Spirit Week and Skype

Spirit Week was super! There were so many things planned. We learned all about Australia when we brought in pictures to put on our front board.   There was also a big picture of Mrs. Walsh and Prep N, a Kindergarten class who  are our epals.  They are a really nice class and they email us letters often.
On Friday, our 3-13 buddies came to our classroom to have a 'Trail Mix' party.  All our snacks were mixed together and we got to eat it.  It was good!





We  started to Skype  with a Kindergarten class from Virginia.  That meant we saw and talked to another group of children far, far away using our computer and IWB.  A snowflake, which is a microphone and a webcam, which helped them see all us was used.  This is what we thought about it:

TH - They were nice children.
DB - They go home without their Moms and Dads.
SM - The children were singing nicely and loudly.
ML- I liked the class.
RY - The children stood up straight  when he or she spoke to us.
DSB - I liked their song.
AU - I liked it.
JI - Their teacher was nice.
EK - I liked their singing.
JK - They were sitting nicely.
MM - I liked when they sang their song.
KL -  They said their name loudly and nicely.

Mrs. Lee said we will be Skyping again with our new group of friends soon.  It was great!

Parent Reminders:

• Monday, October 3rd - Please bring in one apple  (Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, or Granny Smith).  An apple graphing activity is scheduled for Monday.
• Thursday - October 6th - Sea Life Park Field Trip Consent Forms due with payment.
• Friday - October 7th - RSVP for the Presentation of Learning
• Tuesday - October 11th - Presentation of Learning, K-1 classroom from 8:30-9:30 

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Counting Numbers 1-7 on Crazy Hair Day

We showed we can write  numbers 0-7 and add dots on craft sticks. Using Playdough as a base, we put the sticks in order.  Check out our crazy hair, which was part of our Spirit Week  activities.

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Recycled Hats

All our hats were made from recycled things from home!!!!!

Stacking Oreo Cookies

On Monday, we stacked Oreo cookies with grades 1-10 and 3-13. We all counted the number of Oreos as they were stacked.  This is what we thought about the activity:
JK - It was fun because we got to stack them.
JI - We got to make them as high as we could.
AU - I liked to stack them.
ML - I got a  headache because the counting was too loud.
TH - I got to stack them and it fell.  We got to restack them.
EK - I liked it because I loved stacking them.
MM - We got to eat them.
SM - I liked to stack them and make them tall.
DSB - We got to eat the Oreos after we were done.
DB - We got to stack, count, and stack them again.  We got to eat them.
RY - I saw it tipping.
KL - I wish I was at school  I was sick.

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Spirit Week 2011

Friday morning was loads of fun since we had our  Spirit Week Rally.  Everyone giggled, wiggled, and followed  the exercises as the Mickey Mouse  Mousercise CD was played.
Now, we can't wait for all of the Spirit Week class and buddy activities  which starts on Monday!!!!
GO DOLPHINS!

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Important tidbits:

• Monday, September 26th - Dress Alike with a K-1 friend/s.  Pictures of Australia (food, places of interest, people, etc) are due.
• Tuesday, September 27th - Bring a hat made from recycled material.
• Wednesday, September 28th - Canned goods can be brought to school for the Hawaii Food Bank. Purple attire and crazy hair styles day.
• Thursday, September 29th - Australian style clothing or accessories can be worn.
• Friday, September 30th - Bring in a sandwich size baggie of snack food or cereal for our Trail Mix.  This will be a buddy activity with Mrs. Conley's 3-13 class.  Mix and match your clothing day.
• Friday, September 30th - Grandparent's Day confirmation form due.  Scholastic Book Orders due.
• Monday - October 3rd - Each child should bring in one apple (Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, or Granny Smith) for our class graph, apple investigation and apple tasting activity.  (Hopefully there will be a variety of apples.)

Please refer to the  newsletter sent home on September 16th explaining the Spirit Week activities in detail.

The Story of Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed's birthday will be celebrated on September 26th.   To remember and get to know  about him, we  will be studying all about apples in the coming weeks.   We listened to The Story of Johnny Appleseed  by Aliki.  We learned he was a real person by the name of Jonathan Chapman.  He lived a long time ago.  Johnny Appleseed gave people  bags of apple seeds and planted apple trees  all across America.   After we listened to the story, we shared thoughts about Johnny Appleseed through this Wordle.

