Endeavour Room

Welcome to the new entrant, year 1 class. We are a teaching team in Endeavour, with Mrs Belinda Duncan and Miss Alana Oldham.

We currently have 15 children in our class and a fine looking bunch we are too!! We are looking forward to welcoming more friends when they turn 5!

​All children in Endeavour participate in the "Early words programme" with teacher aides Miss Foster and Ms Ryan. 

In Term 3 in Endeavour we are looking at dinosaurs as part of our school wide focus on Past, Present and Future. On August 3rd we went to the Dinosaur exhibition in Hamilton at the museum. We had a lot of fun learning about dinosaurs, some scientists think that dinosaurs even had feathers and fur. We really enjoyed looking at the big models. Check out some of our photos.

​Dragon Hunting

Endeavour class was playing in the sheep paddock together.
We all went dragon hunting in the forest. We thought we saw a dragon with a long tail. 
Mrs. Duncan brought a cage to school, we put bread in the cage.
We put the cage in the woods to try and catch the dragon. Later, Mrs. Duncan saw a real dragon in the cage, we had caught it!
Mrs. Duncan brought the dragon inside. We all peeked in the cage to see the dragon. The dragon had transformed into a toy!

Music and Movement

We have been learning about folk dances and playing instruments to music. In this picture, we are learning the “Window Dance”.

​Term 1 was very busy and exciting as we worked hard not only in class but in training for our Triathlon. Other highlights were going for a swim everyday where we learnt water safety skills,having a visit from Ruben the Road Safety Bear, and visiting the Tahuna Fire Station. 

Shape Monsters

We have been learning about 2-dimensional shapes. We made shape monsters following a list of instructions.

Letter P
We have been learning about the ’’p’’ sound and words that start with the letter p. We were very lucky to have Mrs. B bring in her puppies during our lesson. 

Spelling

We have been learning to spell our names.