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Ma'ema'e Elementary
March Parent Bulletin
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Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s),
"March Madness" is the perfect way to describe the craziness of March. Please take note of changes in bell schedules, holidays, and our first ever "Spring Fest" this month. Third quarter ends on March 9 so there will be no school for students and for teachers, who will be on Directed Leave. But the office will be open on March 9 and during the Spring Vacation that runs from March 12-16. Students and teachers return to school on March 19. This is also the week of our "Spring Fest". Remember that Wednesday, March 21, will be on a regular bell schedule with school ending at 2:15 pm. and A+ and other after school programs will operate on a Friday schedule. Friday, March 23, will be on the Wednesday bell schedule and school will end at 12:25 pm with the after school programs to follow. The "Spring Fest" will be held on March 23 and will begin at 8:30 am in the lower courtyard between the cafeteria and the office. Parents and guests are welcome to watch the program from the upper portion of the courtyard between the Administration building and the sidewalk. The program will run about an hour with every grade level represented. The big field will have limited parking available and if additional parking is needed, you may park at Community Church of Honolulu, Honolulu Central 7th Day Adventist Church, and the Church of Perfect Liberty (all located on Nuuanu Ave.). March 26 is Prince Kuhio Day holiday and there will be no school on that day. If there are any questions regarding our "Spring Fest" please call 595-5400 ext 224 (VP - Mrs. Kobayashi). Mahalo, Pearlene Blaisdell, Principal |
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Vice Principal's Message The month of March brings on a "spring fever" feeling of excitement, whichpermeates the campus! * Students continue to " Dream Big . . . and really work hard!" Our grade 3-5 students completed round #2 of State testing and the results show that hard work does pay off. The final testing window begins in April and we are confident that students will continue to show growth and improvement. * Grade 5 Science Project Exhibit: March 6 to March 8, 2012 in the cafeteria and library * First Spring Fest: Friday, March 23, 2012 * Grade K Mini Museum Art Exhibit: March 18 - March 30, 2012 in the library Spring Break comes a bit earlier this year March 12-16, 2012, but at a very opportune time for students to rejuvenate and re-energize! Rest your mind and body during the break! Have a marvelous month of March and super sensational spring break! Sincerely, VP Kobayashi |
Bell Schedule Changes
- Wednesday, March 21, 2012 School Hours: 8:00 AM to 2:15 PM
- Friday, March 23, 2012 School Hours: 8:00 AM to 12:25 PM
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Gr. K Mini Museum Art Exhibit
The Kindergarten Class of 2024 Presents Mini Museum
All of the kindergarteners have been "Dreaming Big ... and Working Hard!" these days as they prepare artwork for their Mini Museum.
The Mini Museum is a display of multi cultural art and interactive activities from around the world. The exhibit will feature vessels, sculptures, prints, and weaving all created by our very own budding young artists under the tutelage of Ms. Alyce Dodge from the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
The kindergarten class sends out a Big Mahalo to the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Artists in the Schools Program for supporting education and art appreciation in the public schools.
The Mini Museum will be open for viewing in the school library starting Monday, March 19 through the end of the month.
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After School Pick Up Reminders
Parents, please make sure your child(ren) know their afterschool pick-up routine. If your child is enrolled in the A+ program, tutoring or other on-campus afterschool program, he/she should report there immediately after school ends. If your child walks home or is being picked up, please remember that school ends at 2:15 PM on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and 12:25 PM on Wednesdays. For safety reasons, students should not loiter or be left unattended on campus after the school day ends. |
Traffic Safety
Adults, parents and guardians please be mindful of traffic signs and drive with caution in the school driveways and parking and drop-off areas. It has been brought to our attention that adults are not adhering to traffic rules. This is not safe for our students, faculty and parents!
This issue was brought to the attention of our JPO police advisor and we were instructed to do the following:
* Take down the license plate number and description of the car
* Friendly reminder about driving safely in the school environment
* Repeat offenders will have their license plate # submitted to the police
Please keep our school campus safe! Think about the safety of our children!
Thank you for your understanding and attention to this matter!
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School Community Council - Important Notice
School Community Council (SCC) Nomination
Nominations for candidates to fill a vacancy, for a Parent Alternate (1 year) for the 2012-2013 school year is now being solicited.
A Parent Alternate must be a primary caregiver with whom a child currently attending Ma`ema`e resides. It cannot be an employee of the school.
Please return your nomination form to the school office by March 2, 2012, 4:00 PM.
