Ka 'Imi loa: All About Food!

Assembly April 26, 2019

by Fisher and Kyler

This week for our assembly, we had our Ka ‘Imi Loa students from Kukunaokalā share what they learned in their most recent unit about food. Also, this week for the first time this year, we had Sixth Grade students announce the birthday books. Good job, Aiden and Spencer!

Ka‘Imi Loa shared what they learned through songs and facts they learned. I think the whole school loved the videos that they shared of them cooking various foods like eggs, waffles, cookies, noodles, sushi and many more. With the help of Mr. Hirokawa, they created a food rap which included all the roles citizens play in our community to get food from the farms to your plate. Remember to eat local!

March Madness and 2018's winner, "The Day the Crayons Quit!"

by Kyler, Shawn, and Kaia

On April 12th, 2019, we had a assembly lead by Ms.Gabby about the March Madness winner. As we entered the pavilion the energy was super high while we sang “All I Really Need.” After that there were lots of birthday books. Then an important announcement from Kare Kids about people with leukemia. Next there was an announcement about the stream clean up and school camp. Finally the assembly was turned over to Ms. Gabby. She walked up to the stage and every step she took tension was building. The two final books for March Madness were, “Wonder” and “The Pigeon Series.” It was as if the books were giving each other stern looks. We had a little drum roll and the winner was… “Wonder!” Everyone went crazy and wild with excitement. Since “Wonder” was a chapter book, we read “The Day the Crayons Quit” which was the March Madness winner from last year. The book was very unique and everyone loved it.  

Po‘e Ka‘ahele's Mānoa Heritage Propagation Shed Project

By Matthew and Kyler

On April 5th, 2019, we all witnessed an assembly held by Po‘e Ka‘ahele. Their assembly was about their experience at Mānoa Heritage Center. Their goal was to create a plant propagation shed to give the children of Po‘e Ka‘ahele a chance to work in the community. Po‘e Ka‘ahele presented a slide show to explain their process in planning and how to make the shed. They also had an informational video to show us their work and process to make the shed. First, they decided to have six teams: Documentaries, Materials, Builders, Plants, and Budget Organizers to make the project successful. The students actually bought materials, figured out their budget, and even figured out what wood to buy in order to make the shed a standing, sturdy structure for the Mānoa Heritage Center. Next, instead of just showing us pictures of their experience to build the shed, they also explained their experience in words. Two members from every team shared how they helped to make the Propagation Shed a success.    

This assembly definitely provided information to every individual watching the assembly. We picked up fascinating ideas from the Po‘e Ka‘ahele kids that will definitely help us in the future and even in the present. This was one of the unique Fridays in the year 2019 at Hanahau‘oli School.      

Jump for Joy!!

By Tyler and Kahn

Week of 3/11/19

This week’s assembly was the second half of the Jump Rope Assembly. One third of the assembly was for Kulāiwi, the second was for Po‘e Ka‘ahele, and the third was for Sixth Grade. Kulāiwi had an amazing time with Olivia, Jessie, Summit, Cappy, Drew, and Havana doing their routine. Next Pulama, and Lea jumped the wheel. Then, Taino, Brady, and Nathan performed the Fireball. Cooper, Gabby, Ryder, Zane, Taylor, and Petra did a quick round of speed jump. Lastly, Taino, Finn, and Nathan blasted through some double-unders.

Po‘e Ka‘ahele showed off some of their cool routines from each of the different homegroups. Next they showed off some static double dutch which is two long ropes turning at the same time. And finally they did a speed jump.

Sixth Grade came in with lots of enthusiasm with some awesome routines. Then they showed off some wowing double-unders. Then they also showed some yowzing double dutch. Then a few kids did a speed jump. And finally the whole class of 2019 did a game of Miss Bisket. The assembly was a big success.

Junior Kindergarten Garden Play

Assembly Blog

By Riley and Alex

Today at assembly the JK class performed a play. The play was about a woman who lived on a farm. She had a cabbage patch and some mischievous visitors. The visitors were bunnies that would eat the cabbages. Finally the bunnies worked together to replant the vegetables they ate. The JK class did an amazing job with the play. We loved watching the cute bunny hops and the puffy cabbage tops. We liked how the story was so funny, and that it ended happily.  That was our assembly this week.

The Founders' Play

Today in assembly the Po‘e Ka‘ahele students put on a Founders’ Play. This play was in honor of Hanahau‘oli’s 100th year of running and in honor of Sophie and George Cooke. I learned that Sophie wanted a school which her kids could have fun learning, but she couldn’t find one. So she got the idea from Gudrun Thorne Thomsen to create a school of her own that made her desires come to life. Within the four months of Sophie getting the idea to make a school and acutely make it happen, Hanahau‘oli was created. During the 20th century most women didn’t have much power to do things, so the fact that Sophie was able to create a school in four months was pretty amazing! Soon after the school opened, John Dewey (a man famous for his education philosophies) came to visit at ninety-one years old, and he gave Sophie and George the “green light” to continue. Ever since then Hanahau‘oli has been open, and this year has just made 100 years! The play was fun to watch, and we can’t wait to see a sequel!

