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FRIDAY BLAST
Patrick
Ching
Workshops

Issue, Date

January
21,
February
4,
February
18,
and
March
18:
We
are
pleased
to
have
Patrick
Ching
returning
to
our
school
to

once
again
offer
his
basic
drawing
and
painting
workshops.

If
you
have
already
had
the
opportunity
to
attend
his

Quisque:
workshop,
please
give
others
a
chance
to
sign
up.

Email
Ms.
Andrus
at
mandrus@hawaiitechacademy.org
to
reserve

your
seat.



(Options
to
register
for)

Gr.
K‐6






Drawing
Basics




11:00
–
12:00






24
seats
available




(4
meetings,
January
21,
February
4,
February
18,

2
and
March
18)

Gr.
7‐12




Painting
Basics




12:30
–
2:30








10
seats
available




(4
meetings,
January
21,
February
4,
February
18,

and
March
18)

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MOVIE NIGHT
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Movie Night is on Friday, January 28th from 5:00-8:00 and is Cras congue, sapien vitae vestibulum
for Elementary and Middle School students. Admission is adipiscing, erat lacus commodo
lectus, in imperdiet massa risus vel
by donation. Proceeds will go to the Student Government tellus. Sed tincidunt cursus libero.

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fund. Students will sign up for a movie room. Movie Donec consectetuer, dui vitae congue
rhoncus, enim libero egestas ante.
choices are: Fusce euismod tempus nulla. Donec
pellentesque mattis diam.
⇒ Toy Story 3
⇒ Despicable Me
⇒ Bedtime Stories
⇒ How to Train Your Dragon
Food and drinks will be available for
sale at the following prices:
Drinks= 50 cents
Popcorn=$1.00
Pizza=$2.00 Mark your calendars, High
Candy Bars=$1.00 School Students! Prom will
be on April 30th from 6:00-
11:00pm. More information
will be coming soon.

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There is still an opportunity to get your Jamba

Juice Appreiation card. This card provides HTA
PTSA with a portion of your Jamba Juice
purchases. Please get your card at the front desk.

Hi HTA Families,

One of the many questions I receive from parents is how to help their
children become organized. I spotted this article below and thought this
would definitely be beneficial to parents and students who are having a
difficult time with organizational skills.
Article on Organization on page 3

Elementary Environmental Club OAHU

Elementary

Environmental
Club

Meeting
Tuesday


January
25,
2011

@
2PM

Come
see
how
to
track
the

sea
turtle
nest
we
adopted

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By Michele Borba, Ed.D., GalTime Parenting Pro
Monday, August 30, 2010

The secret to teaching organizational skills is to take on just one troubling issue at a time, find a simple solution that
fits your child, and then stick to it until that new organization system becomes habit. Here are a few solutions to
boost your kid’s organizational skills...
1. Stop rescuing. Your first step is often the hardest (but most important). If you really, really want your child
to learn how to be better organized then you must stop being his personal assistant. So take a vow that you
will teach your child organization skills, and then once he learns them you will step back and make him be
responsible for any consequences (like missing a deadline, losing a library book, misplacing sports gear).
Better he learn the lesson now than later.

2. Create a place for everything. Your next step is to help your kid organize what she has in order to make
things easier to find and put away. Don’t go getting crazy here. Just identify the “code red” areas that usually
cause the stress and argument, and find a simple solution. Here are three common organizational problems
and a few solutions. The trick is to find what works for your child and stick to that solution.

Problem: Can’t find her shoes and jackets. Solution: Clean out the closet and then purchase a few inexpensive
closet organizers so she can find and put things away quicker.
Problem: Misplacing school papers and supplies. Solution: Put a hook by the front door to hang the backpack
the second she comes home. All homework goes in and then out of that backpack.
Problem: Missing sports gear. Solution: Place small plastic barrels in the garage with labels (picture form for
younger kids) designating the type of equipment.
3. Reduce clutter. Kids are more organized with less clutter, so now is the time to go through drawers, closets,
toys, and equipment barrels together and help him eliminate those unnecessary extras. Throw away all those
never used or broken things, and try to do so every six to eight week. Then employ these clutter reducers so
your child’s room or homework area at least appears more organized:
Rotate toys. Come on, your kid doesn’t really play with all those toys, right? So put some of those away and
pull them out again in a few weeks. Not only will they seem brand new, but it will also reduce the
clutter. Make a rule that when you pull toys out, you always store others in their place.
Hold a garage sale. Here is your time for your kid to make a little extra cash by selling his old toys, clothes
and books. Hold a family garage sale. Put your kids in charge of making fliers, setting up cash boxes,
and displaying sale items.
Donate to charity. Give your child a box and tell her to stock it with gently used possessions. Then help her
deliver the box to a Goodwill store or charity of her choice.
Under-bed storage. For those occasionally used things, get storage bins that can slide under your child’s bed.
“Out of sight, out of mind” is the organizational strategy. The less seen, the less she can mess up and
lose.

