Grade 2 found out more about Maui at Kaiwikiloumoku.  He called the wind and flew a kite!  We could do that too—but it was a challenge.  Did you see the story about Maui and the kite in the booklet that came home?  The chant was in there too.  This was a project between our classes of Science, PE and ‘Olelo Mo’omeheu on those special days we call La No’ono’o.  We can look for new ways to make connections in our learning, with our friends and across our different subjects.

We knew about how air worked with parachutes from science but kites seemed to be more complicated for us to make by ourselves.  The good part was that we had directions, lots of time and could take things home to finish.  We also had the energy to decide how much to run if the wind wasn’t strong enough to lift our kite.  Do you think Maui ran to fly his kite?

Kites may never seem quite the same, now that we worked at making out own—just like Maui!  How did he know how to make and fly a kite?  What do you think he knew about air and weather to help him?