February Newsletter

Holualoa Elementary School Newsletter
Febuary,3rd 2017
Upcoming Fffff
Events
Valentine’s Day
February 14
February 16
Teacher
Institute Day
(No School)
February 20
President's Day
(No School)
March 17
Spring Festival
Performances
For upcoming
events- see
http://holualoa
hawks.org/wp/
new-updates/
SPRING FEST
BAKE SALE!
Our P.T.O will be
needing volunteers
for our bake sale. We
welcome all baked
goods, jams jellies,
spam musubi, fruit
from your yard, etc.
Let’s make this the
best Bake Sale yet!
Watch for flyers
coming home.
Lisa Hummel
2016/17 Bake Sale
Chair
lisaggh@gmail.com
Principal
Glenn Gray
Happy February, Holualoa Ohana!
It's hard to believe that it already Mid Quarter and we are already well into the
second month of 2017. Our Holualoa School keiki are working hard. Here's
what's going on at Holualoa School.
-Holualoa students continue to work on improving reading ability and
skills. Students are decoding, blending, stretching, and clarifying questions
and answers about text in their reading classes.
-Holualoa School Students continue to develop math problem solving
strategies using our School-wide math program, Go Math.
-Students continue to use a variety of digital skills on laptops and computers,
including programs that help them type and even introduce t hem to
basic programming.
-Our students continue to explore gardening and science skills weekly outdoors
above the basketball court with our gardening teacher.
-Students continue to benefit from a variety of fun physical activities from our
P.E. teacher.
-Students continue to be excited to explore and check out books weekly at Mrs.
Aiona's library.
Holualoa Ohana, Mark your calendars!
Please join us at 8:30 on Friday, March 17th,
for our Spring Festival.
Holualoa School is pleased to announce that our Holualoa School Spring Festival
will be held before Spring Break this year. The festival will mark the coming of
Spring. The Holualoa Spring Festival has traditionally celebrated every year by our
young Holualoans.
Our theme this year is Ocean and Navigation. This festival coincides with the
Hokule'a's current trek across the Pacific.
Thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Hale, Shaula Tualaulelei, Kumu Leialoha, Tammy Aiona,
Janis Prinslow, and Romel and her custodial team for coordinating the event.
For the HEALTH of it!
Thanks so much for making every attempt to keep the snacks
healthy this year!
Healthy food has been proven to help you live longer, stronger, and happier (no matter
WHAT our kids tell us). Healthy foods include fruits, veggies, nuts, and whole grains.
We continue to encourage students to build good lifelong habits. We would like our
students to avoid saimin, large quantities of chips, cookies, and sugar coated
cereals. These items may increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and organ
failure as our children get older. Sugar drinks and candy are not allowed as a snack to
take to recess.
Mahalo for helping us build great habits and for making every effort to see that your
child is well nourished! Look for healthy snack ideas on the website under parents tab.
http://holualoahawks.org/