HAPPY YEAR OF THE PIG!

February 8th, 2019 Assembly Blog By: Star

This week’s assembly we had many announcements. We had birthday books from Ms.Gabby, a keiki rainbow run from Mrs. Toyama, and an announcement from Kare Kids explaining their latest fundraiser called Pennies for Patients to help people fight Leukemia. Then, Mrs. Woo announced that the ramp to the stage is officially finished. We would like to thank the Kondo ‘Ohana for making this generous donation. After that Mrs.Wong and Mrs. Chen shared a Chinese poem on firecrackers and the Chinese Lion dances in Chinatown. After announcements, the assembly was turned over to Kukunaokalā. Kukunaokalā did a play on the Chinese Zodiac and how it came to be. We loved seeing all of the students dressed up as their role as they acted out their scene. I also loved the idea of having some lines translated from English to Mandarin. By the way, great job Arabella, Winston, and Aaron for translating the lines! Thank you so much Kukunaokalā for the amazing play!

The First Ever Progressive Education Symposium in Hawaii

Hanahau'oli School and the University of Hawaii at Manoa presented the first-ever Progressive Education Symposium on April 6, 2019. Leading educators joined Mr. Cohn in a panel discussion about why more than ever students must learn to ask questions and think for themselves.

Check out a preview of the symposium by local media OC-16 below. To view a recording of the Symposium event, please email multimedia@hanahauoli.org to request a password for access, then click on the images of Alfie Cohn below to view the recording.

View a recording of the Hanahau‘oli School Centennial Progressive Education Symposium with a keynote by author Alfie Cohn and panel discussion with members of the education community. Please email multimedia@hanahauoli.org to request a password to view this recording.

Singing Favorite Hanahau‘oli Songs

Assembly Blog by Spencer and Lila

February 15, 2019

This week Mr. Hirokawa ran our assembly. This assembly was spent singing each class’ favorite songs. Every class got to choose one, except for Sixth Grade. JK chose to sing “On Top of Spaghetti,” followed by Kukunaokalā’s choice, “Bazooka Bubblegum.” Then the whole school sung “Hi My Name is Joe” picked by Kulāiwi. In this song you begin with simple movements and they pile on top of each other so that you must do them all at once. Next, Po‘e Ka‘ahele chose to sing "The Second Story Window.” We finished the camp songs with our Centennial songs, Ho‘omau Hanahau‘oli and Kōlea. For our school song, Kimat led by playing the piano.

Hanahau‘oli’s biggest fundraiser is "Mālama Nā Keiki." Each year there is a Sheraton suite lucky draw. This week at assembly we had a draw to see who would get it. This year the Fitz-Patrick family won. Congratulations!

All in all, we all had a fun assembly.

A Design+Build For The Manoa Heritage Center By Hanahau'oli Students

Learn about the unique work conducted by Hanahau‘oli Po‘e Ka‘ahele students for the Manoa Heritage Center in this video featured on local station Spectrum OC16.

Kulāiwi's Ocean Creature Assembly on January 25, 2019

Assembly Blog

January 25, 2019

Eva and Miya  

In the Pavilion this week, Kulāiwi presented their Ocean Creature Assembly. The Kulāiwi students got to explore the Waikiki Aquarium, visit the beach to view a sea lion, explore Hanauma Bay, and enter the public library to gather information on their research topic. The students researched a variety of different animals, such as seahorses, dolphins, sharks, whales, and more! We learned how Kulāiwi got to pet a turtle’s shell, check out over three hundred public library books, and create Gyotaku art by stamping real fish on rice paper! Kulāiwi appreciated Ms. Okano and Ceila’s grandmother for their help through the process of making watercolor sea creature paintings! To learn more about each others research animal, the Kulāiwi students passed around a ball of yarn. They found ways to connect the creatures together and found that all of them had so many relations. To close the assembly, the Kulāiwi students sang a Hawaiian song. We thought their presentation was very interesting and fun. We can’t wait for many more assemblies to come!

