Photo taken by on Isabellaʻs iPad

4A getting ready for Makahiki with their hoʻokupu!

Our news reporter, Brayden, captured the final highlights of our Ahupuaʻa project. Hereʻs his story: Ahupuaʻa Project.

This week: Look forward to news about our huki, huki challenge, cocoa and cracker time for Speech Festival, and possibly our Food Exploration on finding out where the foods we eat come from!

Kids hard at work in building geometric figures

4A has recently started a news report about class happenings! It is student-driven, and I am happy to share events in our class through the eyes of my keiki!

Click to read: Our First News Report

What is a book talk?

A book talk in Papa ʻEhā is an opportunity to verbally share with the class a book that you have read and finished! In your sharing,  you highlight exciting and interesting parts of the book, but you donʻt tell everything or the ending! You give the audience just enough to hook them, so theyʻre begging for your book to read!

To prepare over the Fall Break  for our Character Day Book Talk 2015, here are some steps to follow:

1. Choose a chapter book that you have finished between August- October 11. If youʻre reading the book right now, you have over the break to finish the book by October 11.
2. Choose a character in the chapter book that you will become. For this character day book talk, you will put yourself in the characterʻs shoe and become the character. This means you will “speak” and “act” like the character as you share about your book!
3. Costumes can be homemade or store bought. Be creative! But remember the school rules. When in doubt, please check with Kumu for advice.
4. The chapter book needs to be in your backpack everyday! After Fall Break, you will work on your book talk summary sheet. You will need the book to find quotes and text evidence to support your thinking.
   1. Talk stories with your Kumu if your book is a public or school library book.
5. Watch these videos to get idea of a book talk
1. Being Nikki Booktalk

2.     Paint the Wind Booktalk

3. The life and Death of Elvis Presley

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS over the break, please email Kumu Kala.

Big Idea: Graphs are powerful data displays because they quickly reveal a great deal of information.

Question: Why are these apps or websites popular among kids? Should 4A students use these popular apps or websites in class? why or why not?

Apps or websites: YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Minecraft 

Quest: In teams of 6, research and look for graphs or create graphs of your own to answer these questions. Think about the data shown in the lava graphs provided by Dr. Kimura.

Jobs: 2 Researchers– conducts online or interview research,  2 Bibliography– works with the researchers to collect website information and uses easybib.com to cite information, 2 Creators– works with the researchers to organize and feature data on a poster paper or on an iPad app.

Week One– Collect, organize, display, analyze

Week Two– Display, analyze, and present

Teams

Minecraft-

Researchers– Aaron, Makena; Bibliography- Krysjyn, Trinity;

Creators- Braelyn, Sara

Twitter-

Researchers– Alisha, Micah M.; Bibliography- Kaelum, Micah P.;

Creators- Tehya, Ciana

Instagram-

Researchers- Kamailah, Shade; Bibliography- Shawna, Christian;

Creators- Napua, Kaylee

Youtube-

Researchers- Rusty, Jayden; Bibliography- Tyler, Cammie;

Creators- Kircia, Michael