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This week was the first week of summer school. On tuesday, we went outside of the class room, and watched the Kumus pound kalo. They asked us questions such as He aha Keia (what is this), and we answered with he kalo kena (that is kalo). Tuesday, I left school early, so I did not know what they did for the rest of the day. On Wednesday we learned the ‘elima questions. Number 1) ‘O wai kou inoa? This means; what is your name. Number 2) No hea mai ‘oe? This means; where are you from, as in, what island or state or country. Number 3) Noho ‘oe I hea? This means; where do you live. Number 4) ‘aia ‘oe I ka papa hea? This means; what grade are you in. Number 5) O wai ka inoa ko’u makua? This means; what is your parents names?. We also learned how to respond to those questions. After that, we learned a song, and went over numbers. The song went over the different nubers, body parts, and some other stuff. We learned the numbers up to number twenty nine.. After that, we went up, learning the nubers thirty through ninety nine with a patern. You take the “e” off a number and put it after “kana”. For example, kana + ha= kanaha= 40. After that, you add “kuma” or “kumama” and put the number after that. For example, kanaha”kumakolu” is forty three. Another example is kanaiwakumamaiwa which equals ninety nine. On Thursday, we learned about the keia (this), kena (that, near by the perspective of the speaker), and kena (that, far from the perspectice of the speaker. We also went ofer au (i), ‘oe (you), and ‘o ia (he/she- not specific to any gender). With au, it means I, you talking about your self. ‘oe means you, you are talking to someone else. ‘o ia means he/ she, this is not specific to any gender. ‘ia actually means it, but the by adding the o to ‘o ia makes it proper. An example of these words used in a sentence would be; he kaikamahina au (I am a girl), He kane ‘oe (you are a boy), and he kaikamahina ‘o ia (she is a girl). We learned to make some sentances negative, or ho’ole. An example of ho’ole would be ‘a’ole he kaikamahina, he keikikane oe. That means he is not a girl, he is a boy. We also did more counting, doing some math. Some examples of problems we did were ‘elima times iwakaluakumamaha= kanawalukumamawalu. Another examplee is iwakaluakumaono – iwakalua= ‘eono. Thursday, we also went down to the midkiff learning center. There, we used the school laptops, and we created blogs. On these blogs, we are typing out our reflections and posting them so that kumu can read them and then put the grades into the grade book. On Friday, we took an exam in the morning. This exam covered all of the things we learned during the week. Spelling, as well proper grammer, such as use of ‘okina and kahakous counted for points in the test. After the exam, we added ‘elima new questions to the ones we learned earlier in the week. After that, the other Hawaiian classes came into our class room and we played jeapordy and our class won!!! Then we got to plant our own keiki kalo and if they are alive at the end of the summer, then we take them home!!!!

June 13, 2012

Today in class, we went over numbers. We learned to count in Hawaiian, up to 100 (ho'okahi haneli), starting from 0 (ole). I understood counting in Hawaiian because it is something we learned in elementary school. We also went over the questions such as what is your name ('o wai kou inoa?) and Aia 'oe i ka papa hea (what grade are you in?). We also went over answering those questions. Another thing we did was read the book on Haloa. We went around in a circle, each person first read the olelo Hawai'i, then the olelo haole. Then we listened to kumu re-read the olelo hawai'i. The story talked about Haloa's geneology. His mother (Papahanaumoku) and his father (Wakea), and all the children they had with their various others. The book also talked about how he is the first Hawaiian, a kupuna to all the future generations of Hawaiians.