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Aloha 5B Ohana,
The days are already “swimming” by…here’s a wonderful conversation starter with your keiki. Check out our video together and have your keiki share the details behind the picture! Enjoy your ohana time!
Click on the video & “dive” into our FISH!bowl!
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Ohana Alert: Week of Sept. 8-11
Aloha e nå 5B Ohana,
Here we go, the blog will be up and running! Ohana Alerts will be posted on our blog every Sunday to keep you “in the loop” for the week. The class blog will allow you to “dive” into our FISH!bowl to see the happenings in 5B! Bookmark us and “swim” with us!
Some helpful at a glance info for ohana:
When students see pink, it is a call to action. They are required to complete/do an assignment either by commenting to a post or uploading to one. Blue is an alert to ohana 🙂 Feel free to comment or drop me a line to share what you feel would be helpful now or anytime in the future…as we work together to help our children thrive!
Tues., Sept. 8-Day 5: Students will be taking SBKH tri-campus assessment this week. IXL skills F.6, F.7, F.8 due today. As shared at Open House, IXL skill are additional practice of skills covered in class. Students are given approx. a week to complete assigned skills to mastery (minimum 80%) in order to allow students to successfully complete on a day that works for ohana! Remember, 7 skills completed are necessary to be entered into the monthly drawings as well as the end of the year celebration!
Wed., Sept. 9-Day 6: 1st Håweo Luncheon of the year! Håweo has evolved and does not honor a particular students, but instead honors everyone’s ohana members for continued partnership with all of us. We honor ohana members as we know, you lay the foundation and students recognize that the strength of the past allows them to ho’omau into the bright future! We honor the Aiona-Agra and Amaral ohana on this day!
Fri., Sept. 11-Day 2: NO Huaka’i…to be rescheduled.
Have a wonderful week! Can you believe its already September!
Candidates prepare
We also had our Aha ‘Øpio elections…congrats to the 5B FISH! who were part of the democratic process!
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iPad Parent Online Assessment
Aloha e nå 5B Ohana,
The school year is off to a great start! (Stay tuned for more photos soon!) The students and I had a wonderful time getting to know each other today, the time flew by so quickly!!! First day nerves, jitters, excitement, & joy is now part of our history books! It was so nice to reconnect with all the keiki…now official Papa ‘Elima students! Mahalo to the ohana members who dropped by to introduce themselves, so looking forward to meeting you all soon!
The ipads were launched today in both 5th grade classes and we ask your assistance in completing all necessry forms to ensure that every child can take ipads home soon. Here is the link for the parent online assessment Online Assessment The student/Parent Contract (also required) was a form that was mailed to you. Please sign and return to class.
Feel free to ask you keiki all about our first day together! See ya soon!
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5B Words to Inspire…The FISH! Prepare to Swim Upstream Into Middle School
What a year! Time sure flew by…hope you are enjoying your summer vacation! Mahalo piha for all the makana! From chocolate fishes, to yummy cookie butter to beautiful bags, great scented soaps and hand & body lotions, to great starbucks mugs and gift cards, to sweet lychee and so ono hawaiian plate and poi & much more! Mahalo most of all for a great year! Continue to swim strong in your journey…a hui hou!
P.S. See below for the total # of words read by the 2014-15 5B FISH!
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Million Word Goal- Hiki No!
Updated 5/26/15: After a year of reading great books that took us on fabulous journeys around the world and back, the 5B FISH! have collectively read over 22 MILLION WORDS this school year! 🙂 Good going students! Have a great summer! 🙂
Post written by Student Guest Blogger: Lea
Yay! I finally met my million word goal! I tried hard to get here and I actually passed the goal instead of 28 books I read 34 books. I tried to do my vocabulary right after I was done with the book, but that didn’t work out so I was rushing on the last day. I worked hard and I was tired, but in the end it was ALL worth it. I exceeded the goal and I’m proud myself. Middle school may be harder and have more books required, but I’m pretty sure I’m ready for anything!
Karissa is also in the process of writing her blog post of accomplishing this great feat of reading ONE MILLION words…stay tuned for her thoughts on it!
Here’s Karissa’s thoughts on reading ONE MILLION WORDS this year! 🙂
A few days ago, I finally hit my million word goal. I worked really hard and tried my best, and I even read more then one million words. One million words equals 28 books, each book must be 120 pages to count as one. Instead of reading 28, I read 31. I hope in middle school I can read all of my books just like I did in elementary, actually scratch that. I don’t hope I can, I know I can if I just try.
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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 should do it too. In our groups we gave our opinions and advice on it. Some groups incorporated clips of their Genius Hour so classes can get an idea of what they can do, and what it looks like. We shared why it was important to us and the class. We were hoping to explain to other classes that Genius Hour is worth it and worth giving up class time.
Click on the videos below to hear student commentary on Genius Hour! It’s great for teachers to watch, students to watch, or anyone who wants to share their passion with the world! Share a comment to let us know what you think! 🙂
Posted in Go TEAM!, Guest STUDENT Blogger :), Reading, Techie Things, Writing
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Håweo May Awardees
This trimesters Ho’oulu star students were Cade and Macen! These two students proudly and strongly strived to reach the highest. We are all extremely proud of these two FISH! Philosophers! They showed us how to do our work while having fun! Kulia I Ka Nu’u! Great job of pushing through our third and final trimester here at Kula Ha’aha’a.
This blog post written by: Isabel, Karissa, Kaiolohia, & Kaulana
Posted in Go TEAM!, Guest STUDENT Blogger :), Ohana Alert!
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