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This week was from July 2, 2012 to July 6, 2012. On the 4th of July, we had no school, as in, nobody came to school because it was not required. The day prior to our “little break”, kumu gave us a crap load of home work. He gave us four worksheets to get done and turn in on Thursday all done and correct. This week we had covered pekepe us painu, nono’a he, and we learned more about na mea ohana, pepeke e painu, ko and ka markers, and the other word instead of ‘a’ole which is mai. Mai means don’t. On Tuesday, we took a quiz on ohana (family) terms. This week was a short week so we only learned the basics on all of the major topics. On this weeks vocabulary quiz, I think I did pretty good. I think I did good because I studied as much as I could the night before and the morning of the test. We also threw the balls at people to learn. On Wednesday, we had no school, and did whatever it is that we like to do on the fourth of July. For me, that meant a paddling race, the day in Waikiki, sunburn, and I scorched my bangs and had to cut them myself. Our girls 13 (my division) did really good in the race by placing FIRST!!!!! It was good that this race did not count for points, because the only reason the came first was because they had a good steersman and was able to catch waves. Our coach did not let me race in this race because she wants the girls who do not regularly race to be in this one because it does not count for points. On Thursday, we went over plenty stuff. We learned a lot, and we also reviewed plenty before the test. We went over the painu and everything we learned this week so that we could do good on the test. We also went over the mo’olelo as well as the two chants. Today, in the morning, we chanted into the classroom, said prayer, then began our ho’ike. Todays exam consisted of reading a story and answering questions on the story. We had to answer multiple choice questions, as well as true or false questions. After that, we got a paper, got to choose what we were going to write on out of where we are from, ourselves, the kalo, and the la’i. I choose to write about myself because that is what I know most about. I wrote about a page and a halfin the color pink with a pink ballpoint pen. Then we came here, to midkiff, and edited our blogs. Then we wrote this blog entry on this week, the week of July 2 through July 6. This had to be really long so I am going to repeat this line. Then we came here, to midkiff, and edited our blogs. Then we wrote this blog entry on this week, the week of July 2 through July 6. This had to be really long so I am going to repeat this line. Okay, thank you, mahalo nui loa, a hui hou.

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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.