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November 2014 Issue 4 Vol. 4
Cougar Chronicle
PRINCIPAL: Lauren O’leary
Kalaniana`ole Elementary & Intermediate School
27-330 Old Mamalahoa Hwy
Papa`ikou, Hawaii 96781
Papaikou, HI 96781
Vice Principal: Kasie Kaleohano
Vice Principal:
http://kalanianaole.k12.hi.us
Spirit of Thanksgiving
Jennifer Sueoka
Editor: Lorna Ganigan, PCNC
From the Vice Principal
by Lauren O’leary, Principal
by Kasie Kaleohano
As Thanksgiving and the holiAloha Cougar families. The holidays
days approach, I would like to
are rapidly approaching and now is the
take the time to focus on
some of the many things we can be thankful for time to give thanks to all who have helped
in our lives. There is so much such as: make Kalaniana`ole Elementary & Intermediate School a safe, positive place for
our children. In celebration of our families
1. An incredible faculty and staff that
and community who help to support our
bring their hearts and hands to Kalaniana'ole School each and every day, students, we will be hosting a Holiday Dinner on Thursday, November 20, 2014 in
our school cafeteria.
2. Amazing students that love to learn,
laugh, and work hard.
Flyers will be going home shortly
with information about the dinner. Please
3. Parents who nurture and care for our
RSVP by November 7 by sending the flyer
students in so many ways,
back with the required information. We
hope that all of you will be able to join us
4. A caring community that surrounds us as we celebrate the holidays, our students,
with generosity and care.
our school and our community. See you
there!
We are truly blessed as a school community to work and live in such a beautiful place and
have such a wonderful school.
Happy Thanksgiving to each of you and
your families. I wish you a safe and happy holiday season.
UPCOMING EVENTS
No School (Election Day)
No School (Veterans Day)
HSA Science (Grade 4)
Holiday Dinner
Ronald McDonald Assembly
(Grades K—2)
Nov 27-28 No School (Thanksgiving)
Nov
Nov
Nov
Nov
Nov
4
11
13-14
20
21
Nauane e Kalaniana`ole. . .“Moving Forward in the Right Direction”
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From the Vice Principal too...
Are You Smarter than a 3rd Grader?
Jennifer Sueoka
Kathy Tsugawa, Curriculum Coordinator
The holidays are approaching quickly.
Soon there will be the holiday hustle and bustle
starting with Thanksgiving and Christmas soon
to follow. Here at Kalaniana’ole, we are also
having assessments in November before the
Thanksgiving holiday. Please help your children
prepare for their assessments by making sure
that they have a good night’s sleep and a
healthy breakfast to start their day.
Each year students grades 3 to 8 are
asked to take an end of the year assessment in
English and math. Previously, students were
taking the Hawaii State Assessment , or HSA.
However this year, students will be taking the
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
(SBAC) test. This test is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and is administered
online. The test was designed to give teachers
and parents better information to help students
succeed.
Please have a safe and festive Thanksgiving with your families. We all have so many
things to be thankful for this year. I personally
am so thankful for the amazing faculty and
staff, administrators and students as well as
their families here at Kalani’anaole.
Included in this and subsequent newsletters, you will find a sample SBAC test item. This
month’s test item is from the 3rd grade math test.
The information presented in the table above
represents the type of question, depth of
knowledge and standards addressed. Below you
will find the rubric.
It is clear that the SBAC test is rigorous
and challenging and will require students to think
deeper. Teachers and students are working
hard every day to prepare for this test, but a key
component of student success is parental involvement. Please continue to work with your
child at home and communicate with their classroom teachers.
Parents, work with your child at home to
answer the attached SBAC test question and
write your name, child’s name and grade. Have
your child turn the sheet in to their classroom
teachers or to the school office. We will draw
one lucky winner each month who will win a mystery prize. Good luck and keep up the great
work!
“Relationship, Relevance, Rigor Succeed in Every Way with Cougar Pride”
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CORE VALUE OF THE MONTH
Aloha KEIS Cougars!
COURAGE
by Christina Wagner-Wright
by Julie Taniguchi, Counselor
Dear Kalanianaole Family,
It's fall!
The KEIS library
would like to remind you not to let your student
fall behind in their reading goals, and we have
just the books to do it! All students and parents
should be sure that all appropriate books read,
are entered into reading logs to ensure credit for
the reading a student is doing! This will help students to meet their reading goals for the 25 Book
Campaign!
October was bully prevention month. During the week of October 27-31, we made an extra emphasis on talking to our students about
bullying. The theme for the week was “United to
Stop Bullying.” The focus was, although we may
have our differences, we can make friends and
unite as one school to put a stop to bullying at
Please also remind your students to return
Kalaniana`ole.
books to the library, once they have finished
reading them. It is important to return them so
Every day, there was a different activity
aligned with bully prevention. On Monday, we other students can have the chance to read the
started off our week with a Kick-off assembly, books as well. Many of our books are in high deorganized by Kitana Lowery, Aui Joe Madiam, mand, with lots of other students waiting, so if
Mahina Kuehu and Rushell Lawrence. Tuesday you see a book that's collecting dust, remind
was Make a Friend day when the students made your student to return it! Grades K-5 should only
pledges to other students to be their friends. The have two books at one time, unless the parent/
students then tied their pledges to the fence on
guardian has come in to do the borrowing, and
Thursday. On Wednesday, the students decorated their classroom door around the week’s students should return ALL the books before
theme. Lastly, on Halloween Friday, students they borrow new ones. Grades 6-8 has a 3 book
dress up “differently.” This represented our differ- maximum, and it can be increased by student
ences, and that we should have the COURAGE request in the case of special projects or hometo be who we are. When we embrace our differ- work requirements in Middle School.
ences and come together, we can make Kalaniana`ole a safe and bully free school.
