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May 2, 2013
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Free “Pirates” Screening Friday Night
In honor of the many volunteers who helped make the 34th Annual Auction such a great success, Island School will be hosting a free outdoor movie screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl this Friday, May 3, at 7:15 p.m. on the lawn in front of the Wilcox Gym! Please bring along your family and friends and join us to celebrate a job well done, congratulate our wonderful volunteers and enjoy a night under the stars. Free popcorn will be provided! This is a non-alcoholic event. Kindly RSVP your attendance to Daryl Edwards: daryl@ischool.org or 246-0233 x224. We hope to see you there!
Another Summer School Offering
Learn to invent and build projects with electronics & software - with your very own inventor’s kit! For ages ten and up. Projects include: a wearable badge with LEDs that blink to music; a motion detector alarm to protect your valuables; pulsing LED light strips/Christmas lights; an obstacle-avoiding autonomous robot. You’ll learn principles of electronics and software programming, as well as how to quickly turn your ideas into something real. June 15 - July 20, 2013, Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. $220 tuition includes 6 classes and your own inventor’s kit ($100 value). Each inventor must provide a laptop. NOTE: More complex projects may require additional costs for
components. For more info: contact Scott Libert (scott@kauailabs.com)
Prom Deadline Tomorrow!
Juniors and seniors who haven’t purchased their tickets to “A Night Among the Gods,” have one more day! Tickets are $75. Contact Liz Hubbard for more information at liz@ischool. org. Prom will be held on Sat., May 25.
Friday Do Drop Inn Schedule
Children planning on spending Friday afternoon, after the May Day program, with Mr. Dean, should follow these instructions: )) Those bringing lunch or who have purchased lu‘au tickets and are not eating with their parents, should meet Mr. Dean in front of the keiki bathrooms right after the program. )) Those eating lunch with their parents should meet Mr. Dean in the Weinberg Gym at 12:00 noon. Do Drop in pick-up time is the same as usual.
Click HERE for important dates Kilohana and KCC property line boundary, and the west gate, near the college’s Chinese gazebo as follows: Mon– Sat: Closed 10 p.m. - 5 a.m. Sundays: Closed all day The college is concerned with recent security issues late at night on their campus. The Puhi Rd. access to Island School is not affected.
May Day DVD Orders
This year, our enterprising Video Production students, with Mr. Evslin at the helm, are filming our May Day program. DVDs are $20 each, and proceeds will go toward more equipment for this class, which will continue to expand next year. http://diamondmindinc.com/island. html. Scroll down to the last line in ‘payments’ and specify ‘MAY DAY DVD’ in the box. Orders must be in by May 6th.
Trimester 3 Midterm Reports Emailed Today
Can you spend an hour or two and help decorate the gym for May Day? Refreshments will be provided. It’s all part of the May Day tradition.
Middle and high school students and their parents will receive mid-term reports via email this afternoon. They will also be posted in RenWeb. If you do not receive one, or if you’d prefer a printed copy, please contact Katie at katie.magoun@ischool.org.
KCC Bypass Road Closes Evenings & Sundays
Help Needed for “Navigator” Mail-Out
Help Decorate Today After School
Kaua‘i Community College will close the Kilohana/Chinese Gazebo bypass road to vehicular traffic beginning, yesterday. Until further notice, the college will close the gate at the
The Spring “Navigator” will be ready to mail on Tuesday, May 7th. If you have an hour or two to spare, please email Peggy at peggy@ischool.org to arrange a time. Mahalo.
To contact the publisher of Island School’s Parent Connection, email peggy@ischool.org
I.S. Chronicles night, I fell off of the bunk bed. My mommy checked if I was all right, but I was asleep. So mommy put me on the lower bed. We played hula hoops and volley ball. I wish I could go to Naue again.
Above are pinhole photos made on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day by Braydon King, 4th grade (top), and Tobey Troost, 3rd grade. Visit the WWPPD website to see the postings from around the world: http://www. pinholeday.org/gallery/2013/index. php?formType=list&f_
SECOND GRADE – The class spent the night at Camp Naue in Haena last week. They had a great time enjoying our beautiful north shore. Below is a description of their field trip by Liko Edwards. Our last class field trip was at Camp Naue. Our class went swimming once each day . We went crab hunting in the late afternoon. We had s’mores and with a bonfire. In the middle of the
Our elementary team at the Mayor’s Age Group Track Meet last weekend.
