Category Archives: Writing

Growth Mindset #2: Ho’omau

Happy Monday ka’u i’a! Use our class discussion and the infopic above to help you answer the question of the day.  Share your thoughts by writing a paragraph. Please think about connections to the questions that you ask yourself.  Revise … Continue reading

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Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset

Closely look at both infographics below created by Sylvia Duckworth and share a paragraph (minimum) on a personal connection to growth mindset in a specific subject area. Think of a specific situation in class and share when you adopted the growth … Continue reading

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Monday Word of the Day…Antipode

Here’s a new word for Monday, ka’u i’a!  ANTIPODE… Take a “CLOSE” look at the infographic above, really observe!…What do you notice?  Ask yourself some question as inquiry is the first step in understanding 🙂  “Na maka hohonu”…use your deepest … Continue reading

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Wonderopolis…Can the World be a Classroom?

Ever heard the saying the world is our classroom?  Click on the link to find out!  http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/can-the-world-be-a-classroom  To complete this assignment you need to do two things: 1) Post a comment to our blog and share the definition of metaphor … Continue reading

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Wonderopolis # 1: “Can Anyone Be President of the United States?”

Good morning Students, Click on the link to Wonderopolis to read about this interesting topic! http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/can-anyone-be-president-of-the-united-states Once at the site, click on the find it out green button.  Explore this reading, watch the videos, take the wonder word challenge, do the … Continue reading

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The Final Genius Hour: Genius Hour for Genius Hour! Let Your GENIUS Out!

THIS IS A GUEST POST WRITTEN BY KARISSA AND KAIOLOHIA, Students in 5B! Recently, the class broke up into groups and created Genius Hours about Genius Hour. In these projects we explained what Genius Hour was and why other classes … Continue reading

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Content-Smashing!

The students are off to a great start for this week as they learn about math formulas, volume in particular and smash in techonolgy and writing! Here they used Tinkercad to explore how to create object that they will be … Continue reading

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Wonder of the Day: April 7

http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-are-hieroglyphs/ Click on the link above to read all about hieroglyphs, don’t forget to check out the vocabulary words.  Once you have closely read the Wonder of the Day passage, answer the question below by adding your thoughts on the … Continue reading

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Makawalu: Papa ‘Elima’s Annual Capstone Project

The students have been working extremely hard at getting their presentations ready for our big day!  Our annual capstone project: Makawalu is happening this week.  Ohana is cordially invited to join us on Thurs., April 9th at 1:15-2:15pm to be … Continue reading

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Walter WOWing the World!

The WOW writing saga continues…As you know, Walter chose to take Mrs. Angela Maiers’ challenge to become a WOW (Worth of the World) writer.  The class has been adding up all the possible views from our Twitter feed, all the … Continue reading

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