Kula Kiʻekiʻe: “Ka ipukukui pio ʻole” The unceasing light.
Students will be able to lead morning piko daily.
- Each morning students were chosen to lead the program.
- All high school students join kumu and staff with the oli komo back to the other middle school students.
- Pule: Each day a different student started the day off with prayer. Students were instructed on how to pray and expectations in their class time.
- Manaʻo o ka lā: Daily value, choose, share, and explain.
- ʻōlelo Noʻeau: Daily ʻōlelo Noʻeau, choose, share, and explain.
*During fall session the juniors and seniors lead the morning piko. For spring the sophomore class lead in preparation for their role next fall sessions as limahana with the younger grades.
Student Participation and Engagement
Māla Classes: Monday and Wednesday the kula kiʻekiʻe students were the alakaʻi leading each of the other grade levels in their assigned tasks in the māla area. They performed the oli komo for each of the younger student groups and lead pule before the work was stared. Younger students were broken up into groups. They were assigned tasks to complete and it was up to them to motivate their groups of younger students to complete the tasks. In the two days the kula kiʻekiʻe students were successful in leading the groups in cleaning out about 1/3 of the māla area of weeds, bushes, and overgrown grass. They also planted 2 beds of kalo, 20 niu trees, 8 beds of ʻuala, 200 lāʻī, and about 60 containers of ʻōhiʻa lehua.
Class Kuleana this session:
- Papa 6: Niu, ʻUala
- Papa 7: Lāʻī, ʻōhiʻa Lehua
- Papa 8: Kalo
What did you learn about being an Alakaʻi?
Hana Noʻeau: Students worked with ʻōhiʻa wood, they hand split a 4 foot long, 24 in. diameter log with an ʻōʻō bar and hand cut wooden wedges. It took them about 2 hours to split the log. The log was then carved into a kua for pounding kapa. The students used the kua to pound ule hala on the lā ʻohana friday to teach the families how to make ule hala rope from the hala tree.
- Kua Carving
- Ule Hala Cordage
Student Reflections
Lā ʻOhana
- Opening Hula
- Presentations