MORE exciting news, for one and all, we
have some new Nutrition books for students at
Speaking about courage… the core value all levels on display, and available to borrow!
for November is courage. Courage is not easy So come on in and check out our great books on
and must be developed. One of the most imhealthy eating, cooking, or even gardening! Stuportant skills we must learn is to have the courage to be ourselves. Have a movie night with dents and parents can easily see them behind
your child(ren). My suggestion is to watch either the reference desk and then borrow one of
Mulan or Frozen. Then after the movie, have a choice. I'd ask that for the first few weeks, you
discussion with your child about how the movie only borrow one at a time, of the newest items, to
portrayed courage and what they learned. Mov- ensure others have a chance to read them as
ies can be a great conversation starter and an well. I will also continue to place books about fall
awesome way to bond with your child(ren).
holidays, and volcanoes and storms out on display, as many of our kids have lots of questions
or curiosity about these topics at this time, due to
recent and ongoing events on our island.
“Be respectful, be respectful, be safe.”
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Paying Attention to Attendance
It is crucial that we pay attention to attendance from time to
time our children start kindergarten.
We all want a better life for our children and this improve quality of life is dependent
upon both a high school and college graduation.
There is a clear connection between attendance
to the elementary level and how well students
progress and achieve to the middle, high school
and college levels. We must therefore be strict
and diligent about making sure our children attend school from the very beginning. Why? Because absenteeism to the early grades will negatively affect the later years.
Kindergarten Changes in Act 178
Govenor Neil Abercrombie signed into
law Senate Bill 2545/Act 178. It requires
students to be five years old by July 31
to enter kindergarten, beginning with
the 2012-2015 school year. This requirement will affect children with birth
dates from August 1 through December
31, 2009. Act 178 also repeals junior
kindergarten programs in the DOE at
the end of the 2013-2014 school year.
Visit hawaiidoe.org or earlylearning.hawaii.gov for details
Title I
A Health & Wellness Fact
A note about sugary soft drinks (soda,
sweetened tea, lemonade, and juice
drinks)
Children who drink more
sweeten drinks consume more calories and are
more lokely to be overweight than kids who drink
fewer soft drinks. Soft drinks also displace
healthful foods in kids’ diets like milk, which can
help prevent osteoporosis, and 100% juice which
can help prevent heart disease and cancer. In
addition, soda pop can cause dental cavities and
tooth decay.
Vision Statement
“Working together toward excellence”
Mission Statement
“Kalaniana’ole School community will
work as a tem to have our students
meet standards to be successful in
High School and in Life”
Koa...Courage
Did you know...
Kalaniana’ole School is a Title I
school? What does that mean?
We receive Federal funds to ensure that all children have a
fair, equal and significant opportunity to obtain high-quality
education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on the challenging State academic standards.
Need a High School Type Diploma? Over 18
years old? Waipahu Community School for
Adults- HILO CAMPUS (WCSAHC) has the answer. We offer a Hawaii Adult Community
School Diploma. WCSAHC is fully accredited
by the Western Association of Schools and
Colleges. Please give us a call at 974-4100 or
visit us at Waiakea High School room P27."
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Middle School Science!
by Charoltte Godfrey-Romo
HONOLULU THEATER FOR YOUTH
Presents
In 6th Grade Physical Science we
are learning about chemical and
physical properties of matter. We did a lab
learning about pH and what it means. What
types of things are acids? What types of things
are bases? We used special indicator paper that
turned different colors depending on the pH of
the liquids being tested. The standards covered
in this lab were:
Hawaii State Science Standard #6: Nature of
Matter and Energy and benchmark SC 6.6.6- Describe and compare the chemical and physical
properties of different substances.
CCSS Math- 6.NS.C.6- Understand a rational
Quinton Babas with the HTY cast at the Palace Theater. Quinnumber as a point on the number line.
ton represented bananas flown in from Ecuador.
CCSS ELA RST.6-8.7- Integrate quantitative or
technical information expressed in words in a
text with a version of the information expressed visually (on a number line, in a data table).
Just look at the results below and think; what
am I wondering now?
On Wednesday, October 29, the entire student
body attended the Honolulu Theater for Youth
presentation of Grinds, a musical romp through
Hawaii's favorite subject...food. The play mixed
humor, history and science to explore our community's relationship with food.
Kanoe Lyman with the HTY cast. Kanoe represented fresh, locally grown produce that is nutritious for our bodies.
“Wisdom—Na’auao”