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August 23, 2012
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Breaking News Friendly New Face in the Front Office
Amanda Nunez has joined our administrative staff as our School Secretary, taking over from Sarah Antone. Amanda comes from the East Coast where she worked for the past seven years as the administrative assistant/HR coordinator for the publication, USA Today. Please stop by and introduce yourself the next time you’re on campus.
Welcome Nick Lynch
A wonderful addition to our social studies department is Nick Lynch. Nick received his M.A. in Humanities from Cal State University at Dominguez Hills and a B.A. in government from St. John’s University in Minnesota. He’s been a social studies teacher and department head, a math and language tutor and, most recently, the athletic director at Waimea Boys and Girls Club. His all-around experience will be a great benefit to our middle and high school students.
Asbestos Protection
On October 30, 1984, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency promulgated regulations pursuant to the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Act, which requires schools throughout the nation to conduct training, write building management plans and perform inspections necessary to identify and manage asbestos containing materials found in school buildings. Island School’s Asbestos Management Plan is located in the Business Office and is available for public view.
Student Gov. Fund Raiser
Student Government students are selling $5 Macy’s passes for Macy’s Shop for a Cause event. 100% of your $5 supports Student Government’s efforts to send students to a Mainland leadership camp in February. Macy’s purchases made with the pass on Saturday, August 25, will receive a 25% discount all day. Look for SG students in front and by the elementary garden after school on Thursday and Friday.
Three New Buses Blessed A short ceremony blessed our new buses and their drivers during
Click HERE for important dates Morning Circle on Tuesday. Members of our hula halau and Kumu Kauka performed an oli aloha for the group of students gathered on the front steps of the school. A new crop of middle school students are learning the kani ka pu, or blowing of the conch shells. These buses were purchased with the help of Matson Navigation and Akita Bus, who made them affordable to us.
Gift Wrap Sale Kicks off Monday!
The school-wide gift wrap fund raiser kicks off Monday, August 27. Packets will be sent home with the elementary and middle school students on Monday. Incentives and fun competitions have been planned for the participants. There will even be a special offer for IS teachers. All profits will go into the individual classroom accounts. Last year the elementary and middle school students raised more than $7,500 to use for retreats, field trips, outings and classroom activities. This year, the high school classes and clubs are also welcome to participate. Packets will be available for high school students in the teachers’ workroom. Online ordering will also be available at www. gaschoolstore.com. Island School’s online store ID is 2198281. This is a great time to renew your magazine subscriptions and to purchase wrapping paper for the upcoming holidays. For more information, contact Monica King at amking@ hawaii.rr.com, or 332-7667.
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I.S. Chronicles the form of a recipe. Here’s an example: To create this sweet and sparkling 8th grader, start with a family of four in Lihu‘e. Add a heaping cup of gymnastics and a tennis match and let chill overnight. Gradually add soccer cleats and the goal of Kindergarten students visit the Ms. Valerie and Ms. being in the Olympics. Melissa in the accounting office. Sift in a pet gecko named KINDERGARTEN – Ms. Oscar and a phobia of bugs Shantelle’s class read We Went Bake for thirteen years and serve Walking, by Sue Williams. Then with a dream to grow taller. they took their annual walking Some of the recipes are wonderfully tour of the campus. They visited complex and hilarious. all the elementary classrooms, the administration building and all HAWAIIAN STUDIES – The the other areas they will be using Hawaiian word of the month is li‘i, or throughout the year. At each stop, little. Kumu Kauka’s students have they took a photo and recited a been hunting for little things around passage they learned from the book: the Frear building: a small flower, a “We went walking, what did we see? tiny ant or a pebble. So far, they’ve We saw [person or class they are found some amazing things. visiting] looking at us!” With the photos, students will make red and PRE-K – Students practiced their green footprints and make a book of hand washing skills this week prior to their great adventure. The book will visiting “Germ City,” where a special become a traveling book and travel to light showed the spots where germs each student’s home for a visit. were still lurking. DRAMA – High school students auditioned for roles in the fall play, Skinflints and Scoundrels: Moliére’s Miser, which will be performed the first weekend in November. The cast was announced today and includes: Braden Beck, ‘13, Shawna Dinnan, ‘15, Stephen Foster, ‘14, Quinn Hannah-White, ‘13, Imara Kindergartners visit Daniel in the lunch room Joroff, ‘14, Rayna Silver, on their campus tour. ‘15, Zebediah Wichert, ‘15, Christy Jo Williams, ‘14, EIGHTH GRADE – In homeroom, and Ava Zebzda, ‘13. Several other the 8th grade girls are getting to students may be joining the cast. know their classmates by writing They will meet tomorrow, August 14, biographical recipes. They partnered for a reading of the play, from 3-4:30 up and did a series of interviews. in the Main Hall. Our physics teacher, After collecting enough information, they wrote their partner’s life story in Dr. Kozak, will also play a role!
Mia Javellana and her PK classmates played with bubbles in the Courtyard while waiting their turn to visit Germ City. Below, Apollo Truong and Mr. Bac the Bacteria get ready to see if their hands are thoroughly washed.