(A nomination form was sent home earlier on February 22, 2012 through your child's homeroom)
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2012-2013 School-Year Registration
Ma`ema`e will be sending home two important flyers in the month of March: * Returning Ma`ema`e students for SY 2012-2013 (Due back to the teacher by Thursday, March 8) * 5th Grade students projected to elementary or middle schools (public or private) for 2012-2013 (Due back to the teacher by Thursday, March 8) The flyers are designed to help Ma`ema`e fulfill its class lists for the upcoming school year, as well as assist our middle schools with registration. |
Health Room
Health Room View: Lots of sore throats going around. Some are caused by our vog, some have turned out to be strep throat. If your child does come down with strep throat, remember, it is contagious until they take antibiotics. Please inform your child's teacher or the Health Room if your child has a diagnosis of strep. If there are three or more cases in a classroom I will notify the parents of that room to be on the lookout for those strep signs/symptoms. This applies to other contagious illness also, i.e.: ukus, conjunctivitis, staph infection etc. Please phone the HR, 595-5406, school days 7:30 AM - 2:15 PM. Remember to wear shoes and school t-shirt for those upcoming Spring Field Trips. Thank you, have a lovely vacation.
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Library
Yearbook OrdersThe last day to order a yearbook is February 24. The cost is $20. A limited number of yearbooks will be available for sale in May when the yearbooks are distributed. If you missed the deadline and would like to order please come see me in the library. Overdue or Lost BooksIf your child has overdue books, please return them as soon as possible so they may be able to continue borrowing books. If you believe that the book is lost, you may pay for the book and get refunded if it is found this school year.
New Window DisplayWe have updated our READ sign with pink hearts containing poems students from 2nd - 4th grade wrote. Please come up and read them.
PicturesClass photos have been distributed to the classrooms in January. If you ordered a fall package and did not receive a class photo, please let your child's homeroom teacher know or myself know. A request for the photo can be made. Currently there are some missing class photos that are on order through Lifetouch. It does seem to take a while to receive them.
We Give Books CampaignThank you Mae'ma'e Ohana for reading. We read and earned 500 books. Due to the overwhelming response, the campaign ended early. 150,000 books were read in less than a week. Please continue to read with and to your child. Each book read gives a book to a child in need. Sandy Domion 595-5400 ext. 233 |
Technology News
Technology Fundraisers
- General Mills Labels (sent in November - next shipment will be the end of February) Next year the General Mills Labels will be under Student Council.
- Recycling Ink Cartridges and Toners - Intrade (847-5300) will pick them up at your office if you tell them, they'll credit to Ma'ema'e, or send to the office or lab.
- Office Depot - 5% back to the school (designate Ma'ema'e ) on qualifying purchases (ask Office Depot for a list of qualifying purchases) School ID Number - 70027176
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Gifted and Talented
Gifted and Talented Plus EEEThroughout the month of February, the Gifted and Talented students have been engaged in continuing projects related to their webpage building. Some of the projects are cooperative in nature and encourage collaboration, such as their buddy/teamwork photos and reflections. Other projects have been more independent in nature and require the student to research, as well as think about their own opinions. In honor of Presidents' Day, students discovered interesting facts about our 44 U.S. Presidents and also discovered that there are only really 43 "different" names listed as President. Can you answer why that is true? During the month of February and into March, all Ma`ema`e students are trying their hand at writing poetry. Many of the students have found the opportunity enriching, as well as inspiring. Several examples of the "Renshi" or tag poetry that has been written with our guest poet, Ms. Ann Inoshita, will be posted soon on the Ma`ema`e website. There are many opportunities for our budding poets to become "published" both on our site and the Bamboo Ridge Press webpage. More poetry experiences are also being considered as an extension of these lessons that have been sponsored by our PTSA. Please thank them when you see the PTSA board members. |
PTSA
Family Night 2012
Ma`ema`e School's annual Family Night, Friday May 4, 2012 is fast approaching! Only 10 weeks to go!!
We still need a lot of help! Please come to our next Family Night Planning meeting on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 5:30 PM in the school library if you are interested in volunteering your time to help out.
A donation drive will be held on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM. Volunteers will be in the front of the school (bus shelter) and at the cafeteria catwalk to assist with unloading your donations from your car. We need the following for this donation drive:
- Lightly used toys, books, activities, household items and other sale-able items for our Bargain Bin
- Cases of bottled water
- Cases of canned soda or juice
- 2 liter bottles of soda (soda floats)
- Spam
- White rice
- White sugar
- Zip Loc plastic bags ( all sizes)
- Donations for our Prize Redemption booth, small or large toys, electronic games, riding toys, bikes, activities, puzzles, novelty toys, dolls, etc. (Brand new preferred)
We are also asking for monetary donations or gift cards from Costco, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, CVS/Longs, Target, Kmart and all grocery stores. These will be used to purchase supplies.
Sign ups for shifts will be circulated soon so be on the lookout!
Everyone get involved for the funds go to educating our children! Thank you for your continued support, your generosity of time, money and effort!
