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Kalani Peʻa- ʻŌpae Ē (Opae e) - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

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Wonderful Job Nene 4 at our May Day Program 🌺 Thank you families for coming!

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Homemade Hummus made with garbanzo beans, Lemon juice, garlic and Olive oil!

HELDS: Sensory

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May Day is Lei Day in Hawaiʻi Nei 🌺 Instead of doing a mural of the Hawaiian Islands, the keiki wanted to string a lei of paper flowers, beads and straws. Lei is a symbol of love and a way we show it by giving to others.

HELDS: Fine Motor, Social/Emotional

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Pilina Day with our friends in P9 - We worked together to malama our playground by cleaning up dead leaves!

HELDS: Fine Motor, Social/Emotional

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SCHOOL CLOSED - GOOD FRIDAY

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Papa ‘Ike with Aunty Misty was fun! We worked in our journals and reviewed where our water comea from. We drew the sun, rain, clouds, waterfall, mountains, and ocean. We also made the life cycle of butterfly on plates and worked on each stage. Aunty Leslie rescheduled her visit to 4/25.

HELDS: Language/Literacy, Social Studies

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Library Day with Uncle Ikaika! He read stories to us about Earth Day and we did some fingerplay and dances!

HELDS: Language/Literacy

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Aunty Darlene brought in her Butterfly Exhibit on campus today! We got to enter the butterfly canopy and feed some monarch butterflies fruit punch on a stick! We watched them drink from their long tongue. Also, we learned the life cycle and got to hold some caterpillars and learn about them. The last booth was we could dress up as a butterfly! So fun and we learned a lot!

HELDS: Cognitive (Life Science)

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Happy Monday! We discussed the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and then butterfly. We introduced the term “symmetry”, as most animals and plants have a mirrored image. We made beautiful symmetrical butterflies!~ Check them out fluttering on our board!

HELDS: Cognitive (Math), Art

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What a rainy day! No Walking day for us. We worked on the parts of a flower plant:

Flower, stem, leaves and roots.

HELDS: Cognitive, Fine Motor

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Planting some lima beans! We discussed that plants need water, sun and air to grow! Weʻll watch it grow the next couple of weeks!

HELDS: Cognitive (Life Science)

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GO GREEN! Smoothie - made out of fresh Pineapple, Banana, baby Spinach, cucumber, honey and oatmilk! 💚

HELDS: Sensory, Health

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Today we read the book, “Our Planet: Thereʻs No Place Like Earth” and discussed about pollution, how it affects all living things that live on land, air and water. We put these plates w/ vaseline around to see if it would catch anything.

HELDS: Cognitive

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It was a fun Nature Walk to Honolulu Hale, as we visited the completed “umeke” meaning ‘bowl.” We also looked around and observed the roots of trees and characteristics of some plants.

HELDS: Cognitive

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Honua means “Earth” in Hawaiian. We made our honua out of our handprints. Green represents the land and blue the kai (ocean.) We also sang the song “Aloha i kei kai” which talking about loving the ocean and taking gold cafe!

HELDS: Social Studies, Cognition

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We woke up super early to walk and watch a play called “Too Many Mangos” at HTY’s Tenney Theater nearby. One if our favorite local books came to life and if was so funny filled with music and a great message about sharing and caring for others.

HELDS: Language/Literacy, Social/Emo

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“Aloha” means hello and goodbye and love. We did some cool watercolor art with chalk crayons of the word Aloha. Our Earth is so precious and we need to take care of it. We read the story “Love the World” at carpet time.

HELDS: Language/Literacy

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Today we reviewed all of the countries we traveled to in the past two months! We worked in our journals and drew an Earth and expressed which country was our favorite and why.

HELDS: Language/Literacy, Fine Motor

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Our walking field trip to the Honolulu Museum of Art! It was fun to see the artwork and sculptures from different Asian countries and Hawaii!

HELDS: Social Studies, Language

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Today we traveled to New Zealand and made some beautiful Māori necklaces out of cardboard and designed with wax crayons. New Zealand is in Oceania, a group islands in the Pacific/Polynesia area. We learned about it the haka too!

HELDS: Fine Motor, Social/Studies

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SCHOOL CLOSED - Prince Kūhio Day

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Australia is our last leg of travel! The country of Australia takes up the entire continent! It’s home the beautiful animals such as the kangaroo and koala bear! Aboriginals, the natives in Australia made boomerangs to help them hunt prey! We made some cool ones out of cardboard and decorated them with intricate line designs!

