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MOKAPUE L E M E N T A R Y
SCHOOL NEWS
September 2016
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Aloha Mokapu Ohana!
Thank you for a great start to the 2016-2017 school year. The entire Mokapu School Community are thankful for your support. Every teacher I talk to is excited about his or students and the great things we can do together. A big Mahalo to our PTA Board for kicking off the year with a successful PTA Meeting/Bingo Night. It is always good when we can get our parents together to support the school.
Please make sure you share the information in this newsletter with your friends and neighbors. As we are still in the process of going paperless with the majority of our communication some parents may miss an important message.
I encourage you to reach out to your teacher if you ever have a question or concern. You may have many questions now that school has started. It is never too early to send an email or note to ask a quick question or set up a conference.
I also ask your help in keeping our campus safe. All adults on campus during school hours are required to have a badge. This is also for parents coming to school to pick up children at dismissal. Please stay in the corridor between the front office and cafeteria or stay outside of the sidewalk on the east side of campus until the dismissal bell rings.
Finally, I invite any interested parent to attend our first School Community Council(SCC) meeting on Wednesday, September 14 from 3:30-4:30 in the library. The SSC is a required Council that assists the principal in the governance of the school. Topics discussed are curriculum, testing, safety, new school construction, and other items that may come from members. Please consider joining this important council. After this inaugural meeting all other meeting times will be prior to our monthly PTA meetings.
Thank you again for choosing Mokapu. Please contact me at [email protected] if I can ever be of service.
Sincerely,
Chuck FradleyPrincipalMokapu Elementary
Dear Mokapu O'hana,
The start of school seemed to be a whirlwind of new names, faces, and opportunities. There seems to be an atmosphere of caring and support from the students' smiles and "Good Mornings" greetings, to parents welcoming all of the new folks and desiring the best for their children, and the staff of Mokapu investing their heart and soul into the students and the positive energy of the school continuing to make it a great year. I am grateful for the integral service by the adults working at Mokapu. Thank you for all you do to make this school a great place for our students. The difference shows when we go above and beyond our duties, but reach out because it is the right thing to do and impacts the life of a child, our children. I love seeing the clean and neat campus, picked up, cared for. When we take the second to reach down to pick up the rubbish or help up a child, open a milk, smile, and greet another with care, we are making a difference. Even more substantial is when a parent wants to ensure our children are safe. Parents watch to make sure the children are in the right place, adults are wearing badges on campus, and folks are aware of children around the campus and what they are doing. When something is not right, folks say something because they care. As a reminder, for the safety of your children and as a positive example to the children, please use the crosswalks when leaving the campus. Crossing outside of the crosswalks is not safe. Please be a good example to the children and take the time to practice safety. In the end, please love your children. Give them an extra hug when they go to bed and talk to them kindly. Be gentle and be a good example. They will emulate us as they get older; be the person you want them to be.
Aloha oukou,
Tee
Vice Principal
Mokapu Elementary School
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President - Kaili M.
Vice President - Sebastian M.
Secretary - Cameron W.
Treasurer - Ariana G.
6th Grade
C1 - Logan D. & Domonic R.
C2 - Shane W. & Logynn C.
C3 - Gracie O. & Eve B.
5th Grade
F1 - Jamin S. & Aniya T.
F2 - Seth P. & Kaci M.
F3 - Genevieve I. & AJ J.
4th Grade
D1 - Cadence M. & Skylar P.
D2 - Sophie R. & Isabella S.
D3 - Hannah R. & Matthew J.
D4 - Ella M. & Austin L.
Did you review the parent handbook yet?” Make sure you read through your
parent handbook that was given to you along with your first day packets. There is a lot of good information and can answer many questions. You can find a copy on our Mokapu page under parents. http://www.mokapuelem.org/
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Aloha Mokapu Ohana,
I am happy to announce that our Student Council has officially started! It gives me great pride to serve
as this school year's Student Council Advisor.
These are the students who have been voted as your Student Council Officers, Class Representatives and Alternates.
Honorary Representatives: Jodeci B. & Nolan R.
Our upcoming meetings will be held in the Library on Friday's 9/2, 9/9 & 9/30 from 2:05 - 3:05 pm. We are
also looking forward to our Student Council Leadership Camp at YMCA Camp Erdman on September 20
& 21.
If you have any questions regarding Student Council, please see me directly.
Mahalo,Tricia Adams
TA Vice PrincipalMokapu Elementary School
Looking for a job that works with your kids schedule?!”Mokapu is looking for substitute teachers and a new PCNC. Descriptions are posted on
the Mokapu Website. http://www.mokapuelem.org/apps/jobs/Mokapu Elementary
Mokapu Calendar!!!! Want to know when the next picture day is? How about the next there is no school? You can
now be up to date on school events by checking our calendar and upcoming events @ Mokapu’s main web page.
