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!

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.

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.