As the seasons come and go, so do the quarters of the school year.  1^st quarter (summer) is over and we are well into the 2^nd quarter (fall).

Time goes by so quickly and I believe that celebrating small successes along the way of a long journey is very important.

The teachers and staff have sacrificed much time to "planting the seeds" and continue to nurture and tend to our very important students, your children.   In addition, parents, grandparents, guardians and the community continue to partner with the school to educate our children and we are very fortunate.  I consider this a success!

It is a privilege for me to be working at this school and also a joy to be part of the Ma`ema`e Family.  I celebrate this!

Let us all continue with our 2010-2011 journey with positive energy.  I look forward to celebrating more successes along the way!

A big thank you for all of yoursupport and help given to the school, Happy Thanksgiving!

L. Kobayashi, Vice Principal

Ohana Value: Laulima

TEAMWORK

Coming together is a beginning

Keeping together is progress

Working together is success.

Henry Ford

Parking Reminders

Please park in stalls marked "Visitor Parking" only.   Do not double park, park in "No Parking" areas, handicap stalls or leave your car unattended. Parking in unauthorized stalls causes an inconvenience to teachers and other school employees. Our JPOs will place a reminder on your windshield. Please pay attention to it. We ask for your cooperation. Thank you!

Please refer to the Map of Ma`ema`e:

http://web.me.com/maemae3/Maemae_Elementary/Ma%60ema%60e_Parking_Map.html

Breakfast with Your Child

Parents/adults are welcome to eat breakfast with their child (ren).  However, due to Federal Rules and Regulations, parents/adults are not allowed to eat from the child's plate.   Adults may purchase their own breakfast at $1.90. For parents or other adults accompanying their child(ren) for breakfast, please bring exact change with you to pay for your meal as we have a very limited change fund.  Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.

Mealtime Reminders

The cost of eating both a breakfast and lunch daily in an average month (20 school days) is approximately $63.00. We would like to extend our gratitude to parents/guardians who have been diligently keeping track of their child's Mealtime account.    We appreciate your support and cooperation!

Negative Balance Notices

Just a reminder that our staff will continue to send home negative balance notices through your child.   If your child's balance reaches an $11.00 negative balance or  $2.00 negative balance for a child under the free/reduced lunch program, he/she will not be able to purchase a lunch (in accordance with Hawaii State Department of Education School Food Service Policy).   We strongly encourage parents to make regular deposits into their child's Mealtime account(s).   

Cash Deposits

The cost of eating both a breakfast and a lunch daily in an average month (20 school days) is approximately $63.00.   We strongly encourage parents to make regular cash deposits into their child's Mealtime account.   

Adult Breakfast

For parents or other adults accompanying their child for breakfast, please bring exact change with you to pay for your meal ($1.90 for adults) as we have a very limited change fund.

Recess Juice/Milk Purchases

Also of note, if your child is under the Federal Lunch program (free or reduced meals) and he/she purchases juice or milk during morning recess, please make sure you have sufficient funds in your child's account to cover these ala carte items. 

Price of Meals

Breakfast

Student - $.95

Free/Reduced - $.30

Adult / 2^nd breakfast - $1.90

Lunch

Student - $2.20

Free/Reduced - $.40

Adult/2^nd lunch - $4.40

AM Recess

Juice - $.30

Milk - $.50

Breakfast & Lunch

Paid - $3.15

Free/Reduced - $.70

Menu Change!!!

November 24, 2010 (Wed)

Roast Turkey w/gravy

Whipped potatoes

Green Beans & corn

Orange wedges

Raisin roll

Thank you to all who helped with the Flu Clinic. (It went very well despite having the media on campus the first day back to school after the Fall Intersession)  If this was your child's first flu Shot and they are under the age of nine, please make an appointment with their pediatrician to receive a booster shot no sooner than 4 weeks after Oct. 12, 2010.

If your child did not receive the flu vaccine at the school's free clinic, please be sure to immunize them before the flu starts to move through our state's population.

The Flu Clinic has helped reduce the amount of ill children coming to the health room with high fevers, stops the spread of illness to families at home and helps to keep the students throughout the school healthy.  Thank you to everyone who received the vaccine this year.