HELDS: Social Studies, Art

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Welcome Back from Spring Break! It took it easy and worked in our journals and practiced writing our name and drawing what we did over spring break! Some of us wanted to practice cutting out shapes too!

HELDS: Fine Motor, Language/Literacy

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KOKUA WORMS: reschedule to 4/25

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HAVE A WONDERFUL SPRING BREAK! See you all back on Monday, March 24!

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Early Learning Advocacy Day at the Capitol was a walking success! It was the kids' first time walking to the volcano structure. The Mayor did a speech and were able to visit some Senators in their offices to say thank you for supporting early learning.

HELDS: Gross Motor, Social/Emotional

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Mixed Up Lu'au was so much fun! Each class represented a culture provided different activities for us to try. We were able to rotate around the different classes: Filipino, Italian, Hawaiian, Mexican, Japanese, Chinese to say a few. Then at lunch we shared a meal with our Pilina friends in P9!

HELDS: Social/Emotional, Social Studies

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We started on prepping our leaves to make laulau sweet potato!

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We did some kapa printing!

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We flew back to our home in Hawaii. We discussed about the ancient Hawaiians wore kapa for their clothing and mats. It was traditionally made out of the bark from the wauke tree. They pound it until soft and was dried under the sun. Once dried, people decorated it by stamping shapes and designs on it.

HELDS: Fine Motor, Social Studies

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Library Day with Mr. Ikaika was fun! He read stories to us about the weather and did fingerplays and dances. Have a nice weekend!

HELDS: Language & Literacy

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Columbia Fruit Salad - mixed your favorite fruit and add some condensed milk with cheese! A very popular dessert in that country!

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This week we flew to the country of Perū on the continent of South America! We read a book about them: the people speak Spanish and have beautiful mountains. Machu Picchu, an ancient city was lived by Incans. We did some nazca lines, which are pictures carved in the ground. We traced a stencil and glued beans as the outline.

HELDS: Art, Fine Motor

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Hawaii Theater of Youth actors came by and did a play called “Musubi Man,” a Hawaii rendition of the Gingerbread man. We loved the story and had us laughing!

HELDS: Language/Literacy

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Mamma Mia, we made pizza! 🍕🍕🍕 not to eat, we designed our pizza craft with different materials as toppings. Friends said they like cheese, pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, bell peppers and olives on their pizza! After we were done, we put it in the “oven” drying rack. Haha!

HELDS: Fine Motor, Social Studies

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🍴BON APPETIT, as they would say in Italy! We made some delicious fettuccini Alfredo made out of butter, Parmesan cheese and mushrooms! Friends did a great job carefully cutting the mushrooms into small pieces! 😋

HELDS: Fine Motor, Sensory

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All over Europe, cathedrals have these beautiful stained glass windows! We made our own out of tissue paper and will display it on our front door and see how the light illuminates the colors!

HELDS: Fine Motor

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Happy Monday! We worked in our journals using 10-frame with stable. We learned to count 1-10 in Spanish!

HELDS: Cognitive (Math)

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Walking Day to Honolulu Hale and checked out their mini Japanese Garden!

HELDS: Gross Motor

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We traveled to Egypt and learned about the country! Pyramids are found in Egypt and were built almost 4,500 years ago by man and out of heavy limestone. We worked together to cut rectangle pieces of paper and built our pyramid!

HELDS: Fine Motor, Social/Emotional

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Library day was so much fun with Mr. Ikaika! He read to us multi-cultural books and busted out his ukulele and we danced with egg shakers!

HELDS: Language/Literacy, Music

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We traveled to the country of Morocco in Africa!

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NO SCHOOL in observance of Presidents Day 🇺🇸

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Today we made art with colored rice! We reviewed the Asian countries: Japan, China and Philippines and they all eat rice in their culture!

HELDS: Fine Motor, Art

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We made Banana Lumpia today! It was fun listening and following to directions, as we rolled up our banana and fried it to perfection! It was so “sarap” (Filipino: delicious) we forgot to take our picture at the end 🤪

HELDS: Social Studies, Fine Motor

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We flew to South Korea today and stamped our passports! We made Taeguk Fans today representing Korean flag. We learned to count 1-10 in Korean and say hello and thank you!

HELDS: Language/Literacy, Cognitive

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Aunty Misty came by today for Papa ‘Ike and she read us a book about the ocean and its friends. She also reviewed our “Ke Ao Nani” chant/dance about the sky, land, mountains, ocean and fresh water.

