Just wanted to put everything here in a nutshell for y’all. The March newsletter and calendar were sent to you via email and Seesaw and can also be accessed on our Newsletters, Etc. page.

1:1 iPads

Just a reminder that keiki are expected to bring their iPads back to school on Mondays and Thursdays in their Kuleana Pack (clear plastic bag) along with their Keiki Lending Library Books. The Kuleana Pack will be sent home the following day carrying the iPad and a new pair of books. 

Keiki Books/Papa Honu Readers

Continue to log the books your keiki reads in their reading log folders (which were sent home in the Fall packet) and upload a photo of completed pages to their Seesaw journal. We are still tracking keiki reading progress on a page in our Bitmoji Virtual Classroom and our Papa Honu Readers program is still going on (keiki receive a book to add to their home library for every 200 books they read and log). 

Just for your information and peace of mind, books that keiki return to school from home go into quarantine for a week. They are not lent out to anyone else during this time and sit in a basket separately from the other books. After a week, the books are returned to circulation. Kumu chooses the books for keiki and tries to choose something different each time.

4th Quarter Plans

A letter went out this week to you all explaining our 4th quarter plans. We will continue with our schedule as is until Spring Break, which is March 15-19. The week following Spring Break will be on Zoom only (9:30am daily M-Th, Friday is the Kūhiō Day Holiday), no face to face/in classroom learning during this period. Also, we should be welcoming Kumu Ashly back to Papa Honu at this time. 🎉

The week after that, we remain separated by Hui 1/Hui 2 but the school day will finally be a little longer. Yay! School hours will be 8am-2:30pm starting March 29th, so keiki will need to bring their nap things for their cubby. We will continue with our daily 9:30am Zooms at the same link/meeting ID/passcode.

P4 Summer Extension

Due to the COVID shutdowns and our desire to make sure our kuaʻana (P4) are adequately prepared for kindergarten next year, our preschools have decided to provide a four week summer extension program for the month of June. As far as we are aware, this program is scheduled to run for this summer only as it is directly related to the COVID shutdowns and is ONLY AVAILABLE FOR P4/KUAʻANA keiki, NOT for P3/pōkiʻi keiki.

The P4 Summer Extension Enrollment form is due back to us by March 11, 2021 at the very latest and BOTH PARENTS NEED TO SIGN. If you are waiting to find out if your keiki makes it through Kamehameha’s kindergarten testing process, we would advise you to just request enrollment in our summer extension until you find out your keiki’s status there for sure. You will not be able to enroll in summer extension past the March 11 deadline.

As always, let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We are reachable by email, phone, text, Seesaw, or if you want to meet via Zoom, let us know and we can set that up, no problem. 😊 Mahalo!