Family Night will be another fabulous event because of you!
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Melanie Kawai, Family Night Chairperson
Treasurer's Cornerby Wendy Yoshioka-Moore Wow, $1,000 dollars from Chuck-E-Cheese's! Thank you so much for supporting your PTSA at our first Chuck-E-Cheese's family fun night. Actual sales for the event totaled $5,840.09 and we get 15% or $876.01. The folk over at Chuck-E-Cheese said our school had the biggest turnout ever. With that, they rounded up to $1,000 dollars! Awesome job everyone! Noteworthy expenses for February 2012: Poetry workshop for students $500.00 Classroom Support $671.70 4th Grade Bishop Museum $450.00 4th Grade Bishop Museum bento $625.39 Membership drive ice cream party $40.00 Hawaii State PTSA Insurance $115.00 |
Student Council News
Honolulu 5K for Kids: April 29
Here is one more chance to support our school and also get some healthy exercise with the family, too. The second annual Honolulu 5K for Kids fun run is coming up on Sunday, April 29 in downtown Honolulu. You can choose between the 5K road race or the shorter I mile run/walk. Like the Hawaii 5210 fun run in Feb., all of the proceeds will come back to our school to support our PE and sports programs. One change this year: the school can pick up your t-shirts and packets for you! Sign up online at www.honolulu5k.org and save $5. (Link at the top of the bulletin will take you to the registration form). Make sure you designate "Ma'ema'e School" and fill out the t-shirt information on your entry form. We will pick up your t-shirt and packet for you and send it home with your child on the Friday before the race (April 27). Any questions? Please call Mr. Nakamura @ 5955400x228Brown Bags to Stardom Talent Show: March 29Our annual talent show, "Kidz Got Talent!", will take place on Thursday, March 29 at 12:30 pm. Auditions will take place the week of Feb. 27 on the café stage at recess. The winning act will represent the school at the statewide BBTS talent show in April. Singing, dancing, playing an instrument, comedy, etc. ---- all talented students are welcome to audition! Field of Dreams Softball Game: March 8Our annual fun softball game between the fifth grade students and the teachers/staff will take place on Thursday, March 8 on our big field. The Student Council will also be selling healthy snacks at the game, with all net proceeds going to the local affiliate of the American Cancer Society. Here is a tentative list of items that will be sold at the game: Kettle Corn, Little Cuties mandarin oranges, small bottled water, Capri Sun juice pouches and any other items we receive as donations from parents. All items will cost fifty cents each. MAHALO! Spirit Week: March 19-23!Spirit Week will be held during the week of March 19 (right after Spring Break). Monday is "School Spirit Day"--- wear a school t-shirt or the school colors, green and yellow. Tuesday is "Pajama/Stuffed Animal Day"---wear your PJ's and/or bring a stuffed animal to school. But no falling asleep in class!. "Wacky Wednesday" means you can dress as weird as you dare (and don't forget the hair!). Thursday is "Sports Day". Wear your own team jersey or your favorite sport/team's shirt. Friday is our "Music Day". Please come and listen to the beautiful music at our Spring Fest on Mach 23 ! `Ohana Chip DonationsThank you to these recent donors: L.M., S.O. (K-21), S.L., E.L-L., R.K. (K-25), A. Ushiroda, J.B., A.S. (1-7), Q.K. (2-11), B.Y-M. (2-13), N.O. (3-19), B.S. (3-20), N.P. (5-39). We are always looking for new or gently used small toys, school supplies and knick-knacks. And of course, healthy snacks (fruit roll-ups, fruit chews, etc.) Please, no nuts ! MAHALO!! |
School Calendar and Community Events
3/5/12
- GR. 2: Reef Walk @ Kewalo Basin, 8:15 AM - 12:30 PM
- "Field of Dreams" softball game (5th graders vs faculty @ Big Field, 12:30 PM
3/5/12 - 3/8/12 (Viewing begins on 3/6/12 to 3/8/12)
- Gr. 5 Science Project in cafeteria and library
3/9/12
- End of 3rd Qtr.
- Directed Leave for Teachers: NO SCHOOL
3/12/12 through 3/16/12
3/18/12 to 3/30/12 (You are all invited...)
- Grade K Mini Museum Art Exhibit: Open to all in school library, 8:00 AM - 2:15 PM Monday through Friday except Wednesdays, 8:00 AM - 12:25 PM
3/21/12
- CHANGE IN BELL SCHEDULE: 8:00 AM to 2:15 PM
3/23/12
- SPRING FEST: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in front of cafeteria
Change in Bell Schedule: 8:00 AM - 12:25 PM)
3/26/12
3/29/12
- Talent Show: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in cafeteria
3/30/12
- Gr. 4 Rooms 28 and 30: Kamananui Valley, 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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