Caring and Acts of Kindness Assembly ON JANUARY 4, 2019

January 4, 2019

By Scarlet and Kamalei

Hello, welcome back to another blog! Our names are Kamalei and Scarlett. This week’s blog was explaining what the first assembly of the year was about. This assembly was very inspirational and inspired us to do more acts of service and kindness throughout this year and many more to come. We gathered in the pavilion to learn from two student-lead clubs at our school: the Civic Club and the Kare Kids Club. Kare Kids do extraordinary deeds to help others around the world. For example, they raise money for different organizations like Water For Sudan and for Unicef. The Civics Club might not do good deeds for the world, but they do help by organizing certain events for our centennial year. Civics Club helped organize the haunted house for the Hanahau‘oli Children's Fair.  After these two clubs explained a little bit about what they do to help others, Miss. Gabby, our librarian, shared a short story titled The Boy and The Whale. This story is about a boy and his father who see a whale trapped in their fishing net. The boy so desperately wants to help the whale, but his father thinks the opposite. Despite what his father says he tries his best to free the whale. When he does, the whale jumps in the air to rejoice. Through this book we learned a little act of kindness can do a lot in this world. We encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and try your best to spread a little kindness wherever you go, because as we said before, a little act of kindness can go a long way.   

Winter Concert featuring Beginning Band, Concert Band and Brass Ensemble!

December 14, 2018

By Finley and Fisher

Today we had our annual holiday band concert. We did not have the pleasure to watch the band concert. Instead we were able to perform in the show. While the Beginning Band and concert band were performing, we were anxious to play. The Beginning Band performed "First Flight." "First Flight" was a beautiful and spectacular song. The last three songs for the Beginning Band were "Hot Cross Buns," "Rolling Along Half Courts," and "Go Tell Aunt Rhodie." The next was the Concert Band. They played four songs: "Doodle All Day," "When the Saints Go Marching In," and "Sakura, Sakura." This last song was our favorite. Lastly we had the Brass Ensemble, which we played in. First the Sixth Grade performers played two songs: "German Folk Song" and "All Through The Night." After those two songs the whole Brass Ensemble played four songs together: "Bottom Bass Boogie," "Scarborough Fair," "Up On the Housetop," and "Jolly Old Saint Nick." There was lots of clapping because each band did a great job. Thank you for reading our assembly blog.       

December 7, 2018 Holiday Concert by Hanahau'oli's Orchestras

By Kaia and Kyler

This week’s assembly was very special because it was the Winter Orchestra concert. The children who are taking orchestra performed the pieces they have been learning since the beginning of the year. There are three different groups: the beginning, intermediate, and the advanced orchestra.  There are three instruments to choose from: the violin, cello, and bass.

The beginning group played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Jingle Bells. Their music was very delightful. The next group or the intermediate group played nursery rhymes. The last group or the advanced group played a Christmas medley that had a lot of different songs. The final piece was T’was the Night Before Christmas. Uncle Blair read the story, and the orchestra provided sound effects. Everyone clapped, and we all happily ended with the school song.

Centennial Schoolwide Mosaic Assembly November 30, 2018

By Sean

At today's assembly, we talked about the Centennial art project, the mosaic. Mrs. Okano, Leah Rigg ’80, and Madame Caron played a crucial part in making this happen, along with all the students, faculty, and staff of Hanahau‘oli. This mosaic is based on two pieces of art: “The Hug” and “Starry Night.” It was amazing how all the different classes did unique pieces of artwork that will make up a whole. JK’s piece of artwork is round shapes, Kukunaokalā created portraits with rays of the sun, Kulāiwi got inspiration from our island home, Po‘e Ka‘ahele imprinted part of their ‘ohe kapala into the clay, and finally 6th Grade designed miniature stepping stones. Then Kamalei and Kaia talked about what they did on their miniature stepping stone and why. They even shared the process 6th Grade did to make the clay piece. In the end Mrs. Okano and Madame Caron showed what the mosaic will look like and how hard it will be to make. The piece will be completed when we come back from our spring break. How exciting it will be to see it finished!

We closed with our special Hanahau‘oli song.

Po‘e Ka‘ahele Kapa Assembly

Hello, our names are Adam and Kahn, and this week’s assembly was the Fourth Grade Kapa assembly. Kapa is clothing that was worn by the ancient Hawaiians. They would take the bark of the wauke tree and pound it into a cloth-like material. The students talked about the process of making a kapa and the experience, along with their designs. For example, our classmate Kyler Matsui who just became a student at Hanahou‘oli this year, talked about his design which is a river flowing through mountains. He was inspired to do this because his family loves to go hiking and be outdoors. Ancient Hawaiians used dyes from plants to make designs on their kapa. Unfortunately the students just used paint. To put the designs on the cloth they carved the design that they wanted on a piece of linoleum called and ‘ohe kapala, but traditionally ‘ohe kapala are made of bamboo. There was also a big act of kindness while they were making kapa. While Reyn Doi was acting in Los Angeles he sadly wasn’t able to make his own kapa. He tried many different ways to make a kapa while he was away, but sadly he wasn’t able to do it. So, back here at Hanahau‘oli his friends were very thoughtful and made one for him. We are very proud of them and are excited to see them wearing their kapa next week Wednesday at Makahiki.