The holiday season is right around the corner and parents bring treats to their child's classes.  PLEASE check with the classroom teacher about possible restrictions due to food allergies, especially peanuts.  Please call the health room at 595-5406 during the school day from 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM with questions that you may have.

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and safe Thanksgiving and Winter Break. Aloha!!!

-Heather Bedford, School Health Aide

The fifth grade G.T. students have been working with diligence as they prepare for their upcoming First Lego League "Qualifying Tournament" which will be held at the Kalakaua Middle School on November 6, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.  They have been constructing several versions of a Lego NXT robot and have named their team "MA`EMA`E BRAINSTORMS #5003."  The public is welcome to view the tournament, which is free and open to everyone interested in following and supporting our team and robotics, in general.

In preparation for the "Body Forward" missions, all 19 students have been learning to construct and program their robots; however, 10 students will be representing our school in the local, and hopefully, the State Championship to be held at the Neil Blaisdell Center on December 11, 2010.  The team is also sending five of the FLL students to a special event at the Sheraton Waikiki on Thursday, October 28, 2010.  At the request of the Governor's Office, students from Ma`ema`e will showcase their skills with robots at the 25^th Annual AFCEA Conference and Exposition, called "C2 of Cyberspace - Key to Asia-Pacific Multinational Operations."  During the day, they will exhibit their construction and programming skills to engineers and technology specialists at the conference.  This will be a great opportunity to share their knowledge before our Qualifying Tournament.

G.T. students from grade 4 are shadowing the Body Forward missions using the NXT robot and similar strategies as the 5^th grade FLL team members.  This will prepare them for their participation next year, as our 2011-2012 team!  G.T. students from grades 1-3 are also learning to accurately align and program the more basic RCX version of the Lego robot in order to understand the movement of the system.  Over the years in G.T., they will apply information they are learning and contrast/compare the two different versions of our robots for functional design and mission completion.  We are so proud of all of their efforts.

The Ma'ema'e web pages can be found at

http://web.me.com/maemae3/Maemae_Elementary/Welcome.html

Parents signing up for digital versions of the Parent Bulletin need to sign up for our mailing list at

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs046/1102482324905/archive/1103610283020.html

You will receive an e-mail where you can confirm your e-mail address. Your first digital bulletin will be the October issue.  If you signed up to receive digital copies in the e-mail survey, you will not receive a hard copy as of October.  So don't forget to join the mailing list at the above URL.  If you did not have time to sign up, you can go to the Parent Section of the school home page to see the Parent Bulleting Archive.

During the Christmas break, students in grades 2-5 are encouraged to work on Kid Biz and Type to Learn 4 Keyboarding.  If you were not able to install the typing, the students may use the Grade 2 keyboarding, which is located under the grade two interactive games - called Dance Mat Typing (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing.

Kalua Pig Fundraiser Top Seller!!!

Congratulations to the following students:

1^st Place - CY (4-28) 133 tickets

2^nd Place - JL (1-8) 113 tickets

3^rd Place - KK (K-22) 80 tickets

Thank you everyone for supporting Ma`ema`e School

Family Night 2011

Get ready ... Get set ... Go! Please reserve Friday, May 6, 2011 from 2:30 - 8:00 PM for our annual Ma`ema`e Elementary School Family Night. This family-friendly neighborhood event would not be possible without our dedicated, hardworking Committee volunteers who have already started planning and strategizing for another successful year. Our first committee meeting will be on Wednesday, November 3 at 5:30 - 6:30 PM in the School Library. If you would like to help on the committee in some capacity, please contact Family Night Chair Michelle Hashimoto at 741-5854 or shellhashi@gmail.com.  Our committee job descriptions in pdf form can be downloaded from: http://web.me.com/maemae3/Maemae_Elementary/Welcome.html. 

Other needs for the event include:

• New items for the Raffle, Silent Auction, and Country Store (i.e., toys, gift cards, crafts, music, movies, perishable and non-perishable items)
•  New or gently used items for the Bargain Bin (i.e., toys, games, puzzles, books, kitchen utensils, household items, costume jewelry)
•  Baked goods
•  Hundreds of volunteers from Wednesday, May 4 through Saturday, May 7. Several volunteers are also needed prior to May 4 for donation collection days, solicitation follow-up, and prep work.