Please remember:

• Monday, September 26th - Dress Alike with a K-1 friend/s. Pictures of Australia (food, places of interest, or people) are due.
• Tuesday, September 27th - Bring  a hat made from recycled material.
• Wednesday, September 28th- Canned goods can be brought to school. Purple attire and crazy hair styles day.
• Thursday, September 29th - Australian style clothing or accessories can be worn.
• Friday, September 30th - Bring in a sandwich size baggie of snack food or cereal for the Trail Mix.  This will be a buddy activity with Mrs. Conley's 3-13 class. Mix and match  your clothing day.
• Friday, September 30th - Grandparent's Day confirmation form due.
• Friday, September 30th - Scholastic Book Orders due.
• Monday, October 3rd - Each child is requested to bring in one apple (red, green, or yellow) for our  class apple graph and apple tasting activity. (Hopefully there will be a variety of apples)

National Dot Day

Today is 'National Dot Day'. To celebrate this occasion, Mrs. Okamura, our school Librarian, read us the story The Dot by Peter Reynolds.  It is about a little girl, named  Vashti who thinks she can't draw. But later in the story she realizes she is a 'really great artist'.

We tried our hand in creating dot pictures using just paint and cotton swabs.  We  realized we were also ' really great artists'! Don't you agree?

'Anime Momotaro' and Our State Capital Field Trip

The first field trip of the year was  so exciting. Our initial stop was at our beautiful State Capital Building.  We walked around  to look at the mosaic, which shows the changing colors  and patterns of the sea around Hawaii on the ground floor and the offices on the second floor. Tenney Theater was where we watched Honolulu Theater for Youth's 'Anime Momotaro'.  The Peach Boy taught us the lesson of showing compassion to others and bullying was not acceptable.

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Parent Reminders:

• Monday, September 19 - No Buddhist Education class
• Tuesday, September 20 - Peace Day Temple Service.  Please dress appropriately for this occasion. Suggested attire: Boys- collared shirts and girls - dresses or pants outfits.
• Thursday, September 22 - Deadline for finishing Mathletics activities.

Growing Vegetable Soup

Listening to stories is one of the  things we like best.  Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert was a really 'souper' book.  It was about a father and little child who planted  vegetable seeds, watered,  and watched them grow.  Afterwards, they  cut the vegetables and made a tasty soup. We didn't make any real soup, but we did the next best thing by making our own  soup,  using construction paper, with vegetables we like to eat.



Reminders for the Parent :

• Thursday, September 15th - Picture Taking Day.  Please dress  your child accordingly and submit payment.
• Thursday, September 22nd - All the children have expressed their excitement about Mathletics!  Great.  Many of the children completed their activities due on September 22nd.

What Is It?

Dr. Riley, our Head of School, visited and surprised us by teaching our class today.  She read us Seven Blind Mice, by Ed Young. This book was about seven blind mice who found something strange by their pond.  They tried to guess what this 'thing' was.  The seventh blind mouse 'saw' the whole picture and realized it was an elephant.

Our job was to trick our friends by showing them only a shape glued on our paper.  Then inside of our  folded paper, we showed them the shape within our 'whole' picture.  Dr. Riley was so much fun.  Hopefully she'll return and teach us again.

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Please remember:
Monday, Septembr 12th - Flu Consent Forms due.
Wednesday, September 14th - HTY play at Tenney Theater. Mahalo to chaperones Ms. Kanayama and Mrs. Umetsu. HMS t-shirt should be worn.
Thursday, September 15th - Picture Taking Day.  All  payments for pictures should be submitted by September 15th.

School is Cool

We wanted to share this slideshow of us in action.  It was viewed at Open House, but you may want to watch it again here on our blog.  So, get some popcorn  and drinks while you enjoy this presentation!

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Pet Headbands

All the children were so excited on Tuesday evening when they were given the opportunity to share their classroom and work with you at our first Open House. Mahalo for showing your support.

Students are currently learning about 'Patterns' in Math. They are identifying, copying, extending and creating simple patterns.These concepts have been applied to real life situations.  Some activities they've enjoyed are painting patterns  using watercolors on their pet style headbands and designing a stripe  pattern on dog and cat cards.  'Strike a Pose' was their favorite as they could physically clown around with patterns. They were giggling when 2 students mimicked the clown poses viewed on cards.  The rest of the students joined in and extended the  AB pattern.

You could ask your child to describe, create, extend, or reproduce patterns they see when you are together.  They'll love to show you what they've learned.

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Please remember:

• Monday, September 5th - Labor Day
• Thursday, Friday, September 8th and 9th - Teacher Inservice
• Monday, September 12th- Flu Consent Forms due                                                                          
• Wednesday, September 14th - HTY play at Tenney Theater. HMS t-shirt should be worn.
• Thursday, September 15th - Picture Taking.  Kindly submit envelope with payment on or before  September 15th.