520 West One Street  Kahului, Maui

January 16th, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Weekly Recap My classroom visits were not as frequent this week.  All classes were busy taking their MAP tests and we are nearly finished in the first week of our testing window.  GREAT JOB!  Mr. Jurchen helped some student leaders as we learned some new choreography for one of the chapel songs.  Last but not least, preparation for Spirit Week is underway!  We are working to bring back a condensed version of *Field Day (thanks to Ms. Jordy

January 9th, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Weekly Recap In Preschool I saw students listening to stories and playing quietly during center time. Kindergarteners were practicing foundational handwriting, focusing on the letter 'c' and its stroke similarity to 'a' for future fluency.  1st Graders were writing personal narratives from the Christmas break in morning journals. 2nd Graders worked on narrative structure (sequencing beginning, middle, end) while writing creative "winter" st

January 2nd, 2026 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Our Winter Break is nearly finished!  Happy New Year! I hope and pray that everyone had a safe and enjoyable Christmas break with loved ones. Remember that there are NO CLASSES this Monday.  This will be a teacher work day.  We will resume classes on Tuesday January 6th, 2026!   Just a few items to note: FIELD UPDATE You will see that our field is about ⅔ black top right now.  This is just temporary.  The final surfacing will take place ove

December 19th, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord" - Luke 2:11 First off, I would like to say thank you once again for the tremendous support of our Christmas Concert last Friday.  We really filled the church and the students did a great job!  Every song was a great reminder of the “gift” we celebrate this season. Weekly Recap The excitement was pretty evident this morning as soon as kids jumped out of

December 12th, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Christmas Concert tonight - 6:00PM - St. Anthony Catholic Church.  Preschool and concert band students please arrive by 5:30.  All other students should arrive by 5:45.  We will get kids in their places and open the door for parents at 5:50.   Please have your child wear "nice clothes" to the concert. Christmas colors are encouraged, but not required. No t-shirts. Boys should wear long pants if possible. No crocs. Athletic or dress shoes

December 5th, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Weekly Recap It was good to get back into the swing of things this week.  I pray that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break.    In preschool this week, they had a “snowball” match with 5th graders.  I was also able to spend a little time in Mrs. Decoite’s class building houses and railroad tracks.  In kindergarten, I seem to pop in during snack a LOT!  Today I went down and it was recess, the sandbox was a huge hit.  I know in the cl

November 21, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, REMINDER!  K-8 students will dismiss at 1:30 today with no after school care.  Students in Preschool will come to school for Friendsgiving with their special guests and leave with them at the conclusion of the festivities.    Weekly Recap First off, thank you to all the 3rd and 4th families who joined us for worship this past Sunday.  The church reached maximum capacity.  We only have room for 150 chairs and 170 were in attendance!  It was

November 14, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Weekly Recap Preschoolers were enjoying some play time, getting ready for a bear hunt, and practicing their counting skills. Kindergarten - I was able to snap a picture with some friends wearing aloha attire. I also heard some students reading out loud (very impressive).  They were able to tell me when to use “a” and “an” in a sentence.  Great work! 1st Grade - Students were carefully working in the phonics workbook and had just finished a

November 7, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Weekly Recap Welcome to November!  This week at ELS, Preschool students explored rhyming words and recognizing the sound of their classmates' voices.  The special person of the week invited me to share in the incredible Kindergarten buffet. 1st Grade was excited to play “capture the flag” during PE with Uncle Malik. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades were deeply engaged in Language Arts, practicing spelling words, writing paragraphs with strong t

October 31st, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Weekly Recap Believe it or not, this was our 1st 5 day week in the month of October.  I can’t believe it will be November when we return on Monday.  This week I stopped into all the classrooms for a weekly check in.  In preschool, I got a few high fives and hugs at snack time.  In kindergarten I saw students being great listeners with volunteers in class for centers.  1st graders were identifying things that come in pairs.  2nd graders wer

October 27th, 2025 Aloha ELS ‘Ohana, Fall Festival For some reason I didn’t send a Friday letter last week….  It must have had something to do with Friday being FALL FESTIVAL!!   Last week was a great week at school with lots of wonderful things going on in the classrooms but the culmination of the week was (without a doubt) the festivities on Friday night! I cannot thank you enough for the support that was provided to bring everything together.  It all starts with Ms. Omura

October 18th, 2025 Aloha ELS Ohana, Weekly Happenings This week flew by!  I didn’t get into classrooms as much as I would have liked this week.   But the few that I stopped into were hard at work with division, calculating area, practicing spelling words, and having discussions about learning from mistakes.    Thank you for taking the time to meet with your teachers this week.  Our work at ELS is a partnership with YOU!   Fall Festival The 2nd quarter is fully underway and th

October 2nd, 2025 Aloha ELS Ohana, This weekly edition will be very short.  A few reminders, including Fall Festival Class Basket Information and Volunteer Sign Ups.  There is also information about Parent Teacher Conferences. This is also another friendly reminder that we will have early dismissal today, Thursday 10/02. Please be prompt in picking up your child. Preschool Dismissal @ 11:15-11:30am - NO PRE+ K-8 Dismissal @ 1:30pm - NO E+ There is no school on Friday 10/03 a

September 26, 2025 Week 5 Highlights Preschoolers  enjoyed PE with Ms. Jordynn.  They also learned about various types of apples and had...

September 12, 2025 Week 7 Highlights Preschoolers  enjoyed Scholastic News, center play, and story time. Kindergarteners  went on a...

September 12th, 2025 Aloha ELS families, Principal’s Note This week certainly had a few somber moments. Obviously, the anniversary of...

Aloha ELS Families, Week 5 Highlights PS - students were looking through books, listening when teachers read to them, and counting to 10....

Aloha ELS Families, Week 4 Highlights Preschool welcomed some new friends, listened to a guest reader, and had fun during play time....

Aloha ELS Families, Just a reminder that tonight is Pāʻina Night!  Hope to see you at 5:30.  Please bring your food to the 8th Grade Room...

Aloha ELS Families, Just a reminder that tomorrow, August 15th there are NO CLASSES.   Week 3 Highlights I am starting to learn new...