BEACH BOT BUDDIES STATE - Core Values Inspiration Award

Congratulations to Jessica Tunick, Kailani Balbas, Samantha Mallari, Shaila Iredale, Jade Gallegos, Skyler Lorenzo, Jarren Paino, Reese Martin, Craig Stephenson, and Shaina Wandasan for winning 1st place honors for the Core Values Inspiration Award at the First Lego League State Competition on December 5th.  They competed against 42 teams from both public and private schools statewide.  All the confidence, hard work and commitment paid off for these students.    What an accomplishment!      Go Voyagers!!! You make us proud!!!

Career Day Speakers Needed!

Would you like to share and promote your profession to our 5^th and 6^th graders at Holomua?  If you said yes, then Career Day is the perfect day to share for you!  You can help educate our students about the vast array of careers available.  We would love your participation and would appreciate your time.

Career Day consists of groups of students rotating to various speakers to get a range of options for their future.  We will rotate the groups (consist of 15-20 students) within a two-hour block and each session will be around 20 minutes.  We know your work time is valuable and would appreciate any time you can provide us.  

Our career days will be on: 

February 2, 2016 (Tuesday) from 9:30AM –noon (Blue/Yellow Track)

March 2, 2016 (Wednesday)  from 9:30 AM - noon (Red/Green Track)

The counseling department has been coordinating the annual Career Day for the past few years and we are always looking for volunteers to share about their career.  If you or someone you know would like to be a speaker, please send this form back to the counseling department.  If you have any questions, please feel free to call Shari Reilly at 685-9100 x310 or email at shari_reilly@notes.k12.hi.us. 

Mahalo,

The Counseling Department             

Managing Homework Time . . .

It was another super successful workshop titled “Managing Homework Time” with Dr. Dale Fryxell, Holomua’s Psychologist and Consultant. Dr. Fryxell spoke regarding a child’s homework routine and how to manage their time more wisely. He had some really good input on the length of time a child takes to complete their work, as well as choosing adequate areas around the home with fewer distractions. Our parents always have a wealth of information when attending any of our workshops.

Dr. Fryxell, Holomua Elementary School PSAP consultant talks to the parents about different strategies they could use during homework time to help their child.Parents were able to ask questions regarding the difficulties they’ve encountered while trying to get their children to do their homework. There were some great questions and responses by both Dr. Fryxell and the parents, while networking

with each other.

Holomua JPOs go to Aiea Bowl!

Do you know what the Holomua’s JPOs did on November 19, 2015? That’s right! We went bowling at Aiea Bowl. Our JPOs had so much fun bowling and spending time together.

The field trip was just one of the incentives that our JPOs enjoy throughout the year for all of their hard work with keeping our school and children safe.

BEACH BOT BUDDIES PROGRESS TO STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Congratulations to Jessica Tunick, Kailani Balbas, Samantha Mallari , Shaila Iredale,Jade Gallegos, Skyler Lorenzo, Jarren Paino, Reese Martin, Craig Stephenson, and Shaina Wandasan for such an awesome performance at the First Lego League District Qualifier on Wednesday, Nov 11th, held at Le Jardin Academy. They won 1st Place awards for Project Presentation and Robot Performance, and 2nd Place for Core Values/Teambuilding.  Holomua's Beach Bot Buddies have earned their way to the First Lego League State Championships on Saturday, Dec. 5th. There will be 42 teams from both public and private schools sharing their presentations and running their robots all in the spirit of “coopertition”!  We wish Holomua's Beach Bot Buddies much success! Go Voyagers! You make us proud!! 

Special thanks and a pat on the back to coaches Justin Furuta and Colleen Hokutan for all the time and hard work invested to build another championship team!!! 

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

 Congratulations to our students for receiving the following awards for 1st Quarter:

 For Grades 4-6 we had 182 students attain Honor Roll and 28 students attain  

 Principal’s List.  The students receiving principal’s list got to eat lunch with Mr.  

 Yasui on a special lunch day.

 For Grades pre-school - 6th grade we had 431 students attain Perfect Attendance  

 for the quarter!  The awardees for perfect attendance received a special treat  

 from Romano’s Macaroni Grill for a free kid’s meal.  

Congratulations and Go Voyagers!!

PROJECT UNIFY BASKETBALL

Congratulations to Holomua’s Project Unify Basketball team for receiving Bronze medals at the Special Olympics State Winter Classic on Sat, 11/21/15.  Special thanks to their coaches Julie Bonilla & Joyce Agcaoili for their hard work