Parent Connection: Feb. 21, 2013

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February 21, 2013

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Cheer Leading Club After School

Liz Hubbard and Rachelle Alayvilla have invited middle school students to join their Cheer Club. They are meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Weinberg Gym, from 2:45-4:00 p.m. starting now until the end of March, with the goal of performing at the Pep Rally on March 15th. For more information, contact Liz or Rachelle.

Shop for Higher Education at Foodland

Island School is just barely in the top 50! If we can maintain our rank, we will win a $2,000 college scholarship for a deserving senior. Foodland’s Shop for Higher Education program runs through March 19, 2013. Be sure to use your Maika’i card and designate Island School (#7532) to receive your points at checkout.

It’s Time To Add Your Ad

Have you ordered your Yearbook?

Have you reserved space for your business ad and your student recognition ad?

Rates: 200$ Full-Page 125$ Half-Page 75$ 1/4 Page 50$ 1/8 Page To inquire about an ad, contact Judah Freed at judah@ichool.org or Yearbook Business Manager,

Zebediah Wichert, at zwichert16@ ischool.org. You can order your yearbook online - click here or go to jostens.com.

The Auction is for the Kids (in more ways than one)

Check out these kid-friendly auction items: • Train Tour & Picnic Lunch for 36 • Party at Na ‘Aina Kai Children’s Garden • Ice Cream Party for 30 • 20 Happy Meals for an Event • Disneyland Tickets plus 3-Nights in a Kids’ Suite at Hyatt Orange County • 3-Nights at Aulani, a Disney Resort and Spa on O‘ahu • Model of the Black Pearl Pirate Ship • Treasure Map and a Treasure Chest filled with Pirate Booty • Keiki Party for 30 at the Grand Hyatt Kaua‘i Resort & Spa

The Auction is for You Sports & Adventure Enthusiasts

These items should be of interest: • Kamanu Composites 2nd Generation Canoe • 11’ Koa Surfboard • Hanalei Sail & picnic on the Meshach Trimaran • Kiahuna Golf Tournament & Pupu Party • 20 Rounds of Golf at Po‘ipu Bay

Click HERE for important dates •

Big Style Men’s Beach Cruiser Bike • Football signed by Minnesota Vikings, including Adrian Peterson • Cpt. Andy’s Na Pali Rafting Expedition for 14 passengers • 2 Helicopter seats on a Ni‘ihau half-day tour • Tubing, Sky-Diving, Fishing (w/ Sean Magoun), Zip-line, kayaking … (of course there’s more) The only way you can bid on these exciting items is to Be There! Reserve your ticket now. Call 246-0233. You can browse the auction items (there are over 400) at http://ischool. maestroweb.com/.

Reserve Your Room/Child Care at the Marriott Now!

Special room rates and child care for children ages 5-12 are available on Auction night. The deadline for both is Friday, Feb. 22. TOMORROW! Contact Daryl Edwards to make your reservations - daryl@ischool.org.

Gong Hei Fat Choy Students in PK-1 celebrated the beginning of the Year of the Snake on Tuesday with a Chinese dragon parade around campus!

Mahalo to Heather Barth for the double rainbow pic at the top of the page.

To contact the publisher of Island School’s Parent Connection, email peggy@ischool.org

I.S. Chronicles

Na Pua O Ka Maile performed at the National Tropical Botanical Gardens last weekend.

FIRST GRADE – Children have been reading and making books in the shape of the main character.

Those reading about penguins made a penguin-shaped book loaded with facts they learned about that animal.

Those reading Don’t Eat the Teacher,

by Nick Ward, will be writing about the main character, a shark, in a shark-shaped book.

SEVENTH GRADE – The entire class is at Camp Naue for an overnight retreat with their advisers, Mr. Devlin and Ms. Mariko.

We’ll get a report next week on how their trip went.

FOURTH GRADE – The class is in Koke‘e this week, at the Discovery Center. Watch this space next week for details.

SENIOR UPDATE – Bronson Griep and Braden Beck have been accepted at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. Cole Moore has been accepted at University of Mississippi (“Ole Miss”) in Oxford, MS. April Oo has been accepted at Creighton University in Omaha, NE, receiving a Founders Award. Adam Rick has Our Mock Trial Team will head to O‘ahu on March 23, been accepted at Ramapo for the State Championships!

