We had a GREAT day on our huaka`i to Ka`ū. We visited the Ka`ū Coffee Mill, took a tour of the farm and learned how coffee was made. Aunty Kathy Kam met us and shared more paintings and drawing experiences with us. We learned about and visited the birth place of Henry Opukahaia, near Punalu`u and ended our day with a swim with the honu`ea; famous in Punalu`u.
Here we share the famous Ka Nani A`o Ka`ū mele with the wahi pana as our way to say mahalo for providing us a great day and huaka`i.
Today our students wore the color pink in honor of all who have overcome, battle and have lost their life to breast cancer. We also had a discussion about how our founder Ke Ali’i Pauahi lost her life to this disease on October 16, 1884.
Our keiki have put a keiki theatre together sharing the pilina between the mo`olelo of Pele traveling to Hawai`i and the scientific approach of magma, plates, crust, etc. Our keiki are cute.
Please enjoy your break keiki. Ho`olohe to your `ohana and have lots of fun! See you all on Tuesday the 15th.
Love, Kumu Kaleo
Our keiki were fortunate to learn from famous local artist Kathleen Kam. Aunty Kathy shared her knowledge of painting by demonstrating how to use colors to create an `gala, our grade level plant.
Yippee!!! We have got our iPads. Our keiki are super excited to have these great technology tools. We will definitely be doing a lot with it.