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Holualoa Elementary
Go, Holualoa Track Team, Go!
The Holualoa Track season started last month, adn it is off to a great start! Our young Holualoa
athletes are busily training and exercising every Sunday at the Konawaena High School
field. Mahalo Coach Laura Ankrum, Coach Duke Kell, Coach Mike Schiff, and Coach Heather
Melrose for coaching the Holualoa Track Team! The coaches have been hard at work with
enthusiastic group of young track and fielders. The team of kindergarteners to middle school
Holualoa alumni will be participating in two February county sponsored meets. Please join us to
support the Holualoa School Track Team at Konawaena High School. The meets will be held on
February 11th and 25th. We wish them all the very best!!
Congratulations to our VEX team the Circuit Breakers
They will be representing Holualoa at the state tournament in Oahu February 20h-
Wish them luck!
Grade 5 Holualoa Gallery Walk and Donkey Mill Art Center Art
Experience
Holualoa Elementary School and Donkey Mill Art Center (DMAC), recently participated in our first,
hopefully annual, Holualoa Art Tour and Art Experience for our Holualoa School 5th grade
students. Our two day event--a tour of participating galleries with art presentations by local artists
followed by an art experience at DMAC--celebrated art, nurtured art and creativity, and helped
our students internalize their wahi pana (sense of place)--to help ground and connect them to
who they are and where they come from before they venture into middle school.
Grade 5 Extends a Mahalo Nui Loa to:
Parent volunteers and chaperones
Donkey Mill Art Center and the DMAC art instructors--for collaboration on this event
Hawaii Police Department--for traffic control during our event
Holualoa Inn--for allowing us the use of their beautiful space for our picnic lunch
Participating Holualoa Village galleries, usually closed on Mondays, opened their doors for our
students on this day! The participating galleries were:
Holualoa Ukulele Gallery-- Sam Rosen** Kona Art Gallery-- Elizabeth Theriault
Holualoa Gallery-- Mary & Matt Lovein** Studio 7 Fine Arts-- Hiroki & Setsuko Morinoue
Mike Field Gallery-- Mike and Terry Field** Ipu Arts Plus-- Karen Root
A Work of Art Gallery-- Barbara Hanson & Kira Kamamalu** Glyph Gallery-- Ron Haake
Shelly Maudsley White Gallery-- Shelly Maudsley White

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Holualoa Elementary
Children’s
Savings Project
The Holualoa Elementary School Children’s Savings Project and Deposit Days are back in session! The
Children’s Savings Project is a partnership between Holualoa Elementary School, the University of Hawaii at Manoa,
and Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union to help promote the importance of savings and thrift to our youth.
Specific “Deposit Days” are set for students to bring in their deposits once or twice a month. Staff of Hawaii
Community Federal Credit Union will accept the deposits from the children and your child will receive a receipt and
small prize for making their deposit.
Deposits will be accepted on the following Wednesdays on the Mauka side of the cafeteria. Deposit Day banners
will be displayed as a reminder. Deposit Days*:
February 1, 15 **March 1, 15 **April 5,19 **May 3,17
For more information-- Youth Services Coordinator, Kristy Akao, at (808) 930-7649.
School Spirit Every Wednesday
Every Wednesday, show your Holualoa Hawk Pride by wearing your Holualoa t-
shirt or RED. T-shirts can be purchased now through Kari Kimura and delivered
to your student’s homeroom teacher- Check on the website for all the details!
http://holualoahawks.org/wp/holualoa-t-shirt-order/
kimura@alum.mit.edu

Heartfelt Mahalos from the Teachers and Staff
Mrs. Barte: Huge Thanks to Aunty Romel Kainoa and Hobbeheydar Ohana for wishlist items including straws, yarn,
paper bags, plates, and M&M's. Mahalo to Hazel Brackett for continuing to support our classroom. We appreciate
you!
Mrs.Haupert: Thank you to Dorough Family (Ka'io) and Dunfee (Toby) for the homeroom donations for our class! I
will be able to purchase incentives, and Science materials for our hands-on investigations! I also would like to thank
Wendy Mitchell for reading with our class once a week:)
Mrs. Prinslow: Thank you to all of the families who continue to educationally support their children by assisting
with homework, asking questions about their child's day, packing nutritious snacks, etc. What a difference it makes!
Mrs. Ichishita: Plain scratch paper for drawing, quart and gallon size ziploc bags, boxes of kleenex.
Mr. Rossman: Thanks to all parents for continuing to check your child's math and reading response homework
through your busy evening schedules. Thanks To Blanka Geesey for volunteering her hours at Holualoa School.
Thanks to Angie Hobbeheydar for all of her hours on the Newsletter and Holualoa School website.
Much Needed Wish List
Mrs.Barbara Haupert: Homeroom volunteer to copy materials and gift card to Costco for photo development and
healthy snacks for our homeroom.
Miss Cook: Our classroom would benefit greatly from a working pencil sharpener (or two) for her classroom! Her
reading students and homeroom students would all be very grateful! We would also appreciate some new sets of
classroom headphones." Thank you
Mrs. Hale: Costco gift cards for memory book photo development.
Mr. Rossman: Glue, Sanitizer.
Happy Valentines February the 14 th !