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4. Set a clean up routine. Once your child is more organized, the trick is to
keep to that system. The best way to do so is by enforcing a quick once or SPIRIT
twice a week clean-up brigade policy. Just be realistic and don’t expect
your child’s room to pass the “white gloves” inspection test. Instead, be
WEEK
more realistic and identify those hot spot areas that need continual
Monday 1/24: Wear
upkeep. Then ink the “clean up” dates to your calendar. For instance:
HTA t-shirts
Monday, desk; Tuesday, bedroom; Saturday, sports gear; Sunday,
Tuesday 1/25:
backpack. Employ the “Clean, then Play (or e-mail or call your friends)
Tacky Tuesday
Rule.” My girlfriend has the two most organized kids in town, and
achieved that feat by designating Sunday as the family’s “clean the
Wednesday 1/26:
backpack” day. It took her kids ten minutes to go through their papers,
Pajama Day (must
refill notebooks with binder paper and sharpen those pencils, but the be appropriate and
process helped her brood stay organized. Another friend gets her kids follow dress code)
motivated by setting an oven timer for ten minutes then encourages them Thursday 1/27:
to play “Beat the Clock” and clean up. Career Day (dress
up like someone
5. Boost organization skills. Now it’s time to take on the challenge of you want to be
helping your child learn new skills so he is less likely to need reminders or when you grow up
lose items. The critical point here is that there is no 'best' organization or any profession)
system, so what works for you may not work for your child. Also, don’t get Friday 1/28: Crazy
caught up in fancy, pricey electronic systems or buy something just Hair/Hat Day
because it looks good. The trick is to find a simple system that helps your
child, and then continue to help your child use that strategy until the SPIRIT WEEK
organizer becomes a new habit. There are a wide range of ideas, but choose (January 24-28)
only what helps your kid. Here are a few school organizational ideas:
Show your school spirit
by participating in Spirit
Assign a school buddy. If your child never remembers to write down
Week! Teachers will keep
assignments, this year suggest he get the email and phone number a log of students who
of one peer in each class. Anytime he is in doubt of an assignment, participate by dressing
he calls that kid for verification. up. Teachers with spirit
will count in the total
Color code subjects. Assign a different color for each subject or class then
tally too so encourage
provide a matching colored notebook and divider to store yours to join in the fun!
each item. The grade level with the
Use agendas or calendars. Find a simple calendar where your child highest percentage of
can mark down assignments. You may need to help him participants will get a
special sweet treat. See
update the calendar each day until he finally gets into the
below for themes for each
habit of writing down his own assignments. White boards day.
are also ideal organizers and will last the whole year. You
can find them at office supply stores. Hang it in a visible

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The
Hula
and
Tahitian
Clubs
for
girls
as
well

as
the
Polynesian
Boys

Club
started
up
again
with
the
new
quarter
and
there
are
still
a
few


openings
in
all
of
them.

Your
keiki
will
learn
the
dances
of
the

Islands
and
be
exposed
to
its
history
and
rich
culture.

This
quarter,

we
will
be
performing
a
May
Day
Show.
More
importantly,
your
child

will
be
instilled
with
values
to
develop
and
understand
the
benefits

of
a
"pono"
way
of
life.

If
you
are
interested
in
joining
as
a
new


student
or
have
any
questions,
message
me
at
kumuanela2010@gmail.com.

If
you
are
continuing
from
last
quarter,
just
show
up
to
class
with

your
binder
and
pa'u
skirt.

SPELLING BEE
The School-Level Spelling
Bee for the Scripps
National Spelling Bee will
be held on February 1st and February 8th. Students in grades 1-8 are eligible to compete. Grade
level times will be announced soon. For more information on the Bee and study word lists are
available at http://www.spellingbee.com/

MASCOT CONTEST DEADLINE

The deadline for the mascot contest is Monday, January 31st. Submissions will be judged and a
winner announced on Tuesday, February 1st. If you are interested in participating in this contest,
please make sure you follow all guidelines listed on the attached flyer.

HIGH SCHOOL HANG-OUT NIGHT

On Monday, January 31st from 4:00-8:00 come enjoy hanging out with your friends, listen to
music, and play video games at the LC. Admission is $1.00. Pizza, sodas, and candy bars will be
available for purchase at $1.00 each. This event is a fundraiser for Prom. Please pay your
admission fee to Miss Karen by Monday, January 24th. High school students shouldn’t miss out
on this chance to spend time with friends and lower the cost of Prom tickets.

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spot, such as the kitchen, so you can refer to it.
Try picture charts. Take photographs of your child doing essential tasks (brushing teeth,
hanging up backpack, putting away sports gear) and turn those into a reminder chart.
Pictures and images can help a visual child.
Use checklists. List reoccurring tasks (such as spelling test, library book return, soccer practice),
print off the list and then have your child turn it into a weekly (or daily) check-off list. You
can also slip a checklist into a plastic sleeve or see-through freezer bag so your child can
mark off reoccurring items with a grease pencil and then erase and reuse the list again
and again.
Post deadlines. Encourage your child to write deadlines on post its and place them on a visible
spot like his bathroom mirror, bedroom door or by a nightstand. Buy your child a small bulletin
board to hang on the outside of his bedroom door so he sees the reminder ASAP. The trick is to
teach him to always put the reminder in the same place each and every time.

Thank you to all the students who came in

to take the H.S.A. and thank you to all the
parents for making the commitment to
bring your students in for testing.

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