunning bunch - Team Endeavour. 
We will tell you what our name means next week.

Monday, 23 January 2012

Countdown to meet the new team


The final countdown......

Eight days until we meet the new 2012 E-Team EndeavourI hope you are as excited as I am.

We will have 21 Year 4 students, ready to prove that they are amazing Springston A+ Learners.  Watch this space for your personal introduction.