2019 Children's Fair Mahalo

We Had Fun, Fun, Fun in the Sun, Sun, Sun at this Year’s Children’s Fair!

by Savita ’20

Aloha, today we’ll be talking about the assembly we had this week. During assembly we talked about the Children's Fair. Did you know they have been doing the fair for 95 years? This year’s fair was about coming together as a community. We also thanked all of the parents and faculty and students that helped with setting up this year’s fair, but also appreciated those who helped make our school logo. In total, the amount to lei that were made was around 80.  All of the lei were hand made and drawn by the children at our school. The lei were for all of the parents and faculty that helped our fair “come to life.” 

This year some of the kids were asked to share one of their favorite things they had/did at the fair, and why that was their favorite part. At the end of the assembly there was a slideshow that was presented about the highlights of the fair.          


Halloween Play Assembly

Po‘e Ka‘ahele Writes, Produces, and Performs Our 2019 Halloween Play…“The Darkest Alley”

By Kanalu ’20

This Friday for assembly, Po‘e 4th and 5th graders did a Halloween play. The Halloween play was about Laura, Lexi and Louis who all go trick or treating when something happens. A scarecrow kidnapped Laura and Lexi. The brother, Louis is trying to find help to get his sisters back. Louis has to defeat a Gobbler and a Queen. Some of the things they did in the Halloween play was a riff off, “surfing,” throwing bones, and hula. My favorite part was when the scarecrow kidnapped the sisters.




Music with Mrs. Abbe Assembly

Musical Traditions at Hanahau‘oli School

by Kainoa ’20

This week’s assembly was run by none other than Mrs. Abby (Mrs. Abby is our music teacher). So therefore the assembly was all about music and tradition! Classes from Kukunaokalā to Po‘e Ka‘ahele chose a song per home group that they thought was important enough to be passed on as a tradition.

First the Triangles from Kukunaokalā led us in singing “I Am What I Am.” A song that tells a story of journey. Next the Circles sang “Hanahau‘oli, You Are My Sunshine”. It’s a retake on the song you are my sunshine and it tells of how Hanahau‘oli is one big caring family. Next Kulā‘iwi shared the song Ho’omau Hanahau‘oli made by the children here at this school and our old music teacher Mr. Hirokawa. Next Po’e Ka’ahele led us in Ghost of John, a school favorite. Not last and not least Po’e Ka’ahele enters the ring once more with another amazing song, “The Button Factory.” (That one really made me move.) We sang a few more songs which were “On Top of Spaghetti,” “Singing in the Rain” and lastly, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” And that’s all for today folks.   


Kukunaokalā | Kulā'iwi | Po'e Ka'ahele

Our Multiage Classroom Names

by Alyssa ’20

Today at assembly, Uncle Blair taught all the new parents and students about our classroom names. He started off with “Kukuna O Ka Lā”. Kukuna means the beams, O Ka Lā means of the sun. Next, he talked about Kulā‘iwi. Kulā‘iwi means Our island home because “‘Iwi” means bones and "Kula" means large flat piece of land. Bones were buried at home in ancient Hawaiian times. So everywhere you go their are bones of our ancestors. In a way, we “stand” on our ancestors’ knowledge. Ali'i bones were hidden. Finally, Uncle Blair ended with Po’e Ka’a Hele. Po’e Ka’a Hele means the people who travel and that’s why Po‘e “travels” a lot. After Po’e Ka‘ahele, we closed with our school song. 

Our Hawaiian classroom names were graciously gifted to us by past parent, Auntie Lilinoe Ka‘ahanui (Nakoa ’03 and Nainoa ’07) when we became a multiage school in 1997. Kukunaokalā is grades K-1 and means “rays of the sun,” Kulā’iwi is grades 2-3 and means “our island home,” (KU- to stand, LA- light, day, sun, ʻIWI- bones of our ancestors - Standing in the light of those who came before; spiritual enlightenment, familial connection as to the reason you exist in any particular space) and Po‘e Ka‘ahele is grades 4-5 and means “the travelers.” JK and 6th Grade retain their grade level names. Mahalo, Auntie Lilinoe!



BEE-autiful Kukunaokalā Assembly

Kukunaokalā’s Bee Assembly

By Ava ’20

What a bee-utiful assembly Kukunaokalā (K-1) students performed for us. This assembly was based on our bees in the rainbow house, there was a hive living under a plank that was producing new bees every day. Kukunaokalā produced detailed drawings about bees, punts, a mini-play and had great costumes. I learned that it takes one bee 42 days to make 7 drops of honey, I am wondering how much time it takes to make a full bottle of delicious honey. I also learned that a queen bee can lay 2,000 eggs in one day! After Kukunaokalā laid all of the facts down they introduced a beekeeper they called Aunty Jasmine. She helped take the bees out of the rainbow house by finding the queen and without hurting any one of them.  Aunty Jasmine was at the assembly to answer any other questions that we had. There were a lot of questions, to a very interesting topic. Bees are a very wonderful insects to have in this society. If not for them, we would have almost no fruit as bees are responsible for pollinating flowers and we couldn’t enjoy smooth and sweet honey. I hope that everyone understands the impact and importance for humans.


6th Grade Camp Mokuleia Assembly

6th Grade Camp Assembly Blog

By Elle ’20

At our Friday Assembly, Ms. Gabby presented 4-5 birthday books. The Civic Club had an announcement about the Fair for the White Elephant and why people should donate their old stuff to the White Elephant. After the announcements, 6th Grade started our presentation about our trip to Mokuleia Camp. The Mokuleia Camp is when 6th graders go to a camp on the North Shore and learn fun activities. The activities help us by knowing we can trust each other and to be more comfortable around each other. By the end of our presentation our goal was to give the younger students a teaser of what camp is like. We mostly shared about the activities, how we did them and why we did them. The activities we presented were Riff Off, Toxic Pond, Pipe Line, Team Juggle, Cookie Machine and Group Sit. Of course there are more activities we did but we chose to show these because they were the safest and we had the props to do them with.