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!