Parent Connection: May 10, 2012

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May 10, 2012

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Sports Banquet - Friday, June 1 at 5:30 p.m.

Our KIF athletes from 2011-2012 will be recognized and individual awards from their coaches will be presented in the Wilcox Gym. The Blue & Gold award will be announced. Invitations are being sent out next week. Athletes and their families are welcome. There will be a lu‘au dinner beginning at 5:30. Athletes & coaches are invited free of charge; guests are $3 for dinner.

Aloha attire is requested. Tickets are available starting Monday through May 25, in the Office or contact Jen Pomroy at jenp@ischool.org. The Sports Banquet is hosted by the Booster Club.

Road Closure Thursday

Next Thursday, May 17, the Kilohana/ Kaua‘i Community College access road to Island School will be blocked

by KCC from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. by a large crane. Vehicles coming in or out of Island School via this route will be turned around.

Vehicles must utilize the Puhi intersection on that day. Mahalo for your attention to this.

HS/MS Talent Show Tomorrow Night

Studio, Pink Pebbles Crew and Breeze & Jaedyn Pavao of Hälau Ka Lei Mokihana O Leina‘ala.

Junior/Senior Prom May 26 The last day to purchase prom tickets is next Tuesday, May 15, at midnight. Island School Juniors and seniors and their guests are invited. Payments may be made in Liz Hubbard’s office or on our website - the cost is $60 per person. To pay online, go to http://diamondmindinc. com/island.html, fill out your credit card information and scroll down to ‘Payment.’ In the last field, ‘Other,’ indicate the amount, then specify PROM, followed by your last name and the names of your guests. For further information, contact Liz at liz@ischool.org.

Jump Rope & Hoops for Heart Packets Due

Please turn all collection packets in to Ms. Jackie or Ms. Sue by Friday, May 11. Thank you for supporting the American Heart Association.

Senior Phone-A-Thon

Student Government is putting on a Middle and High School Talent Competition this Friday, May 11, starting at 7:00 p.m. in the Wilcox Gym. Admission is $5 for Island School students, families and staff. In the spotlight will be Kenz Hubbard & Aliana Ho, Raina Silver, Sydney Agudong, Julia Massaro, Stephen Foster, Michael Miller, Margo Latif, Ian Cowden & Eli Smart, and Shawna Dinnan.

Special performances by Excel! Dance

Click on the Calendar tab on our website.

To date, we’ve collected $44,400 55% of our Annual Giving goal - and we need everyone’s help to finish the year out strong. Seniors will be calling members of the Island School ‘ohana who have not already made contributions to Annual Giving.

Host a German Exchange Student Next Year

Jan Kropelin, a sophomore boy from Hamburg, Germany, will be spending a year of study here at Island School.

His interests are tennis, swimming, and hiking. Jan is very excited to experience a new culture and to experience living with a host family. Families who are interested in hosting and would like to know more, please see Sean or email Sean at sean@ischool.org.

Sign Up For Summer School

Summer is only a few weeks away.

Island School has a wide variety of summer classes for children of all ages. Call the Office for details.

In support of Annual Giving, members of the senior class will participate in a PhoneA-Thon on Thursday, May 17 during 4th block (1:20-2:40 p.m.)

This is an opportunity for us to speak directly with past donors about their connections with Island School and increase contributions to help meet this year’s Annual Giving goal.

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

I.S. Chronicles experiments where all of the required information was provided. As the year progressed, the lab experiments became more open-ended. This trimester’s experimental design project is the culmination of this method where the students implement what they have learned into the designs of their choice. The students are designing experiments dealing with: optical refraction and Madison Moore balances on a rock as Francis color; momentum interactions of Green snaps a photo. colliding pendulums; conversion DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY – Diane of work interactions into internal Ferry’s students shot some spectacular energy and heat; and Conservation of photos of the surf hitting the rocks at the Energy predictions of mechanical chain Marriott Cliffs during their field trip on reactions.

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT – VIDEO PRODUCTION – A short “How Ka‘ohu Ranis, grade 4, and his sister, To” piece created by Mr. Evslin’s Video Mia Javellana, PK, are following in their Production students will be aired on tutu, Irmalee Pomroy’s, footsteps in the PBS’s Hiki No, the nation’s first statewide skill of lei-making. Each won awards in student news network, on May 17, at 7:30 the Kaua‘i Museum’s May Day Lei contest. p.m. The students have worked for the Mia’s lei won first place and she also won entire trimester filming and editing their an award for being the youngest lei maker. piece that shows how to replace the back Ka‘ohu won first place in his age division glass of an iPhone. The students who for his hala lei. Eighth grader, Raina were responsible for the majority of the Silver, competed in the annual Brown work on the file are juniors: April Oo, Bags to Stardom student talent event on Philipp Zaviryukha and Steele Bird.

O‘ahu last month. Bronson Griep, ‘13, The entire episode will be available to has been accepted to the LEAD Summer view online at www.pbshawaii.org/hikino Business Institute which provides after it is aired on PBS. participants with first-hand exposure to the business world through a residential FIFTH GRADE – The class is studying experience at a leading business school literature genres and elements. They and college recently focused on children’s literature campus.The and read to their “Little Buddies” in program, pre-kindergarten. This helped them held at to understand the concepts of style Stanford and theme as they relate to children’s University, books. The next step is for students to is designed write, illustrate and “publish” their own to children’s books. familiarize students PHYSICS – This trimester in Honors with various Physics students are designing, building business and performing their own experiments disciplines related to physics topics of their choice. through Throughout the year the Scaffolding classroom Method was used in lab experiments. study, group For instance, at the beginning of the projects, guest year students were given “canned” speakers

and hands-on projects. Cultural and recreational activities are also included.