Follow school current events @ www.facebook.com/MokapuPTA
Is your address and info up to date??? Don’t for get to update your
address if you are no longer in TLA or add emergency contacts now that you made friends. Is as easy filling out a demographic form in the front office.
Want to volunteer?!!! Help would be greatly appreciated in assisting with the book fair during September 23-30. We will need volunteers for cashiers, restocking, heavy lifting, student supervisors and more. Please contact PCNC for time and dates.
I would like to acknowledge Miss Sheri Frye and her third grade class
for being the first class to turn in 100% of their "Emergency Cards" to
the Health Room within the first week of school. Way to go E-2!!!
Keep you kiddos on the go with our enrichment classes!!!PTA offers different enrichment classes after school such as, Kidz Art, Clay Creations, Girls on the Run, Archery, and more. For more detail please follow Mokapu Elementary PTA on Facebook or contact PCNC.
Parent Community Networking Center
What a great kick off to the year with our Mokapu Ohana! We would like to thank each and every
parent for being diligent in signing up for Mokapu paperless! We now have a majority of the school
signed up! We are pleased to now be sending out notifications, volunteer opportunities, and newsletters
paper less!
We would like to congratulate the following classes for turning in all their oldest and only forms the quickest out of their grade level they will be having a pizza party September 1st :
Mrs. Moore- I4 Pre- K Mrs. Paul & Mrs. Harvey- Waddell E4 3rd GradeMrs. Maynard A6 1st Grade Mrs. Miyasaki D3 4th Grade Mrs. Redican A2 2nd Grade Mrs. Chu C2 6th Grade
Don't forget make up picture day is Sept 27th! If your child was absent on picture day please have your
child ready to take their picture! Say Cheese!
Our annual water day that takes places in October has been postponed until the end of the year. If you
are interested in helping out with any of the events at Mokapu, please stay tuned for emails asking for
your time and help! We have many volunteer opportunities in the next coming months! Please see below
on the events to come.
We thank you parents for your continued support and being involved in your child's education!
Ally Ljubovic & Mellissa Kennedy
Please feel free to reach out to us at anytime for any questions or concerns you may have. We can be
reached at 808-254-7964 Ext 292 or [email protected]
Sept.23-30 -Book FairSept. 27 –Make up PicturesOct. 6 -Water Day canceled until
further noticeOct. 24-28 – Red Ribbon Wk.Oct. – Flu ClinicNov. 23 -Turkey TrotDec. 16– Winter Program
Feb. 10 –Spring PicturesMar. 2 -Read Across AmericaMar. 10 -6th Grade PicturesApril –Adopt a School
-Make a Difference Day-Month of the Military Child
May 5 – Staff App. Day
More….End of year class partiesHelp around schoolOffice helpStudents classroomField TripsAnd more throughout the year
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We are very excited to slowly start introducing our new school shirts. We will be selling
them as we run out of our 2x$10 inventory. The new shirts will be $10 each. Please check
with PCNC for what sizes we have in stock.
• Small shirts will be available as soon as our shipment arrives.• 2 X $10 are only while supplies last. They will not be available once they are sold out.
NEW
$10 each
Small- 2x$10
Medium- 2$10
Large- 2x$10
XL- $10
3XL- 2x$10
XS- $10 (new)
Small- out of stock (old & new)
Medium- $10
Large- 2x$10 only
XL- $10
OLD STYLE
2 X $10
Aloha all,
Our library catalog is now online again. This means if you or your student is looking for a certain book in our
library - you can go online and see if we have it. It also means you and your students have access to great
research tools like EBSCO and World Book and Easy Bib. The link can be found on our school website. Roll
over Students and click on Mokapu Elementary School Library. The username and password for Ebsco etc.
is mokapues (both username and password).
Have a happy Friday!
Caitlin
Well, September is here, which means Those constant trade winds are right around the corner!
Things have been pretty busy for the PTA since last month. We had a great night on August 18th for Pizza
& Bingo night and enjoyed a great turnout at the All Pro Dad Breakfast! We also are proud to help sponsor
our student council going to an overnight Workshop this September. They will share and implement their
new training throughout our entire school, great work SC !!
The September events that I want to highlight are the PTA meeting on Thursday, September 15th at 6pm in
the Cafeteria. We will be hosting a Pizza Night along with a Speaker from our Hunt Community as well as
some fun fall activities for the keiki.
After School Programs also start this month, for more information please visit our Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/MokapuPTA
You can also stay up to date by joining our text reminder service! Simply text: 81010 and in the message
field enter @mokapu
We look forward to joining our Mokapu families at our September events, see you soon!
Mahalo,
Your Mokapu PTA
Thank you to all our Dad’s that joined us at
All Pro-Dads!!! It was a success. Join us on
next months. Sept 7th
Bingo night was a success!!!
