Alan Davis Tidepool With Wlliam

At July 10 Mauka Makai 4-5 went to this place called Alan Davis Tidepools. We each brought a net and a bucket. When we went in, I was a little scared but I was fine. I first got a hermit crab. Soon I had 16 hermit crabs but I really wanted a fish. I tried to get some but I found my 17th 18th 19th 20!!
Finally I got two fish on my 26th try then I dumped the fish in water bin then I had snack. Then we were going to leave with an oli mahalo. I learned that sea creatures like freedom but they also are great to meet.
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Eco-Awareness Workshop

Eco-Awareness Workshop

By: Aerin Dias

    On Wednesday we worked on a trash timeline, but first we did a treasure hunt. We had to find a couple of things, like a decomposing leaf, a bug and other things too. When we had found as much as we could we split into two groups and put our things in a circle. Afterwards we did our trash timeline. We were in two separate groups and put things on the timeline depending on how quickly we thought it would decompose. After we were done we compared with the real answers, my group did well. My favorite part was when we did the treasure hunt. I had lots of fun! 

Making Gyotaku

Making Gyotaku

 By:Cable Kronen

           Long ago, fish printing was invented when fishermen had to prove that they had caught a fish. Why? Well, there were no cameras long ago in Japan! So, on Tuesday we did a fish printing or "Gyotaku". We first did practice paper where we covered a fish with ink and stamped it on a piece of paper. Later, we did a real high quality print with nice paper and ink. Once we finished the real print we wrote a little Japanese on the paper.

Alan Davis Tidepools

Alan Davis Tidepools

By: Shun Fujita

     Yesterday we went to the Alan Davis Tidepools which was an awesome, beautiful, blue beach. That day we caught fish in their black rocky habitats. We caught hermit crabs and different kinds of fish. This helped us learn about their size and their habitats. It was a lot of fun, but dangerous because the rocks were really slippery to walk on. The waves were big, too, I wanted to catch more fish. I only caught a grey fish and a couple of hermit crabs. I want to come with my friends and have a contest or a game!

Waikiki Aquarium and Beach

On Friday our class went to Waikiki Aquarium. On the walk to the aquarium, we saw the Duke Kahanamoku statue. We learned that Duke loved surfing and wanted to teach everyone else how to surf. When we got to the beach, we got to swim for 20 minutes.

At the aquarium, we saw a little fish tank with lots of cool fish and cool coral too! Then, we put our bags in a small room and went inside. We had to split up into groups and went into different exhibits, so we only had a little bit of time for each exhibit. There were so many cool exhibits and one of them was a shark tank with sharks, big and small! Another favorite exhibit was the one with the Christmas wrasse. It had so many colors, like blue, red, orange, and yellow too! We also saw the jellyfish tank The jelly fish were so big!

We had to go to the aquarium so we could get ideas to help us with our art project, where we had to make a pinch pot of the coral reef.  Some of the reef animals that I researched was the sea horse and the Christmas wrasse, also I also looked at a turtle.

Plants in Hawaii

   Last week we learned about the difference between native Hawaiian plants and canoe plants. The coconut traveled to Hawaii on the ocean currents. Because the coconut floated to Hawaii people started collecting coconuts and they would replant it so they could always have access to coconuts. Another plant is the kalo plant, it can be used as food and decoration. We eat the kalo as poi and use the leaves to make lau lau. The hala tree, another native plant, is easily recognized by its supporting base, or big roots. The roots help to hold up the tree against strong winds.
   Another plant is the banana tree, in Hawaiian is called a mai'a. It is used for baking. Noah's favorite plant in the garden is the lettuce plant. He also likes kale and kalo because of the smell and uses. Noah's least favorite plant in the garden is the nut grass because it is a weed and makes the garden look ugly. Today when we went to the garden we saw an unusual flower growing on one of the plants. Learning about the native plants and the canoe plants was fun because we got to see all of the different kinds of plants.

Native and Canoe Plants

By Emali and John

Last week, we had to study about native Hawaiian plants and canoe plants. We learned that native plants were here from the three W's, which are: wind, waves, and wings. Canoe plants were brought over here by canoes, like coconuts.

It was awesome because some of the plants we studied, we eat in our food and we also grew in 

our garden at Winnie. 

When researching, we also learned about what the Hawaiians did back then and what they did with their food and plants, like using the plants for medicine too. When we studied the plants, we had to write facts about what our teachers were telling us and what we learned from the books and internet. They told us about how there was a war, how they lived back then, how the had to survive in their little homes, and how they shared their things with each other and with the chief.