This week in How to Make an Apple Pie and Wow the World students travelled to three cities in France (Paris, Marseilles, and Lyon) and one city in Sri Lanka (Columbo). They learned several French words as well as some…
HNS Researchers Face the Microplastics Problem [Week 3]
This week’s adventure was to the zoo. The Researchers had the discussion about the ways zoos are important other than just seeing different animals that don’t live in Hawai’i. Also, the Researchers have been challenged with creating devices that can…
STEM: Science Olympics Build Bridges [Week 3]
Students in the STEM: Science Olympics class started off their week learning about the physics of a straw tower. They learned that triangle shaped bases are the sturdiest because the weight of the tower is evenly distributed. They used the…
The Little Journalists Can Do it All [Week 3]
This has been a busy week for the Little Journalists – along with writing pieces for their weekly newsletter (The Weekly Tea), they documented and wrote about two field trips that they went on. On Wednesday, they went to the…
Wearable Art Gets “Happi” [Week 3]
This week we had a field trip to the Honolulu Museum of Art where we learned about three different art mediums and had a short interactive tour of some of the galleries in the museum. In class, we began constructing…
STEM: Discovery Catapults into Week 3 [Week 3]
This week we learned to efficiently use materials to minimize our waste. To do this, we learned about a money system that incorporated our previous lessons on states of matter. Students were able to purchase materials as a group to…
Wet Weather Leads to a Quiet Week for Let’s Play Sports [Week 3]
This week has been a rainy one! We spent Monday on the courts until we got rained out, then went into the MPB for some indoor activities that included Zumba, Jan-ken-po snake, and a reaction time partner challenge. The next…
Driver’s Education Instructor Greetings and Updates [Week 2]
Hello Parents, Thank you for all you continue to support! Driver’s Education relies on parent involvement. We need you; together we can meet our safe driving goals. Our driver’s education class is going very well, and we are all in good…
After School Program Chunks out the Chalk [Week 2]
This week, we enjoyed making sidewalk chalk out of Plaster of Paris and tempera paint. After noticing that our chalk mixture was hardening too quickly on our first attempt, we went back to the drawing board and tried again with…
STEM: Science Olympics Forges Foil Boats & Paper Towers [Week 2]
In the beginning of the week, the class built boats from tin foil in an effort to hold the most pennies in a competition. If kiddos completed the penny challenge, they got to build even bigger boats – to hold…