10/31: HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HAPPENINGS!

Costume Contest Winner:  Ms. Tateyama's Period 1!

Costume Contest Runner-up:  Ms. Jurisch's Period 1!

Colonel B???

Officers get ready to pass out treats!

GO, GO Power RAN-gers!

Don't you feel like some Mexican food for some reason?

Pretty, cute, cool and scary....YOU decide who gets what label!

Three blind mice, see how they run!

Ojiichan!  Daijoubu desu ka?

Sriracha anyone?

Straight out of Grease....the Pink Ladies and friends!

Can we show this picture?

Almost breakfast:  bacon and chicken (eggs)!

It seemed like EVERYONE dressed up this year!  Halloween is a pretty big deal at Moanalua, and it showed in the number and creativity of the costumes this year.  Besides the usual princesses and monsters, also spotted were three blind mice, Pink Ladies, pregnant women (hmmm...), and food such as bacon, tacos, bananas, and a bottle of Sriracha!  A costume contest started off the day, followed by officers passing out treats at recess, and finally a FREE ice cream sundae social for all dressed out honor roll students!  Happy Halloween, Menes, and trick or treat safely!

10/23: HERE COMES THE CLASS OF 2018!

Justin, Selena, Jannah and Jamie man the SA booth!

Ms. Kado-Fukuda goes over graduation requirements.

Language Arts is expertly covered by Ms. Voss.

Already?  It's only October!  Well, Moanalua High School annually hosts Registration Night, a special night for all parents/guardians of current 8th graders now registering for high school.  At this event, the principal, counselors and the registrar go over procedures and rules that must be followed to ensure a smooth registration process.  In addition, department chairs hold special sessions for their individual subject matters in break out rooms after the general meeting.  SA Executive Council members serve as parent guides as well as run an information booth for anyone interested in co-curricular activities.  We look forward to seeing the Class of 2018 next year!

10/18: WELCOME BAAAACK!

Cheerleaders open the formal program!

The VIP's were appreciative!

Exchanging of gifts is very traditional!

Hiroshima Kokutaiji sings its school song!

All Hail, Moanalua.....

Kokutaiji boys learn a hula!

More hula....

....and more!

While others learned a contemporary dance!

Ms. Ainsworth really gets into it!

Hiroshima Ondo....view from above!

....and below!

Moanalua students (now wearing the happy coats) also get to learn the dance!

Everyone gets to know each other better!

Once again this year, Moanalua's sister school from Japan, Hiroshima Kokutaiji, made its annual trek across the Pacific for a visit.  And, once again, thanks to the efforts of Wong Sensei and the World Language staff as well as a large group of student volunteers, the day was filled with activities for the Japanese students.  A formal program kicked off the visit and was soon followed with several activity groups including cheerleading, dancing, and games.  Each group made presentations for the rest of the participants.  After a short campus tour and lunch, everyone returned to the gym where the Kokutaiji students put on a mass group dance to Hiroshima Ondo.  Finally, and probably the best part of the visit, Moanalua and Kokutaiji students were given the opportunity to talk to one another in smaller groups where they got to learn about each other in greater detail.  It's not every school and student who gets a chance to get to know a peer from another country!  Let's meet again soon!

10/14-18: NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH WEEK!

Thanking our staff members should be something we do on a daily basis, but the week of October 14-18 is the one time that we set aside to honor our school cafeteria workers nationally!  So, this week the student body officers and class officers from each grade level took a moment to honor our hard working cafeteria staff.  THANK YOU to Manager Carolyn Lopes and her staff for making our school lunch program so wonderful!

10/11: CYS PROVIDES NEW LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY!

Ready to get to work!

Jannah gives some final instructions!

Aaaand, weeee're MARCHING!

Some issue groups were small!

Some were large!

And all were made up of a wide variety of age groups!

 



So, we've done leadership training before with elementary and middle schoolers, and we've done it with just high schoolers, too, but we've never had a leadership opportunity that stretched from elementary students to adults as well!  Today's Children and Youth Summit (CYS) at the State Capitol provided just that opportunity!  With five topics:  Economy, Education, Environment and Sustainability, Health and Human Services, and Civil and Human Rights, officers facilitated wide age variety discussion groups coming up with suggestions for the state legislature on which specific areas or topics they would like to see addressed.  It was an interesting and fun experience, and we got to know a lot of new people as well!  Most importantly, we hope that the issues will ultimately make it to the legislative floor and improve the quality of life for everyone in Hawaii.

10/3: COMPLEX CONFERENCE A PREVIEW TO FUTURE LEADERS!

This is a "Repeat after me energizer!"

A-"wrist"-a-sha....

People Bingo mixes 'em up!

Learning a valuable Interactive Method (IM) lesson!

More IM.....

And even MORE!

Most important part of the conference...LUNCH!

Communication:  How to prepare a bagel snack!

Making a public speech is never easy!

Learn to take some risks!

Team building "music videos" are always popular!

Everyone gets involved....

.....and like OHANA, no one gets left behind!



Final Ohana Group Shot (click to enlarge)

 

MOHSSA Facilitators
(Top, l-r):  Carmen Rodriguez, Devin Soogrim, Eunica Escalante, Lei Lily Tam, Justin Honda, Jennifer Mead, Mark Meno, and Jocelyn Yip.  (Bottom, l-r):  Selena Fung, Jamie Hwang, Jessel Dela Cruz, Marlene Loui, and Jannah Dela Cruz.

"Ohana Means Family:  No One Gets Left Behind!"  The 2013 Moanalua Complex Conference again attracted almost 140 participants from grades 3-8 from all the schools that feed into the high school:  Moanalua Middle and Moanalua, Red Hill, Salt Lake and Shafter Elementary Schools.  The conference helps train student leaders from each school, and hopefully, they will continue in student government and eventually participate at the high school level.  Special thanks go out to the chaperones/advisors:  Ms. Renae Villa (MMS), Mr. Jeff Wong (MES), Mr. Richard Jimenez (RHES), Ms. Mae Masuda-Kop (SLES), and Ms. Adria Matsumura and Ms. Sheri Fujii (ShES).  And of course, thank you to the high school facilitators who smoothly ran all the workshops and other events.  Hope to see everyone back in 2014!