Children's JOYFUL JAMBOREE Fair Appreciation Assembly on November 9, 2018

by Tyler and Allison

At assembly this week, we got to reflect on our Joyful Jamboree Fair. After we saluted the flag, Mrs. Matsui shared a slideshow she made for the school. She included many pictures from different activities. After the announcements and thought of the day, Ms. Woo asked the students what they liked about the fair. For example, Noah liked dunking Ms. Eldredge. Also, Spencer liked the floss challenge. Another example is Broc liked the live entertainment. After, Ms. Woo thanked the Co-chairs and Sub-chairs. Adam’s mom shared two parents’ opinions of the fair. One parent was Kendall Hee. We enjoyed this assembly because there was a lot of student participation!

Halloween Assembly: "Here, There and Back Again"

by Jordan and Riley

At his week’s assembly, the Po‘e Ka‘ahele class performed a Halloween play. The play was called, “Here, There, Back Again.” The story was about a brother and a sister who crawled into a teleporting closet. The closet took them to the Land of Dreams where they met a guy named William. William had also arrived to the Land of Dreams through a teleporting closet. An Evil Queen told the three of them they had 24 hours to escape back to their world. The three of them went on a journey to find the teleporting closet. They met many creatures like skeletons, aliens, dragons, witches, mummies, and vampires. Old characters were resurrected and new characters made an entry. The returning characters were Dr. Peters as a vampire and Mrs. Shimek as a witch. One new character that may be returning next year is Mrs. Woo as a mummy. There were a couple of songs performed. One was about the missing closet and the other was about popular witches. Overall, this was a really entertaining play and the audience enjoyed every moment!

Assembly on our school chant, "Aia I Ka Poli o Makiki"

Written by Alyssa and Keira

Today, October 19, 2018,  Kukunaokalā shared the meaning of Aia I Ka Poli O Makiki at Assembly. Mrs. Mullen shared the story of how Aia I Ka Poli O Makiki was gifted to our school. Mrs. Inouye introduced Mrs. Mullen to Mr. Kamahele, a parent at Hanahau‘oli, in 1993. Mrs. Mullen listened to the song over and over and each time she loved it more and more. She really thought that it resembled Hanahau‘oli very well. So, 25 years ago, Aia I Ka Poli O Makiki was gifted to our school by Mr. Kamahele.  

Next Mrs. Mullen shared how he created this song. He was at an event at the school and heard faint singing coming from children and adults communicating and working together and it reminded him of birds. When Kukunaokalā children learned this song, Uncle Blair took them into the forest to learn the real meaning and to hear the birds that Mr. Kamahele may have heard.

After Mrs. Mullen shared, the Kukunaokalā children presented how they interpreted the song, Aia I Ka Poli O Makiki, here at Hanahau‘oli.

• I Ka uluwehi i kanahele:  the lush green forest.

• Ua ho‘o malu i ka ulu kukui: protected under our trees.

• I ka home launa na hoa aloha, our school home for us, come teaches and helpers.

• Eo mai Eo Amakihi, Answer me I call to Amakihi.

• Eo mai Eo Elepaio, Answer me I call to Elepaio.

• Eo mai Eo Apapane, Answer me I call to Apapane.

• Eo mai, Eo na hoa aloha e, means I call to my special friends.

Then they reminded us to always remember to sing it with kindness and aloha!

Calling all talent! Friday, October 12 Talent Show at Assembly

Written by Sawyer and Aiden

This assembly was the year’s first talent show!

The performers names were: Vivian, Olivia, Stephanie, Aiden, Noah, Lyric, Danika, Drew, Finn, Mason, Brady, Arabella, Lilyana, Penelope, and Livia. The performances ranged from an entomologist sharing her live bug collection, to singing, dancing, a comedy skit, playing the piano, and a Lacrosse demonstration. There was something for everybody!

The talent was amazing!  Vivian, Oliva and Stephanie did a dance to the song, This is Me.  Aiden and Noah did a classic comedy baseball skit with a play on words that was so funny. Danika sang a tune from Peter Pan called Lost Boys that was danced by Lyric.  Arabella played Fountain in the Rain by William Gillock on the piano.  Two more dancers, Drew and Finn, choreographed a dance to Despacito.  Our entomologist, Lilyana, had beetles, cockroaches, and even a baby centipede.  She picked them up with her own hands to share them and her passion for bugs!  Brady and Mason did a video demonstration on Lacrosse. Penelope sang a song from Frozen and Livia closed the assembly by playing our school song!

Once these performers shared their talents, the audience was astounded, they clapped and cheered. We personally think that this talent sharing went very well. We think this assembly connects to our Sixth Grade lives because we are learning and sharing about each other just like what we did at Camp Mokuleia and how we bonded as a class. 

 These are our thoughts on this week’s assembly.