MUSIC – The entire school was treated to a short performance by internationally celebrated violinst, Elizabeth Pitcairn.

She played the famous Red Violin for students at Morning Circle and Morning Meeting on Wednesday. A small group of musically inclined students were invited to attend a Master Class with Ms. Pitcairn, as she instructed Kim McDonough, ‘13, and Kirsten Malapit, ‘14. (See photo below)

STAFF ACHIEVEMENT – Kate Mink has been accepted as a Fellow to the 2012 Science Teachers Enrichment Program, given by The National Tropical Botanical Garden in conjunction with the Kaua‘i Community College, University of Hawai‘i. This program will be held in Kalaheo July 5-13, 2012. Together with top national science professors, participants in the program will explore tropical botany and pedagogy to invigorate science education in order to help motivate students to enter the field of science. Jim Bray spent two weeks in Nepal with a group of doctors and nurses from Kaua‘i on a medical mission. While there, he helped to dispense medications to children and adults from the local community. He shared his experience via a slide presentation at high school Morning Meeting.

BOTTLE MESSAGE – A bottle thrown out of Nawiliwili Harbor by 7th grader, Tanner Tavares in June of 2010, reached the shore of Irabu island near Miyakojima, Japan, 200km south of Okinawa. It was found by a fisherman, who posted Tanner’s message on his Facebook page!

Parent Page Mahalo to Parent Association

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♥ ♥ ♥ Michelle Fitzgerald & ‘Ohana and Hanalei Poi for donating poi for our May Day Lu’au and to Kaua‘i Nursery for lending the potted ti and palms used to decorate at May Day.

BIG HATS, BIG BOOTS AND BIG THANKS

to all of the parents who rallied together to make the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon a

BIG SUCCESS LAST PA MEETING OF THE YEAR The date has been changed to Thursday, May 31 8:00 a.m.

Teachers’ Workroom All parents are invited!

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PONO PLAYERS: Pono Players, the educational outreach arm of Hawai‘i Children’s Theatre, will hold a public performance of Bully Survivor on Tuesday, May 22, at 6 p.m. at Island School.

Admission is free. Bully Survivor is an original production created by its young cast members along with director Ed Eaton and manager Jessica Silver.

The production consists of two parts: the first is a short, involving play in which we see the effects of bullying on a young middle school girl; the second is an interactive role-playing workshop with a fun game show theme, in which audience members will learn skills to help end bullying, then have a chance to try them out. The target audience for Bully Survivor is students in grades 4 to 6, though it is appropriate for all ages.

The cast members range in age from sixth grade to young adult, with the majority being middle school students themselves. Several Island School students are in the cast: eighth graders Sterling Bird, Kaycee Lu, Makenna Olson, Raina Silver and Emily Threlkeld and 6th grader, Sydney Agudong.

The production was made possible by a grant from the Annie Sinclair Knudsen Trust. The aim of “Bully Survivor” is to raise awareness about bullying, and to give audience members some ideas for what each of them can do to help end it. We encourage everyone to come!

♥ ♥ ♥ Keana Oliveira and Lei Kurz for organizing costumes, doing workshops, and dressing the first graders for May Day. Also to all of the parents who collected ti leaves, helped make hula skirts, and paid for the costumes. A special mahalo to Reiko Louis who donated kukui nut lei worn by the entire class. ♥ ♥ ♥ alumni parents Kurt & Arlene Bosshard for contributing beautiful tropical flowers for our May Day event. ♥ ♥ ♥ Merlyn & Steven Ruddell for organizing Elizabeth Pitcairn’s violin concert and Master Class this week. ♥ ♥ ♥ Vaughn & Jim Beyer, Marie & Alex Bivens, Eric Bronstein, Mike & Debbie Goto, The Munroe Family, Jim & Dede Bray, Sonia Topenio and Alice & Joshua Pajela for supporting Annual Giving. ♥ ♥ ♥ Richard Fugmann and Robert James for a gift to Hawaiian Studies. ♥ ♥ ♥ BAE, Ronald & Jody Heller and SAIC for donations to our Kaua‘ibots. ♥ ♥ ♥ Michael Lake for a contribution to support the 3rd grade trip to O‘ahu! ♥ ♥ ♥ Isa Segismundo for creating beautiful hair pieces for the 6th grade girls to use at May Day, and to Valerie Rivera, Adeline Sears and Marie Manzano for helping the 6th grade pick flowers, string lei and prepare for their performance. ♥ ♥ ♥ John & Priscilla Hsu for a gift to Tuition Aid. ♥ ♥ ♥ Jim & Betsy Munroe for supporting the installation of the new trough sink for Na Pua Keiki.

KAUA‘I COMMUNITY PLAYERS: The Tony Award Winning play, God of Carnage is now playing at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse, and continues for two weekends. Tickets are available at www. brownpapertickets.com/browse.html. This show contains language unsuitable or children.

May Day Picture Gallery

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Paradise

by Margo Latif, ‘14 Some people wake up to the sounds of hate – Cars, beeps, and people in debates.

When they look up they see metal in the sky – Things constantly distracting them from the beauties of the eye.

When I wake up, I hear the waves on the sand I smell the fresh air, I grasp the world within my hands.

When I look up, all I see is blue Happiness in the air sparks a smile between me and you.

Through the day I feel a shadow covering me – When I look above, it’s the birds of Hawai‘i.

On an island like this, lights are very rare And going out to dinner, your feet can be bare Though we’re surrounded by a world that’s noisy and concise, Remember how fortunate we are to live in paradise.

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May 10, 2012 A weekly publication We’re on the web at www.ischool.org