Caught the fever

Bieber Fever that is....I didn't realize he was such a fan til I heard him playing with a microphone this afternoon.

JPO Competition

Julia's Junior Patrol Officer group competed with lots of other JPO's from other schools around the island this past week. They had lots of drills and were judged by the Police Dept. While her school didn't win the competition, a small handful of other awards were given out. Julia was one of the few to receive one--Junior Patrol Officer OF THE YEAR!!!!!!
She was shocked (didn't know there was a such award) and ever so honored to receive it. She absolutely treasures her new medallion. So proud of her!

Turn Up Your Volume

Here's some video of the lady teachers and even the principal doing their May Day dance.





One of the teachers dancing (with all the other lady teachers) specifically for the Queen and King.

Oh, everyone (especially the students) got a huge kick out of seeing a bunch of the male staff doing some hula in their board shorts. These guys were such great sports.

May Day Procession

The May Day Queen and King with their procession of Princes and Princesses from neighboring islands.

1st graders

Evelyn's grade did the song "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride", from Lilo and Stitch, which can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4X1_3VipWs

We played this song numerous times over the past few weeks. Her teacher even sent home the lyrics with all the dance moves, too so that parents and siblings could help these kiddos get their song/dance down. Evie Andie worked so hard and it showed! Here she's riding her surf board ("we'll surf til the sunsets beyond the horizon").

A wiki wiki mai lohi lohi
Lawe mai i ko papa he'e nalu
(Roll right up, down. Roll left up, down....)

There’s no place I’d rather be
Than on the seashore dry, wet free

Hand jive!!!

3rd graders

Next up is Jacob with his fellow 3rd graders...

His dance cracked me up. I'll have to ask him the name of his song (he kept it a secret this whole time and refused to practice at home--but he knew all the parts! His teacher told him that he was the best boy dancer of his class!)

He said something about the gorilla walk here?

Look closely and you can see that there's a separate boys and girls part here.

Girls have their hands behind their ears while the boys have a hand across their chest. He did such a good job!!!

4th graders

I love their outfits. You can't really see them, but the boys are on their knees doing their own little dance in front of the girls. It was a really beautiful hula that they all performed.

Firework

The 5th graders were dancing to "Firework" by Katy Perry (so not Alohaish, but the graduating class always gets to do a more modern song and have fun with it). It turned out that Julia's best friend, Hailey, was right next to her during the performance (Julia's in the blue, Hailey is to her right in the white). They did an AWESOME job on the routine!

"Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon....."

I'm so proud of these guys--they've been practicing in my living room for WEEKS! Lots of hard work, plenty of giggles and squeals. :D We'll never be able to hear that song and be the same again!

May Day Pics

Julia and her teacher right before the program started.

I sat with a group of friends who had a couple little ones. This little guy, Grant, was my lap buddy the entire time. He's such a snuggler. :)


Hooray--it's finally done!!!!

High Surf

Julia and Marcus stayed home from school so we thought we'd hit up the beach (surely it wouldn't be raining SOMEWHERE on the island!). We ended up on the North Shore. The sun decided to peek through the clouds a bit, but it was still pretty gusty. And the waves were quite large! Plenty taller than us!