Monthly Archives: January 2011
Rotary Club Donates Dictionaries
Kevin Le Bourdais and John Tyler from The Volcano Rotary Club visited us today with gifts. Every student in 3rd grade was given a dictionary! There are over 10,000 Rotary Clubs across the country that donate dictionaries to students each … Continue reading
Speech Festival Week
The time is nearly here. Our keiki have been spending many hours practicing and rehearsing their fables for the Speech Festival. Here is the schedule for the presentations next week: Tuesday, February 1 Class presentations; students will … Continue reading
SCHOLASTIC Activation Code
Another Scholastic book order was sent home yesterday and is due on Friday, January 21, 2011. If you are interested in submitting your order online please use the activation code HK43Y For every order made online, our class will receive … Continue reading
Trip to Maine
Wouldn’t it be great to take a huaka’i to the state of Maine? Well, we couldn’t actually do that, but Mrs. Stack arranged so that we could Skype with a 3rd grade class in Maine. Both classes shared facts about … Continue reading
Speech Festival Approaching
Fables, fables, fables. Papa ‘Ekolu students have been introduced to the genre of fables. Students are reading the classic fables from Aesop and local fables written by Leslie Ann Hayashi. This week the students will select a fable to memorize … Continue reading
Houselessness: The problem of people not having a house.
Today our students were shown a handful of pictures and asked to decide if the people in the photos were houseless or not. Many students made decisions based on looks alone. Little did they know that everyone in all the … Continue reading
Flexible Groups in Math
As you probably already know, students started their flexible grouping for math this week (a note was sent home with the students). Both classes are learning about multiplication and division. Though we are learning to understand the concept of multiplication, … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
Hip, hip, hooray… it’s 2011!!!! I’m looking forward to seeing the keiki in Papa ‘Ekolu.
Market Day Video
Homemade baked goods, koa Christmas ornaments, pet rocks, and more….what a wonderful learning experience this Market Day turned out to be! There was a lot of preparation before the big day arrived. Our keiki learned about our economy, money, producing … Continue reading