College of New Jersey, in Mahwah, NJ; Seton Hall working on a formal lab report to University in South Orange, NJ communicate these results. and; Farleigh Dickinson University: College at Florham in Madison, NJ. THIRD GRADE – Below is a Kimberly McDonough, Matt Cinquain poem about the class trip to Cowden and Joy Claypoole have Grove Farm Homestead last week, by been accepted at University of Puget Makani Trask: Sound in Tacoma, WA, all receiving Plantation merit awards. Joy also received Grove Farm notice that she is a recipient of the Sand Covered Walls Hawai‘i Rotary Youth Foundation Worn books for studying Scholarship. Congratulations, Ancient seniors!

MOCK TRIAL – Students are throwing a Sadie Hawkins dance this Saturday evening, Feb. 23, to raise money for their trip to the upcoming Mock Trial State Championships on O‘ahu. The dance will be held in the Frear Center from 8:00-10:30 p.m..

Tickets are $15.

SOCIAL STUDIES – Western Civ. students in 7th grade MATH – In Algebra 1, students have begun their 14 week completed a cost analysis for research writing process. They are currently generating topics, Riley Silver’s drawing of Grove Farm Homestead. a potential business. For the business, the students selected an developing essential questions item they were interested in selling and practicing MLA style source SCIENCE – Conceptual Chemistry at school. Then, based on researched citations. In 6th grade, students students performed an experiment costs and carefully selected selling in the Elements of Culture class are that measured how temperature prices, they calculated break-even examining the various conditions that effects the solubility of a potassium points and potential profits or losses. allow diversity to produce cultural nitrate in water. Based on their data, Their results were then summarized blending and/or culture clashes, in they calculated saturation points at in a written report and presented to viewing The Gods Must Be Crazy! various temperatures and created the class. a solubility curve. They are now

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Parent Association Next PA Meeting Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:00 Teachers’ Workroom

Classified Ads WINTER CONCERT: The Mokihana Club sponsors a Winter Concert each year to raise funds for their music scholarship program and to bring island musicians to the community. This year’s concert features music teachers of Kaua‘i: Sarah Tochiki from KCC Wind symphony and Chiefess Band; David Braun from Waimea Canyon Middle School; Darryl Miyasato from Kaua‘i High School; Nina Saraos from the KCC Symphony Orchestra; and Julianne Hiu from Chiefess Band. The program is at 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. on Sunday March 10th. Refreshments follow at Lihu‘e Parish Hall behind King Auto. Tickets are only $10/adult, student/$5,and are available at Kaua‘i Music in Kapa‘a, Scotty’s in Kalaheo, Aloha Furniture in Lihu‘e and Magic Dragon in Princeville.

KAUA‘I CONCERT ASSOCIATION PRESENTS LEA SALONGA: Tickets: $40/adults /$20 students. Lea SalongaChien is a mezzo-soprano singer, actress, and Disney Legend from the Philippines, well known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards. She was the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and Fantine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway. She also provided the singing voice of two official Disney Princesses: Jasmine in Aladdin (1992), and Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004). For tickets, call 245-SING, visit a ticket outlet or goto http:// www.kauai-concert.org/tickets.html.

Mahalo to

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♥ ♥ ♥ the amazing Family Work Day crew: the

Edwards family, Donna King, the Morgado family, the Moore family, the Potter family, the Griep family, the Macklin family and the preK parents, Dirk Apao and family, the Beidermann family, the Kay family, Judy Byce, the Orsatelle family, the Whitney family, the Riopta family, Titus Kanehe and the Nishek family, the Millet family, the Magoun family, the Hubbard family, Joan Shaw, Adie Siebring, Daryl Edwards, Cindy Wortmann, Philip Steinbacher, Naomi Matias, Kori, Hobey & Braden King, the Spindt family, April Oo, Mabel Kha, Leila Breen, Kalena Wong, Imara Joroff, Genevieve Foster, Whitney Summerhays, Ivana Wu, Kelly Kay, Kristina Sheppers, Jacob Dysinger, and Michael McEvoy.

Also to volunteers from our renters - Kaua‘i Boy Scouts, Shotokan Karate group, Hawai‘i Children’s Theater, Po‘ipu Beach Rotary Club, and Kaua‘i Chorale. Many thanks to Dean Wakamoto, Kim Ganiron and Becky Swank for the great lunch they made and for their assistance with the 3rd grade pancake breakfast. Special thanks to Daniel Bicciche and Melissa Riopta for supervising and cleaning up.

