The Honu

Our Sea Life Park field trip is on Friday.  We're anxious to see the dolphins, honu, penguins, and other sea animals up close because we've been learning about these creatures in class.  The honu is the most interesting animal so we made our own turtles and wrote facts about them. 

Did you know that:
The mother honu uses it's front flippers to dig the sand before laying eggs?
The baby honu has a egg tooth to break their shell?
It takes about 3-7 days for the baby honu to crawl from under the sand and then run quickly to the water?
The honu rests on seaweed while in the water?

I'll  be happy to share  other things we have  learned about the honu with you. 

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Reminders for the Parents

Aloha Parents,

Each child has their login information for myON reader and completed the Interest Inventory.  They are eager to select books of their choice and begin reading online.  However, they need assistance from you.  I hope your child takes advantage of this literacy program and all it has to offer.

If your child wishes to share Halloween goodie bags with his/her classmates,  they can be brought in  before or on Monday, October 31.

Dates to Remember:

• Thursday, October 20 - Flu shots in the Library
• Friday, October 21 - Sea Life Park Field Trip.  Ms. Kanayama, Mrs. Miyamoto, and Mrs. Yoshikawa offered to chaperone.  Wear HMS t-shirts , shorts, and sport shoes. Come to school by 7:40am.  Bus will depart from school at 8:00am.
• Friday, October 28 - Fire Safety Booklets due.  Please use the booklet as a reference.  The children should discuss  the procedures on what to do in the event of fire. Kindly remember to  sign and date the last page of the booklet. 

Miss Spider's Tea Party

Miss Spider's Tea Party  was a funny book that was read to us.  It was about Miss Spider who invited  ants, ladybugs, and other insects that flew by to her tea party.  They didn't want to share tea and cakes with her because they thought she would eat them. However, she saved a moth who was  unable to fly because his wings were too wet.  When the moth was able to fly away, he told everyone how nice Miss Spider was. Many insects finally joined Miss Spider for  tea.  She ate the flowers and drank just tea.
There were two  things  we learned  from this story.  The first thing we learned was to  always be kind to people.  The second  lesson was to practice counting from 1-11.

What do you think about our spiders we made?

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Grandparent's Day Celebration

Saito Sensei has been teaching us many Japanese songs  the past few months so we could sing them to our grandparents at the Grandparent's Day Celebration. Today was our big day to honor them! We sang onstage in front of  parents and our loving obaachan  and ojiichan.  These are some of our thoughts about the show:
JI - I liked the singing.
EK - I had fun because we got to sing.
AU - I was happy because my grandmother and cousin came.
DB - I felt scared onstage.
RY - I liked to dance.
ML - I wished my grandparents came but they don't live here.
MM - I liked to sing and my 2 grandmas came.
DB - I liked when my grandprents took pictures.
TH - I liked the dancing.
SM - I was happy because my grandparents and mom came.

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Presentation of Learning About Apples

What an exciting morning for us when we invited our parents for our first Presentation of Learning.  We have been studying about  apples and  shared our learning with moms, dads, and grandparents. Do you think they knew as much as we did about this fruit?

Mahalo family members for coming to this event!!!!!

Apples, Apples, and More Apples

September, October and November are 'National Apple Months.  Our weather is too warm to grow apples, but we still enjoy eating them.  We have been studying all about apples and want to share some of our work. 



Reminders:

• Tuesday, October 11 - Presentation of Learning, K-1 classroom, 8:30-9:30am  Please bring a knife that will be used to cut an apple. (Apples will be supplied)
• Friday, October 14 - Grandparent's Day Celebration, Social Hall, 9:00-9:45am   

Halloween Scarecrows

Farmers  make scarecrows and put them in their fields to scare away birds, like the crows that would  feed on their crops. These are our funny, scary, and cool scarecrows.