From the Principal

Principal's Weekly Letter - Dec. 5th

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

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Principal's Weekly Letter - Nov. 21

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

Nov 21

Principal's Weekly Letter - Nov. 14

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

Nov 14

Principal's Weekly Letter - Nov. 7th

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

Nov 7

Principal's Weekly Letter - Oct. 31

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

Oct 31

Principal's Weekly Letter - Oct. 27

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

Oct 27

Principal's Weekly Letter - Oct. 17th

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

Oct 17

Principal's Weekly Letter - Oct. 2

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

Oct 2