We are fourth graders from Ma'ema'e School in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ma'ema'e means clean and pure in the Hawaiian language. There are about 750 students in our school. Our mascot is the dolphin. There are 27 in our class of 13 boys and 14 girls. We have four classes of fourth graders. We are a multi-cultural class of Hawaiian, Portuguese, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Caucasian, Native American, Spanish, Samoan, and many other mixed nationalities.
Our school was founded in the late 1800's and we celebrated our centennial year in 1996! We held many special activities for our Centennial Celebration including a Read Aloud, golf tournament, Time Capsule, Health Fair, Centennial Dinner, and special Centennial cookbooks, t-shirts, and song. It was quite a year for us!
Honolulu is located at 21? 20' North latitude, and 157?50' West longitude. We are currently having thunderstorms and the weather is dark and humid. Hard to imagine Hawaii without its sunshine, but it's true :( We have two seasons in Hawaii- Ho'oilo is our rainy, colder season which lasts from October to May. Kauwela is our warm, dry season and lasts from May to October. In Science, we're currently studying the different vegetation zones of our Hawaiian islands. We live in the dryland forest zone of our island, but because we're located in a valley, we get a lot of rain in the mornings.
Hope to hear from all of you soon!
Aloha Ahui Hou! (Till next time)
Aloha! (hello)
We are a fifth grade class from Ma'ema'e Elementary School on the island of Oahu, in Honolulu, Hawaii. We are located at approximately 20 degrees North latitude and 160 degrees West longitude. We just celebrated our 100th birthday. We have won the National Multiple Sclerosis Read-a-Thon for the fifth year in a row. We go camping in the sixth grade at Camp Erdman on the north shore of Oahu and go to the Big Island in the fourth grade to study hawaiian culture and geology. The events that we like best during the year are the Christmas Door Decoration Contest, May Day, Family Night and Talent Show. At Ma'ema'e School, we have grades from Kindergarten to the sixth grade, and we have about 700 students in our school.
In hawaiian, "Ma'ema'e" (pronounced "mah-eh-mah-eh") means "clean and pure". We also have on e of the est cafeteria staffs in the state.
In Hawaii, there are many historical sites that tourists visit. Some of them are the Bishop Museum, Pali Lookout, the Honolulu Zoo, Aloha Tower, Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor, Koko Head and Punch Bowl. Some of the favorite things that the fifth graders like to do are going to the movies, basketball, surfing, soccer, volleyball, football, shambattle, boogie boarding and baseball.
Most of the time, the weather here is sunny, but right now it is quite cold. The highest temperature so far is in the 90s. The lowest temperature here was in the 50s. The water we get here is filtered naturally by the mountains in dike rock. Our water is the most wonderful water in the world! In fact, the hawaiian word for "wealthy" is "wai wai". "Wai" means water.
We would like to share with you some of the common hawaiian words we use like "kokua" (cooperation), "ohana" (family), "e komo mai" (welcome or come in), "mahalo" (thank you). The hawaiian foods that we enjoy are poi (mashed taro), lomi lomi salmon (salted salmon dish), haupia (coconut gelatin), mahi mahi (fish), kaki mochi (rice crackers), butterfish, shave ice, kim chee, pipipi (small sea snail), manapua, tako (octopus), sushi and musubi. Our foods are influenced by the many different cultures in he islands.
Aloha! (also means good-bye)
We are looking forward to working with all of you!
Ma'ema'e Elementary School
Grade 5
Room 36