Thank you for coming to join
us. Next PTA meeting is Sept.
15 at 6pm.
Book Fair September 26-30!!!We will need volunteers help set up and assisting in running the fair. Please contact PCNC for the time and dates. [email protected] or call 254-7964 ext. 292
Aloha Mokapu Ohana,
We are off to a wonderful start in our music classes and I am excited that I get to see your keiki more often this year
with our new schedule.
5th and 6th grade parents are welcome to sign up for private text messaging with me via Remind.com in order to be
updated on when your child's music class is and when playing tests and quizzes are coming up.
Send a text to the number: 81010
In the message box enter the following code for your child's class
C-1 Boyle: @c1bo F-1 Morimoto: @f1mo
C-2 Chu: @c2chu F-2 Richards: @f2ri
C-3 Lopes: @c3lo F-3 Matulonis: @f3m
Music classes in grades 1-4 will be spending the first quarter reviewing information that we learned last year. As the
children are ready, we will be progress into new music concepts and expanding our repertoire.
PreK and Kindergarten are off to a great start. We will be focused on matching pitch and steady beat. Kinder will
also focus on the comparatives of high-low, loud-soft, fast-slow and long-short. You can help by singing and
dancing with your keiki!
Everyone has started working on their Winter Program songs. Music, lyric and video resources will be available after
Fall break for practice at home.
If you ever have any questions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Mahalo for your support,
Mrs. Saggers
Grades 3-6, starting Fitness Gram please look at Fitness Gram .net and Presidential Fitness web site for more
information, This is a national test we will be primarily testing grades 5 and 6 and grades 3 and 4 will be doing
an introduction to the tests. Tests will be graded on how students answer questions not based on test scores.
We will be testing the following areas
-Aerobic fitness -Muscular Strength -Muscular Endurance -
Flexibility -Body Composition
Encourage you to go over the web sites and talk about the test results as a family. The tests are to spark fitness
and health, physical activity, healthy eating, social enjoyment, and avoid and decrease all diseases.
Grades K-2, starting basic movements and skills such as
-Skipping -Walking -jog -slide -gallop -leaping
-Lessons to come are bean bag and playground ball skills and various tag games and fitness circuits for each
lesson that include cardio and muscle building
All students in are learning how to handle problems by using Talk, Rock, Walk, and explaining Bullying and
how to use T,R,W to handle bullies. Talk with your student and be active and eat healthy with them.
Aloha,
Mr. Saggers
M o k a p uG r o w t hM i n d s e t
Mokapu Elementary
1193 Mokapu Road, Kailua, HI 96734
Phone: (808) 254-7964 / Fax: (808) 254-7969
Attendance: (808) 254-7968
Parents,
When Mokapu was originally built it was not designed to be such a large school. As such, some
areas like our parking, drop-off, and pick-up areas are not adequate. However, if drivers are
courteous, aware, and follow the guidelines it can still be safe and efficient.
Parking
The parking lot in front of the school is for staff only with the exception of the first 3 spots on the
east side. They are 15 minute max visitor spots. The first parking lot on the east side of campus is
also a staff only lot. 3d Marines have graciously allowed us the use of the next parking lot and
adjacent grass lot for parents and visitors.
Dropping off
Please use the loop in front of the school as your primary drop off point for your child. Pull all the
way up. Your target time should be between 7:40 and 7:50. Kindergarten students will wait
safely in the cafeteria until time to head to class. If you must you can also use the loop in the east
parking lot.
Picking up
Please use the loop in front of the school as your primary pick up point for your child. Pull all the
way up. You can wait in line or come 10 minutes after dismissal and drive right in. The east
parking loop is a less-preferred alternative if you must use it. Please be sure your child knows
which loop to go to. Kindergarten students will be released at the loop in front of the school.
Be Aware
We are working with PMO to make the east parking lot as safe as possible. Many parents and
children cross the parking lot and traffic to arrive and depart school. Please always allow
pedestrians to cross first at any part of the parking lot.
With a diligent eye and courteous attitude we can ensure that everyone will be safe during our
arrival and dismissal times. Thank you for your support and don’t hesitate to contact us with any
ideas for improvement.
Our Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support System (PBIS) will be kicking off this month with our first
monthly value of RESPECT. Your child(ren) will be learning what respect means, what it looks like, and why
it is important. They will also be given an Imua ticket whenever an adult on campus sees them displaying
characteristics of respect, which they can redeem on Friday after school for an ice pop.
Please help support our Imua values by having your child(ren) wear the color blue on Wed,
September 7th. Practice the Golden Rule
Practice Random acts of kindness
Practice saying please and “thank you” and “excuse me”
Make a point of not teasing and encourage your friends not to.
Be patient with yourself and others when a mistakes is made.