ENGLISH – As part of their study of Fiction, eighth grade English Third graders got first-hand experience paddling students have recently canoe for their May Day dance at Nawiliwili Bay. completed a poetry recitation project. Students Malaria reducing nets to African were able to select from a list of poems children. Malaria is one of the leading by notable poets such as Langston killers of African children and is the Hughes, Walt Whitman, Emily cause of 200 million illnesses per year. Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Malaria can be prevented by spraying and Shakespeare. Students then insecticides or by sleeping under memorized and recited their poems in long-lasting insecticide bed nets. The front of the class. In this way, students Interact Club in collaboration with were able to integrate the skills they the Nothing But Nets campaign will learned in the first trimester Public provide these nets. Each life saving Speaking with their third trimester net cost $10 and the Interact Club exploration of poetry. Ask your eighth will be collecting donations outside grader to recite his or her poem! the main hall on May 2, 9, 16, and 23.The Interact Club will also be SURFING – Congratulations to holding bake sales during school Soleil Errico, 6th grade, who was hours on Thursdays. All proceeds in the top six in the shortboard will be allocated to the Nothing But competition at the Hawai‘i Surfing Nets campaign on May 30, 2013. Association State Championship. In We look forward to your support addition, Soleil and Kelta O’Rourke, for this worthwhile cause. For more grade 7, made the semi-finals in the information please contact the Island Longboard comptition. Natalia Smith School Interact president, Margo Latif ‘14, was the winner of the Longboard at mlatif14@ischool.org. competition! Congratulations to our surfing athletes! ENGLISH–Mr. Bray’s Honors Great Works students will perform a staged TRACK – Our elementary team took 3rd reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning place in last week’s Mayors Age Group play by Archibald MacLeish, J.B. on Track meet. Third grader, Dwight Apao Tuesday, May 7, at 7 p.m. in the Main earned the Male Athlete award! Hall. The play is a contemporary telling of the Story of Job from the SENIOR UPDATE – Ava Zebzda Bible. Admission is free. The two hour received a Mamoru and Aiko Takitani show is written in free verse. “J.B. Foundation scholarship in recognition tells the story of a twentieth-century of demonstrated scholarship, American banker-millionaire whom dedication to community and God commands be stripped of his commitment to excellence. family and his wealth but who refuses to turn his back on God. J. B. learns INTERACT CLUB – The Interact that there is no justice in the world, Club, in hopes to help people that happiness and suffering are not internationally, will be fundraising deserved, and that people can still during the month of May to send choose to love each other and live.”
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Several spots are still open for parents to help at the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon, Mucho Mahalo. If your email from Leah got buried, please contact her at edwardsohana@hawaiiantel.net to volunteer. Next PA Meeting Tuesday, May 7 at 1:00 Teachers’ Workroom Anyone who can stay after to help with the Spring “Navigator” mail-out would be appreciated.
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FREE CONCERTS: Kaua‘i Community College Instrumental Music presents their 2013 Spring Concerts at the KCC Performing Arts Center: Friday, May 3rd at 7 pm.- Wind Symphony & Jazz Ensemble. Sunday, May 5th at 3 pm. - Symphony Orchestra (Donations will be accepted) WORKING, A MUSICAL: Opens this weekend at Puhi Theatrical Warehouse. Runs for three weekends, closing May 19. Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 4pm. Tickets are $25 in advance, $27 at the door with discounts for KCP members, seniors and students. $5 off opening weekend! On opening night there is a reception after the show with the cast and director; refreshments will be served. For tickets, go to www.kauaicommunityplayers.org and press the “Brown Paper Tickets” button, or call 800-838-3006. For information, call 245-7700. Limited seating; don’t wait! WORKING is a wonderful musical, comprised of monologues and songs based on the famous interviews by Studs Terkel with workers in Chicago who talk about their jobs; these interviews were the basis for Terkel’s hugely successful book of the same title. The cast
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♥ ♥ ♥ Pepe Trask for arranging the 3rd grade paddling experience with Kaiola Canoe Club ♥ ♥ ♥ the parents who accompanied the class on the first grade overnight camp out to Koke‘e, and cooked, cleaned, supervised activities and chaperoned. ♥ ♥ ♥ the 20 third grade parents who spent three days helping on the class trip to O‘ahu last week. ♥ ♥ ♥ Richard Porto for his help this week in 3rd grade drama. ♥ ♥ ♥ Liz Hubbard, Sean Magoun and Katie Magoun for assisting with the Mayor’s County Track Meet. ♥ ♥ ♥ the 2nd grade parents who helped out at the class overnight at Camp Naue.
includes 12 of Kaua‘i’s finest actor-singers, directed by Ross Martineau with Arnold Meister providing musical direction and performing. Alan Van Zee accompanies. FREE COMIC BOOK DAY: At Princeville Public Library. Saturday, May 4. FREE special issue comics to patrons who show their library card one per person: DC Comics, Marvel, Disney Fairies, Sesame Street, Star Wars. 1:00 pm showing of movie Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasures Contact: Michelle Young, Branch Manager, 8264310. KAUA‘I CHORALE 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SPRING CONCERT: “Thanks for the Memories” Saturday, May 11, 7:30 pm, KCC Performing Arts Center. Sunday, May 12, 5:00 pm, St Regis Princeville Resort. Adults $10; $12 at the door; Students $5. Ticets: Lapperts - Princeville & Kukuiula Shopping Center, Kilauea North Shore Pharmacy; Kauai Music & Sound, Pono Market, Zack’s Frozen Yogurt, Kukui Grove Pictures Plus, Kalaheo Coffee Co, Scotty’s Music, Hanapepe Talk Storey Bookstore, Wranglers Steakhouse. Contact: Lana Coffman, (808) 651-9994.
M a y D a y T o m o r r o w - 9:30 a.m. The week has been filled with preparations!
Rehearsing, setting up, making lei, decorating, rehearsing, braiding hair, rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing!
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