HIGH SCHOOL RETREAT – Packets were sent home yesterday with all high school students with important information about their retreats which will take place next week, Thursday, August 30, and Friday, August 31. The retreats are organized this year by class. Juniors and seniors will have overnight retreats, and the freshmen and sophomore retreats will take place over the two days, but not overnight. The retreats are designed to be “low-tech” experiences, promoting relationships among the people attending. Therefore, students have been advised to leave their cell phones and other electronic devices at home. School phones will be available for emergency purposes or for parents to contact their children should the need arise. Parents should review the materials in the packets and sign and return the liability form ASAP. Contact Liz Hubbard at 246-0233 or liz@ ischool.org for more information.
Parent Page
Parent Association
The Fall Round-Up Sub-Committee
is forming today at 1:00 p.m. in the Teachers’ Workroom. All parents and grandparents are invited to join in the fun to help plan this annual Island School family event.
Gift Wrap Sale Begins Monday Details on page one!
New PA VP!
Congratulations and mahalo to Sandy Catlin, who has stepped up to be Vice President of Parent Association!
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Mahalo to
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♥ ♥ ♥ Mike Goto and his crew for the set-up/take-down
of tents etc. for both the Parent Association’s MS/HS and Elementary Fairs.
♥ ♥ ♥ Bobbee Downs, Gaye Miller and Sean
Evans for assisting with auditions for the high school play.
♥ ♥ ♥ the Eto Family for their donations to the
costume collection.
♥ ♥ ♥ the following generous people for their donations
to Annual Giving 2012-13: Ada Guerber, Sean Head (class of 2002), Lifeway Pharmacy, Milton & Henrietta Kushkin Fund of the Hawai’i Community Foundation and Joan & Rick Shaw. Also to Chet & Tish Hunt, Cora Sue Meyer and Sally Mist for their contributions to Annual Giving in memory of Judith W. King.
♥ ♥ ♥ Diana Loomis Dahl for her donation to the
Gannon Loomis Memorial Scholarship.
DANCE CLASSES: Ballet & Hip Hop classes after school with Jennifer Bell-Grey. NEW Primary Class for ages 3-5 - needs 5 students to start. Complimentary trial class will take place in the Frear Center on Wednesday, September 5, 2:55-3:15. Current classes on offer in the Frear Center: Mondays Hip Hop 1 & 2 ages 5-9 3:00-3:45 Ballet 2 ages 7-9 3:50-4:50 Ballet 3 ages 8-13 4:55-5:55 Wednesday Hip Hop 3 & 4 ages 11-16 3:15-4:15 Ballet 3 & 4 ages 9-16 4:30-6:00 For more information: 823-9588 or info@kauaidancecenter.com. Also, visit www.kauaidancecenter.com.
♥ ♥ ♥ Common Ground, Charlie Cowden, Laura
JARS WANTED: Small glass jars with lids needed for Hawaiian Studies projects. Please deliver to Kumu Kauka at the Frear.
VIDEO OPPORTUNITY FOR TEENS: Join Kaua‘i Youth In Motion for a ten week, after school program to participate in an anti-bullying video. Participants will get together twice a week to prep-produce, shoot and edit the final video. You can be in front or work behind the camera, or both! No prior video / filmmaking experience necessary. The video will be posted on Youtube, Hoike Television. This session starts September 5, 2012. For more information contact, Renate Seldon at 245-5959
TUTORING: Available after school for grades K 5. Contact Cynthia Shimogawa at 651-9804 for further details. FREE TO GOOD HOME: Pure bred Beagle, female, spayed, 3 yrs old. Great with kids! Call Rosalind at 651-0729.
& Ralph Cushnie, Dr. Albert H. Halff, Kukui Grove Center and Matson Navigation for gifts in kind to Island School!
♥ ♥ ♥ Lisa Leggett for the large art supply donation:
paints, canvas, brushes, and many great art tools! Also to Kenny Ishii for continuing to supply the art room with egg trays from his restaurant, Ono Family Restaurant.
♥ ♥ ♥ Donna Morrison for donating books to the
math and science departments.
♥ ♥ ♥ Lapis Dove for her donation of books to the
LRC.
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your child’s nature even if he’s shy, stubborn, moody or not great at math. The rabbis caution: If your child has a talent to be a baker, don’t ask him to be a doctor. 8. Resist taking the role of sherpa, butler, crabby concierge, talent agent, a crack team of defense attorneys, an ATM or the secret police. Your child is hard-wired for competence.
1. Don’t mistake a snapshot taken today with the epic 9. When your child doesn’t get the cool English teacher, make the team, get a big part in the play, or movie of your child’s life. gets ejected from the in-group remind yourself that disappointments are necessary preparation for adult 2. Before you nag, criticize, praise or over-explain life. remember the slogan W.A.I.T.: “Why am I talking?” Listen four times more than you talk. 10. Emphasize ordinary chores and jobs along with schoolwork and extracurriculars while accepting that 3. Be alert but not automatically alarmed. chores will get done on AST (Adolescent Standard Time). 4. Don’t confuse children’s wants with their needs. 5. Recognize that your child’s grades or varsity ranking is not the measure of your worth as a parent. Your child is not your masterpiece. 6. Learn to love the words “trial” and “error.” Let your child make mistakes before going off to college. Grant freedom based on demonstrated responsibility and accountability, not what all the other kids are doing. 7. Don’t fret over or fix what’s not broken. Accept
11. Give your kids time to play … lest they sue you for stealing their childhoods. 12. Don’t take it personally if your teenager treats you like crap. They have pre-trip jitters. They’re getting ready for the journey of life. 13. Put the oxygen mask on yourself before you put it on your child. Start by looking at the website: www. whenparentstext.com for a tender, witty perspective on generational differences.
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