♥ ♥ ♥ last trimester’s Foreign Language Clubs

instructors, who taught our elementary students on Wednesdays: Monica King (Italian), Catherine Barale (Chinese), Sabra Kauka (Hawaiian), Ita Rubio and Karen Summerhays (Spanish), Utako Fukada and Takuyo Takahashi (Japanese), Jessica Silver (American Sign Language), and Cristy Peeren and Ute-Anja McDonald (French). ♥ ♥ ♥ the fabulous team of 3rd grade parents, headed

up by Room Parent, Debra DeBusca for pulling off a very successful Pancake Breakfast last weekend. They grossed approximately $2000! ♥ ♥ ♥ our Treasure Island helpers for this week:

Lauren Hunt, Robin Pratt, Jen Pomroy, Laura Ryan and Richard Porto.

♥ ♥ ♥ the following volunteers who helped get the winter

Navigator mailed out: Lynn MacDonald, Heather Biedermann, Naomi Matias and Alan King.

5th Graders Take to the Stage Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale: Treasure Island March 1 & 2 at 7:00 p.m.

Ahoy, Maties. Join the cast of Treasure Island in an adventure on the high seas in search of buried treasure.

Island School’s fifth graders take to the stage on Friday and Saturday, March 1 & 2 in the Island School Theatre at 7:00 p.m.

The story features the young Jim Hawkins, a typical 10 year old boy, who is infatuated with stories of adventure and pirate treasure. While playing in his room, his imagination takes him to 18th century England, where a mysterious treasure map and a crew of mutinous pirates land him on Skeleton Island. In this production, the island is located in Polynesia, where the natives dance Tahitian and try to entertain marooned sailor, Ben Gunn. The audience will recognize the infamous Long John Silver, who limps about on one leg, sporting a silly-looking parrot on his shoulder. The dreaded “black spot” almost marks the end for a couple villains, but (spoiler alert!) everyone lives happily ever after.

Kathryn Schultz Miller, of ArtReach Children’s Theatre Plays.com, is the playwright of “Treasure Island.” Director, Peggy Ellenburg, appreciates her scripts for their flexibility and audience interactiveness. “Miller’s plays are some of the few I have found that cater to the child actor as well as to the child audience,” said Ellenburg, who has directed two other Schultz Miller plays, ‘Pinocchio,’ and ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes.”

Schultz Miller is one of the few playwrights that gives directors the freedom to make the script work for their particular cast, budget and venue. In this case, two Jim Hawkins play the role, one in the first half and another in the second. Also, changes in gender are allowed as the director sees fit. Dr. Livesey, for example, is a female doctor.

Treasure Island is a musical! Miss Rosie has been teaching the class sailor songs and sea shanties that give

the show a lively tone. Miss Ita has taught the natives of Skeleton Island how to dance Tahitian for their scenes.

Each year, Island School’s fifth grade class performs a play for their school and for the public. Parents lend their time and skills to the production, helping make costumes, sets and supervising rehearsals. Two high school interns, Kyle Riddle and Zach Beydoun (both sophomores) are participating as well, learning technical theatre skills and operating lights and sound.

The cast includes Rachel Dressler and Waileia Edwards, sharing the role of Jim Hawkins; Ki‘ilani Arruda, Jackson Gamby, Conor Hunt and Makena Jaeb as the Storytellers; Emily Binder as Jim’s mother; Brianna Ryan as Billy Bones; Ka‘ohu Ranis as Blind Pew; Corah Callahan as Dr. Livesey; Kailey Masters as Squire Trelawney; Sienna Martin-Oldfield as Captain Smollett; Lapis Dove, as Long John Silver; Maddie Conery, Kaikea Kaui, Kaeo Rezentes and Matthew Vickers as the mutinous crew; James Pratt as Honest Abe; Katie Cook, Patrick McKenna, Malia Splittstoesser and Janey Valente as the natives of Skeleton Island; and Makali‘i Oliveira as Ben Gunn.

“Treasure Island” is appropriate for all ages. Tickets are $4 in advance ($15 for a family pass) - slightly higher at the door, and are available from cast members, and the front office. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Come support Island School theatre!

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