The Explorers kicked off the week with a visit to Mānoa Stream, catching invasive species of fish with Mr. Cory. Midweek, guest speakers Ms. Jodie and Ms. Amber introduced etymology and native bugs. Students then created made-up insects, and even found resemblances…
Recycled Arts Create Shrinky Dinks and Friendship Bracelets [Week 2]
This week in the Recycled Arts class, students learned different braiding techniques to use on their friendship bracelets and necklaces. Students also started collecting materials for their mural from the field outside of their classroom. Students in the Recycled Arts…
HNS Researchers Choose an Insect [Week 2]
This week the students learned about insects and selected the one they would like to research. They also began their plant project to figure out which type of soil (sand, water, rock, or nutrient rich soil) grows the best plants.…
EV3 Complete Several ‘Bot Challenges [Week 2]
With our first week under our belts, our class began moving into our objective oriented tasks. Using what we learned about the various movement functions of our bot, the class started off this week with a mission that involved rotating…
Summer Games Learns Soccer and Ultimate Football [Week 2]
This week, just like the last, the Let’s Play Sports students participated in Zumba. Students in the class also learned how to play soccer and ultimate football. Next week, they will go further into depth with ultimate football. To give…
HNS Observers Learn All About Insects [Week 2]
This week in the HNS: Observers class, students started the week with a trip to Manoa Stream to catch the invasive sea creatures in our fresh water systems. The students then started their next topic, insects, by doing an animal…
Little Journalists Visit the Star-Advertiser and CPK [Week 2]
This week our journalists focused their interviews and articles on these classes: Robotics with VEX, Science Olympics, Driver’s Education, and How to Make an Apple Pie. In small groups, we read course descriptions, interviewed teachers and students, took photos, wrote…
2D Stop Motion Animation Projects [Week 2]
This week we started on our first 2D stop motion animation projects. This included brainstorming ideas, creating a storyboard, pitching and sharing our ideas with the rest of the class, starting production with a media of our choice (hand drawn,…
Wearable Arts Eat Pizza in Style! [Week 2]
In anticipation for our field trip of the summer to California Pizza Kitchen, we did our first tie-dye project using Summer Programs T-shirts! We also learned how to hem fabric by hand and continued working on our embroidered pins and…
Apple Pie Collects Butter and Heads to Italy [Week 2]
This week in How to Make an Apple Pie, we finished our adventure through England by making the first ingredient for our apple pies, butter. Now that we have our butter, we packed our things and headed to Italy. We…