• Please have children get ample sleep and be well rested for Friday and Saturday.

• All children will report to their classrooms by 5:00 p.m. (except choir members who report to Mrs. Koshi)
• Children should be dressed in board shorts or surf shorts, a t-shirt, and slippers
• Girls should have their hair in a ponytail.
• In the classroom the children will receive their costume bag and change their t-shirts into the official program t-shirt provided by the school and their capes or other costuming.
• Children will place the t-shirt they wore to school in their costume bag (with their name on it). 
• The teacher will walk the students down to Scudder Hall for warm-up. The children will bring their costume bag with them.
• Upon completion of the opera, the children will return to Scudder, where they will change back into their own t-shirts (girls will change in the kitchen area), neatly fold their performance t-shirt and cape or other costuming, and replace it in their costume bag.
  

• Children will be dismissed from Scudder Hall (the middle school/high school dining room) after they change and parents have signed them out with the teacher.
• Choir members check in and check out with Mrs. Koshi.
• If parents are not attending a performance, plan to pick up your child from Scudder at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and 7:00 p.m. on Saturday.
  

• Our class is performing on the left side of the gym when facing the stage.  The children will be on stage the entire performance, and I suggest sitting on the bleachers on the left side of the gym for the best viewing.  There are four sections of bleachers, and the middle two sections would be the ideal spot (see diagram on the paper that was sent home with your child today).

• All children will report to their classrooms by 5:00 pm.
• They should be dressed in board shorts or surf shorts, a t-shirt, and slippers.
  
• Girls should have their hair in a ponytail.
• In the classroom the children will receive their costume bag.
  
• They will change their t-shirts into the official program t-shirt provided by the school and their capes or other costuming.
  
• They will place the t-shirt they wore to school in their costume bag (with their name on it). 
• The teacher will walk the students down to Scudder Hall for warm-up. The children will bring their costume bag with them.
• Upon completion of the opera, the children will return to Scudder, where they will change back into their own t-shirts (girls will change in the kitchen area), neatly fold their performance t-shirt and cape or other costuming, and replace it in their costume bag.
• Children will be dismissed from Scudder Hall after their change and parents have signed them out.
  

• Potluck dinner in classroom, 5:30-6:00 pm
  
• Science Festival in elementary dining room, 6:00-8:00 pm
• See detailed Note below
  

• Opera Performances at MPI gym
• School day as usual
• For 6:00 pm performance, students arrive at 5:00 pm to get ready.
  

• Students arrive at 5:00 pm to get ready

• Each 1/2 class will have a potluck from 5:30 to 6:00 ip.m. in their respective classroom.  Stay tuned for details from your room parent.
• The event is JUST for first- and second-grade MPI students and their parent(s).  We love siblings, but there is not enough room to accommodate all the parents, students, and siblings.
• If your child is going to attend, he/she must be accompanied by at least one adult.
• Parking will be down by the gym or possibly on the football field.
• This is not a mandatory school event.  

• Matter is anything that takes up space and has weight.
• Solids have a shape of their own.
• Liquids take the shape of the container they are in and go every direction except upwards.
• Gases have no shape, take up the maximum space possible, and expand in all directions.
• When matter is heated, it changes from a solid to a liquid and then to gas.  
• Temperature changes matter.  Heating something will cause it to get big (expand) and cooling it will cause it to get small (contract).
• When matter is cooled, it changes from the gaseous (or vaporous) state to the liquid state and from the liquid to the solid state.  
  

• Monday, March 31 - Field Trip to Hawaii Theatre for Youth production of Ferdinand the Bull at Tenney Theatre.  Bus leaves school at 8:45 am and returns at 10:30 am.  Please have your child wear their school polo shirt and closed-toe shoes.
  

On Friday, March 14 (the last school day before Spring Break), we have an afternoon of excitement!  At 11:00 a.m., the entire Elementary School will head down to the Middle School/High School to celebrate the MPI community at our annual Ho'olaule'a.  The students will eat lunch and participate in the activities.  Next week, in preparation for the event, the students will talk about how they plan to use their money to buy food and play games.  We will discuss the price of various items and rehearse giving scrip to purchase food or play games.  Our class will spend a couple of hours at the event, and the children will be responsible for making independent choices (with supervision) and pacing themselves - both financially and physically.  With all the commotion of Ho'olaule'a, I would love to have some parents join their child and possibly assist with chaperoning a few students in our class.  If you are interested in attending Ho'olaule'a during the school day, please e-mail me or telephone the classroom.

Some logistics for Ho'olaule'a

• Purchase Scrip by Thursday, March 6.  It is suggested that you purchase $5-$7 for your child to eat lunch and play some games.  Please do not purchase more than $7 unless you will be attending Ho'olaule'a with your child.
• If you are joining our class, meet at Room 11 by 11:00 a.m., and we will all walk down together.  If you are coming later (but before 2:00), you can meet us at the event.
• We will return to our classroom at 2:00 p.m.
• If you are taking your child home from Ho'olaule'a, please sign them out with me before you leave.
• There will be after-school care and auto-line pick-up as usual.
  

• We’re not sure how old Wailele is.
• Wailele’s water comes from Manoa Falls.  It has an underground tunnel like veins.  
• It’s not polluted.  It has organic material from the things inside the pond, like the turtles, crayfish, and fish.  
• If you boil the water, you could probably drink it.
• Trash blows in.  People sometimes throw in trash.
• It’s a spring.  Underground water feeds the water source.
• We’re not sure if it ever had hot water.
• The fence was for protection for little kids who don’t know how to swim and might drown.  Also dogs, cats, and other animals.  
• Wailele used to be really big.  When they built the fields, they put concrete around the edges.
• Water never flows uphill. It always flows down.
  
• Sea level is the level of the sea.
• Elevation is the height between sea level and the height we’re at now.
• Sometimes when the water is really high, it goes out of the spring and onto the field.
• When the water gets high, it goes down the drain, down a bigger drain, into the Ala Wai Canal, and into the ocean.
• The water goes from the roofs to the broken pipe to the field.
• When the water is low, the spring gets dry, so the maintenance workers put water in it so the fish and turtles stay alive.
• There are one big turtle and three small turtles.  The turtles grow every day.  Somebody put the turtles in the spring.
• Water sometimes goes through the cracks and onto the field. They’re working on the drainage pipe.  They’re working on cleaning the spring of trash.
• When it rains, the water can flood the field (make puddles). It fills up the spring. The water can evaporate, or it can go into the ground (percolate).
  

• Where does the water come from and go?
• Why is there a fence?
• Is the water polluted?
  

• The fence is there so people do not fall in.
• The water is not polluted.
• The water comes from the back of the valley, the underground tunnels or rivers, and then it goes to the ocean.