Firsts and lasts
Matthew Callahan & David Pang
August 31, 2011
As the senior class of 2012 heads off into the world, they are replaced by a crowd of 71 eager, nervous, and excited young students that make up the class of 2024. As these Kindergartners begin the first week of their first year of ‘Iolani, a very important member of the ‘Iolani community begins... Read more »
Fifth graders learn about everyday heroes
David Ling
December 15, 2010
On Nov. 26, the annual fifth grade play was held in the Lower Gym. The theme this year was how heroes are all around you, both throughout history and today. In each fifth garde play, characters from movies and shows are brought to life to help portray the lessons. This year, the plot featured the movie... Read more »
First graders and kindergartners give thanks
Eden Koo
December 15, 2010
As the holiday season quickly approaches, young kindergarten and first grade students took a day off from their classes to celebrate Thanksgiving through the annual Pilgrim Celebration Day. On Nov. 19, parents and teachers transformed the Lower School classrooms and playground into “Plymouth Plantation”... Read more »
Teramae brings new outlook and energy to Lower School
David Ling
October 20, 2010
When I was in Lower School and I talked too loudly in class or played too roughly during recess, it would be Mr. Fred Okumura who reprimanded me. Mr. Okumura spent 33 years as the Dean of Lower School. These days, however, there’s a new dean. You may have seen him around school, smiling energetically... Read more »
A man to remember
Iris Kuo
May 27, 2010
Mr. Frederick Okumura has spent fifty-two years of his life at ‘Iolani School- thirteen as a student, six as the 7th/8th grade counselor, and thirty-three as the Dean of Lower School. Mr. Okumura’s retirement was announced in chapel to the lower school students. “I was so happy that nobody cheered,”... Read more »
Thank you, Mrs. White, we’ll miss you
Iris Kuo
May 25, 2010
In Mrs. White’s classroom, hands-on opportunities for learning are all over. In a corner, there is a carpet with a map of the planets for students to sit and read after class. A bowl of beetles and oats sits on a table, in the middle, along with some insects in glass jars. On a shelf lined up by... Read more »
Aquaponics
Iris Kuo
May 5, 2010
In Lower School, Mrs. Laurie White and Mrs. Joann Stepien are heading an aquaponics experiment. Aquaponics is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment (Portable Farms Aquaponics Systems). In the general setup of the systems, the tubs with fish are on the... Read more »
Second grade performs “Families are Forever”
Iris Kuo
March 9, 2010
On Thursday, February 25 and Friday February 26, the second graders performed Families are Forever in Seto Hall. In preparation for the play, the students interviewed their parents and grandparents and began rehearsing in January. Families are Forever was fashioned as a broadcast from the radio show... Read more »
Third graders “Bebop with Aesop”
Iris Kuo
February 17, 2010
The third grade students put on their annual play on Friday, Feb.5. This year’s was titled “Bebop with Aesop.” The students taught the audience morals by acting out some of Aesop’s fables. The first moral was “Look Before You Leap.” In this part of the play, some frogs got stuck... Read more »
A skit for “spider lady”
Iris Kuo
February 2, 2010
As the school prepared for Keables Chair Dr. Cheryl Hayashi’s visit, Lower School was busy with a welcome of their own. The fifth grade class, guided by several teachers, will put on a skit that reenacts the myth of Arachne.* Mrs. Ellen Gaylor, one of the two lower school science teachers, used to... Read more »
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