April 25, 2014

Aloha P2 'Ohana! As always, we had such a great week. We started our week off by getting presented with a trophy from Ms. Samson and her dog-friend (puppet) Sippi, for having the best attendance last week out of all the kindergarten classes. Yay! Great job P2! We can't wait it win another one.

On Wednesday, we wrote about our favorite book, as well as tell what it was about. We found out that we all liked all kinds of different books! There must be a lot of great books out there. Some of us wrote about a fiction book, and others wrote about a non-fiction book. Everyone is getting so good at writing! We are so proud of all the students.

"My favorite book is Snow White. It is about Snow White and a old lady who killed Snow White with a poison apple, she came alive with a kiss."

"My favorite book is the Ugly Duckling. It is about a duck who was an ugly duckling. He was gray, at the end he was a beautiful geese."

On Thursday and Friday Ms. E subbed for Ms. Jennings (who was at a training). We had so much fun with Ms. E, she knows so many fun songs to help us learn about all kinds of things!  On Thursday, we learned about sea animals. We learned how to tell manta rays and sting rays apart, when an octopus is angry, and so much more! She also brought in a movie with songs and real sea life. We were captivated with the beauty of these sea creatures and realized how lucky we are to be surrounded with most these creatures in Hawaii.

We hope everyone has a great weekend! If you haven't turned in your permission form or money for our field trip to WHEA, please don't forget to bring it on Monday. See everyone on Monday.

April 18, 2014

Aloha P2 'Ohana! We had such a great week this week. On Monday, for writing, we got to create our very own "Would You Rather" cards. "Would You Rather" is a game that we have been doing in class that helps us with our opinion writing. This game teaches us that in order to write a good opinion piece we not only have to give our opinion, but also have to support our opinion by telling why we feel a certain way. Here are some of our creative ideas that the students came up with:

"Would you rather go to visit the Effiel Tower or go visit the Statue of Liberty?"

"Would you rather ride a dragon or an elephant?"

"Would you rather go to school or never go to school?"

"Would you rather have a pet dolphin or a shark?"

This week we also got to have a Healthy Lunch Party because we ran/walked the most miles out of all the kindergarten classes! Mrs. Blaber brought us 3 veggie pizzas from Costco, as well as a vegetables, fruits and orange juice. It was so yummy! We are still walking/running every Tuesday and Wednesday morning before school so that we can win and get another Healthy Lunch Party. So far as a class we have already have collected 122 blue tickets which is equivalent to 30 miles! Great job P2!

Lastly, this week we each wrote letters to a student in P-19. This 5th grade class is gearing up to take their HSA's. We wrote them letters of encouragement to do their best on their tests and let them know that we believe in them. 

"Be good at HSA and do HSA Jayson! I know you're going to do your best!"

"Do your best at math and do your best at math because I am going to be your B.F.F."

We hope everyone has a great three-day Easter weekend! We will see everyone on Monday. Happy Easter.

April 11, 2014

Aloha parents and families!

This week Ms. Ku'ulei did her third and final week of her student teacher takeover. (Don't worry! She isn't leaving us yet!) The kids learned a lot from her this week! 

This week Ms. Ku'ulei read the kids a book that is all about bats, who are pretty interesting animals. They are the only mammals that can fly! On Monday when she read the book the kids learned about some brand new words like echolocation, colonies, and pup. Ask your keiki if they can tell you what these words mean! 

On Tuesday Ms. Ku'ulei taught the kids about cause and effect using the bat book. For example, when the weather turns cold in the winter that creates two different effects for bats. One is that some bats migrate to a warmer location. The other is that some bats hibernate in caves.

This week the kids got to try out something new and exciting for reading. Ms. Ku'ulei gave them each an illustration and she told them that the author forgot to write the words to match! So the kids needed to help. 

Once upon a time I saw three ants going into the basket and I named them Tippy, Wennady, and Cose Cose and they stole my sandwich!

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I see 3 ants climbing my basket I don't like it.

The kids got really creative and they did so well that Ms. Ku'ulei had them do the same activity again on Thursday, this time telling them their story needed to include a beginning, middle, and end. The class got really into and developed some excellent stories. What a great group of authors we have in P2!

One day Puppie got dirt all over his feet because he rode over the dirt. I put him in the tub. He come to me.

Once upon a time there was a dog in the bath. The dog was bathing. The dog was stuck in the bath.

Our class also won best attendance for Kindergarten last week! That means our class had the highest percentage of kids in kindergarten come to school every day and on time last week. Greats job parents getting your kids to school!

Hope you all have a fun and safe weekend! See you on Monday!

April 04, 2014

Aloha family and friends! We had so much fun with Spirit Week this week. Thank you to everyone who helped their child get dressed up each day. For "Twins Day", we were twins with Ms. Encarnacao's P1 class. We all wore blue jeans, a black shirt, and our hats sideways. It was so much fun to match each other.

On Monday, since we've been learning about Hellen Keller, and interested in Braille, Aunty Carman brought a worksheet that had the entire Braille alphabet on it. We had so much fun trying to decode Braille words and learning to spell our own name:

Can you use the braille alphabet to decode these animal names and one of our classmate's name?

For writing this week, we wrote an opinion piece about if we would rather be deaf or blind. Many of us wrote that we would rather be blind because reading Braille would be really cool. Others of us wrote that they would rather be deaf so that they can still be able to see beautiful things.

"I would rather be deaf because I can sleep good."

On Thursday, we finished our last chapter of our a kindergarten math curriculum! We are now starting our "Getting Ready for First Grade" portion of our math book. In this section, we will first review some of our math skills that we learned earlier in the year, then we will begin adding doubles, subtraction, numbers 20-50, and even beginning to tell time! We are going to be so prepared for first grade next year!

We hope everyone has a great weekend! See everyone on Monday.