February 28, 2014

Aloha P2 Family and Friends! We had another fun-filled week. In social studies, we started learning about Europe.

We learned that the Eiffel Tower is in the country of France. Did you know that you can go all the way to the top of the tower and look out at the whole city? Aunty Carmen told us that she has been to France with her family, and she even brought in some of the pictures that she took while in Europe.

On Thursday, we read a book called "Flat Stanley" by Jeff Brown. It is about a boy who got flattened by a bulletin board! He was so flat that his parents were able to send him through the mail service to California to visit his friend. The students talked about where they would go if they were flat and could be mailed; they said places like France, Arizona, Disneyland and so much more. Later that day, Ms. Kuulei surprised the class by showing them what she got in the mail, a flat Stanley! It was sent to her from a little boy named Houston, who lives in Wyoming and wanted to learn more about Hawaii. Each student got to write Houston a letter telling him something cool about the place where we live.

As a reminder, every Tuesday and Wednesday students can come to school early, and before class starts they can go to the D Field and run laps to earn tickets. Every time a student runs a lap they get a blue ticket, and the class who collects the most tickets wins a healthy lunch party! 

We could use prize incentives or man power or anything you think would help our kids stay motivated to rack up the miles. Our aim is to hit a million miles as a school before the end of the school year. If you are interested in helping in any way please contact Janice Blaber, Vice Principal (895-6671)

Finally, please don't forget Spirit Card monies are due March 7th. We are only accepting cash payments this year, so please no checks. Don't forget, the person who sells the most cards in the entire school gets either a free iPad or 2 Bruno Mars tickets. Have a great weekend everyone!

February 21, 2014

Aloha P2 Family and Friends! This week we created an informational book about the Winter Olympics. For our first page, we got to list and draw our four most favorite Winter Olympic sports. Janet's favorite sports included snowboarding, skiing, skeleton, and hockey:

For our next page, we created a "Parts of" page. We got to choose one of our favorite Winter Olympics sport, and labeled the equipment the Olympian needs to compete. Janet chose a skier.

Next, we created a "Fun Facts" page about the Winter Olympics. We each chose three of our favorite facts. We all learned so much about the Winter Olympics!

Author and Illustrator: Jennifer

Author and Illustrator: Marianne

This week we also concentrated on the main idea and details of a book. Our book this week was called "This Is The Way We Eat Our Lunch" by: Edith Baer. It was about the type of foods people of different countries eat for lunch. This is a fun activity that everyone can do at home!

On Thursday, our Spirit Cards went home in our Thursday Envelope. Each student received a total of 10 Spirit Cards. Each Spirit Card costs $10 each, and this year we can only accept cash payments. All monies and unsold Spirit Cards are due March 7th. This year, the grand prize winner (the student who sells the most in the entire school) gets to chose between an iPad or 2 Bruno Mars tickets, so sell, sell, sell! Also, for every Spirit Card you sell, you get a prize, so the more you sell the more prizes you get.

Finally, we would like to congratulate Colten for winning the kindergarten C.A.R.E. Kid of the week! Great job, Colten! We hope everyone has a great weekend. See everyone on Monday.

February 14th, 2014

Aloha P2 Ohana!

What a fun and exciting week this has been! To start off the week the kids learned all about Russia in Social Studies, the host country for the 22nd Winter Olympics. We got a special treat on Thursday when we discovered that we could live stream the Olympics in class! It just so happened that the men's figure skating was taking place that morning, and the kids were completely fascinated. They oohed and awed at every leap and spin!

We watched the men's figure skating while we worked on our "Olympic Rings" craft. 

We learned that each ring represents a different part of the world that participates in the Olympics. The kids colored in the rings first and then had to rip up tiny pieces of paper to glue on top of the rings. This gave it a cool 3D look!

Thursday was a fun-filled day as we also celebrated Valentine's Day that afternoon. We all made Valentine's Day cards to give to someone we love. Once again the kids ripped up tiny pieces of paper to show a loved one that they love them to "pieces". :)

As you know we celebrated Valentine's Day a day early due to our field trip on Friday. We all had a great time at our field day. The kids got to play kickball and flag tag, run an obstacle course, do yoga and dancing, participate in a running and skipping relay, and finally the competed with hula hoops to see who could keep theirs up the longest. Congratulations to Emma, our hula hoop champion! We would also like to give a BIG MAHALO to Jeff and Alana for being our parent chaperones. We couldn't

have done it without you!

February 07, 2014

Aloha P2 'Ohana!

We had such a fun week this week. On Thursday we celebrated our 100th day of school and the opening of the 2014 Sochi Oympics. To celebrate our 100th day in school, we did a whole day on the number 100. During our reading stations, we worked as a team to read 100 books, and we met our goal after just 1 hour! After each student read a book to a teacher they got a sticker to put on our class chart. It was so much fun to work together to reach our goal.

Next, for math we made a Fruit Cheerios necklaces with 100 cheerios. To help us easily count our Cheerios we first put them in groups of 10. Then after we were done counting our 100 Cheerios we got to string them and make a necklace.

Later in the afternoon, we did an art project using the number "100". With our imaginations we had to use the numbers to create a picture. Here's an example of some of our work:

Lastly, on Thursday we learned about the 2014 Sochi Olympics. We learned briefly about the different types of sporting events that make up the Winter Olympics (we even got to watch a highlight video). Next, we had our very own opening ceremony here in P2. Each of our table groups are named after a different country (a country each group decided on a couple weeks ago), so each table group created their country's flag by using our non-fiction social studies books as references. Then, each country got to march in our classroom's opening ceremony. 

Can you name each country's flag below? Your kids can!

We also read an awesome book this week called "How Full Is Your Bucket?" By Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer. We learned that we can fill each other's "bucket" by saying nice things to them. When our buckets are full we feel happy, but when our buckets are empty we feel sad or angry. On Friday, we each got a chance to fill each other's bucket. Each student got a piece of paper with another classmates name on it and we got to tell them something we appreciated and liked about them. It was so much fun filling our friends' buckets. It brought a huge smile to everyone's face. We enjoyed this activity so much that we are going to start doing this once a week! 

As a reminder for next week, we will be celebrating Valentines Day on Thursday, February 13th. We have a total of 20 students in our class (9 boys, 11 girls) , if you would like to bring something. Then on Friday, February 14th we will be going on our field trip. Please make sure your child comes to school with close-toed shoes and clothes that will allow them to participate in PE activities throughout the day. Please also pack your child a snack and lunch and plenty of water, as we will not be coming back to school until the end of the day. 

We would also like to congratulate Nelena for being a Kindergarten C.A.R.E. Kid winner this week!

We hope you have a great weekend! See you on Monday.