Specific requests will be made in early 2010 and collections days are scheduled for March and April; however, please let us know if you have any company contacts that can be solicited earlier.

Thanks in advance for all your kokua and wonderful contributions. If you have any questions about Family Night, please contact Michelle at 741-5854 or shellhashi@gmail.com.

Food Drive from November 3-30

We'll be having a food drive for the Hawaii Food Bank in November.  Please bring any kinds of canned foods and other dry food products (rice, cereal, grains, and other packaged food items).   Items can be brought to your child's classroom or to the office.  The last day to bring food items is Nov. 30.  Thank you!

'Ohana Chip Donations

Thank you to everyone who has made a donation of items for our 'weekly Ohana Chip redemption "store".   Your generosity and aloha is greatly appreciated!  Send your donations to the office labeled with your child's name and room #.  Mahalo!

Recent  donors:

Preschool: CN

K:  RP (24) LF (22), CN (25), MM (25)

Gr. 1:  ZI (6) , KT (6), BY-M (7),  TFS (9), KY (10), IN (10), AC (7), KH (9)

Gr. 2: BP (13), OT (13), KN (13),

Gr. 3:  CS (20), MN (17)

 Gr. 4:  KP (30), CO (26), TH (30), CJ (30), KT (27)

Gr. 5:  AP (38), KK ((40)

Halloween Parade

Mahalo to everyone who participated in our annual Halloween Parade on Oct. 29!

There were some very creative costumes on display !  

Hi5 Recycling Schedule

Mahalo for holding your Hi5 beverage containers at home and bringing them to school on our monthly Hi5 collection day.  Here once again are the monthly collection days for the rest of the school year.   Thank you for your support of the school and the planet!

Ma'ema'e School "Hi5" Recycling Collection Days (7:15 to 8:00 am)

Nov. 4, Dec. 2, Jan. 6, Feb. 3,

March 3, April 7 & May 12     

Please  make sure containers are "Hi5", empty (with caps removed) and separated by plastic, aluminum and glass.

11/01-5/10

• Parent-Teacher Conferences - 1:10 p.m.  release on Mon., Tues., Thurs., 12:20 release on Wed.

11/02/10

• Election Day, no school

11/05/10

• JPO Movie Day - 8:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. @ Ward 16

11/06/10

• FLL Gr. 5 GT - Qualifying Tournament - 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. @ Kalakaua Middle School

11/09/10

• Kawananakoa Middle School Orchestra - 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
• SCC Mtg. - 2:30 p.m. in the library

11/10/10

• 5^th Grade Activities on Ma'ema'e "Big Field"
•  5^th Grade Day Camp @ Timberline and sleep over at Ma`ema`e

11/11/10

• Veteran's Day - Holiday, no school

11/12/09

• Gr.  5:  Day Camp @ Ma`ema`e, 8:00 a.m.  - 2:00 p.m.

11/13/09

• Gr.  5:  Day Camp @ Camp Timberline and Sleepover at Ma`ema`e

11/14/09

• Gr.  5:  Sleepover pick-up, 8:00 a.m.

11/17/09

• PTSA Mtg. - 5:30 p.m. in the library

11/18/10

• Gr. 5 Walking Field Trip to KMS Orientation - 8:00a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

11/19/09

• Gr.  1 (Rms. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10):  Creatures of Hawaii Reptile & Amphibian Mobile Ed. Program - 9:00 a.m.-2:05 p.m.
• Gr. 3 (Rms. 17 & 18) Haiku Stream - 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
• PTSA Movie Night - 5:30 p.m., - 8:00 p.m.

11/25/10

• Holiday - Happy Thanksgiving, no school

11/26/10

• No school
  

12/06/10

• Gr. 4 (Rms. 26, 29, 1/2 of 27) Gene-ius Day @ UH - 8:10 am. 12:30 p.m.

12/07/10

• Gr. 4 (Rms. 28, 30, ½ of 27) Gene-ius Day @ UH - 8:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Gr. 1 Festival of Trees & Youth Symphony - 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  

12/16/10

• Gr. 1&2 Christmas Magic in Cafeteria - 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.