HELDS: Language/Literacy

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Happy Aloha Friday! We decided to walk to Honolulu Hale to check out if there were any artwork display! Lo and behold, there was a huge display of an ‘umeke, Hawaiian word for bowl. The people were still building it and it looks so cool and it was enormous!

HELDS: Gross Motor, Language

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Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the snake! We had Chinese lion dancers perform on the Courtyard and we were able to feed it with our red envelopes (lycee) for ‘good fortune.’ We also paraded our dragon puppets around the playground!

HELDS: Social Studies

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We are still in the continent of Asia. We traveled to Japan the Land of the Rising Sun.Japan is known for their food which is the Sushi Rolls that we made for today for cooking day. Oishi!

HELDS: Sensory, Social Studies

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We traveled to the continent Asia and to the country of China! Asia is the largest continent in our world. Chinese use chopsticks to eat their food. We practiced picking up cotton balls with them and paint on paper.

HELDS: Fine Motor, Social Studies

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Hello February! We transition from learning Transportation to kicking off the month of learning about “All Around the World.” What is a map and an introduction what is a continent and country? We started making our mock U.S. Passports because we need them to travel 🤗

HELDS: Fine Motor, Literacy

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We love Aunty Misty and Papa ‘Ike! She showed us a song about the clouds (ao), rain (ua), mountains (mauka), kai (ocean) and wai (fresh water). This day was so stormy as we experienced heavy rain and thunder/lightning!

HELDS: Language/Literacy

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HPD Meet ‘N Greet was rescheduled to 2/28 due to weather conditions. We did some journal work where we practiced cutting different lines that represented a road, ocean and mountains with scissors.

HELDS: Fine Motor

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What a fantastic Pilina Day will our Pueo 9 peers! We read a book about Chinese New Year and made our own Lion Puppets. The process of coloring the Lion faces with marker, ripping newspaper and stuffing it was so fun and great teamwork! Some friends also pretended to be Lion Dancers!

HELDS: Social/Emotional, Fine Motor

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Today we had another successful Fire Drill and walked to our safe place together! When we returned to class, we worked on Part 1 of making our Boat Puppets by painting our paper plates with blue shaving cream paint for the ocean!

HELDS: Safety, Fine Motor

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Happy Aloha Friday! We had a nice chilly walk around Alapai and saw many semi trucks and city busses. We spotted some airplanes and helicopters in the sky! The hillside was calling our name so we played for a but. Chloe bought us some pizza for lunch, thank you!!

HELDS: Gross Motor, Language

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We had an amazing time at the Kaka'ako Fire Station and learned a lot about what fire safety and what firefighters do. We had a chance to shoot the fire hose and see the ladder truck in action. Thank you parent chaperones for coming with us!

HELDS: Cognitive, Safety

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We read the book about astronauts operating space shuttles to outer space to explore. For Cooking Day we made some yummy "Rocket Kabobs" by placing melons, strawberry and a jumbo marshmallow on skewers. We also continued presenting our "Shape Vehicles" project in front of the class.

HELDS: Fine Motor, Literacy

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It was a chilly morning! We read an informational book about airplanes and how there are many kinds of airplanes that transport different items: people, cargo, animals, etc. We made paper airplanes and designed them with windows. Before lunch, we tested our paper airplanes on the Courtyard to see how far it flew!

HELDS: Literacy, Fine Motor

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SCHOOL CLOSED in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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What a refreshing walk to HPD Station and spotted many police cars! We continued to practice safety rules and was able to spot more different transportation vehicles like bicycles, taxis, mopeds and trolleys.

HELDS: Gross Motor

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Today we started making our thank you card for our dear Kaka’ako Firefighters. We drew why we love them and grateful for all they do to help serve our community.

HELDS: Fine Motor, Literacy

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Mahalo for coming to our Family Potluck! The children did an amazing job 🤩

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Mahalo for coming to our Family Potluck! The children did an amazing job 🤩

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If you have any photos or videos from our potluck, please share and upload on our OneDrive link: https://seagulladmin-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/chanel_venzon_seagullschools_org/EpcSm_l8iDlOpUMSm3yBJ-gB3DUMYGDMrLSe5wb_KiOXog?e=G1gS44 . Thank you!

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Parent Handbook - SY 23-24 ALL SITES-revisions Final (1)