Moki's Crabby

Not much to report on the home front. Winding down the school year. Spending the entire weekend outside gardening now that Beauty and the Beast is over. My dahlias are starting to bloom. Planting trees. With less lessons over the summer I want to start a vegetable garden. Alex was on the radio today (I'll try to find a link and post it) interviewing the county about sustainable resources in their building and plannin. My mother in law won her state tennis match on Maui and will now compete in nationals! And here is a cute video of Moki's obsession with crabs.

Beauty and the Beast

Featuring violinist Jessica Salerno-Woodbury!
Mrs. Potts, Cogsworth, and Lumier

Belle and the Beast dancing

Cast finale

Opening scene

The funny triplets who adore Gaston

Belle's father enters the castle

The Beast's come down to dinner scene

And my favorite, Be our Guest!

I feel like singing my life in song set to the tune "12 days of Christmas":

After 20 days of company I have the following:

One May Day show,

One circus musical,

One more month of school,

SIX BEAUTY AND THE BEAST SHOWS

Seventy five lessons,

every single week,

2 naughty goats,

and one show at my school in Hawi!

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii

Photos of the mixed level hula performing "Hawaiian Lullaby"
Photo of level 2/3 performing Yellow Ginger Lei

Today was my school's annual May Day program. The theme was flowers and I wrote a script for all the children. They were wonderful and memorized the entire performance! We titled the program "May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii".

Each Hawaiian Island is represented by a different flower. I learned many interesting things while working on the script. Here is a quick break down for you readers!

The Island of Nii'hau's lei are the white PuPu shells. They were Queen Emma's favorite lei.

Kaua'i's color is purple and their lei are the Mokihana berry. This berry can only be found on the island of Kaua'i.

Oahu is Yellow and their lei is the Ilima flower. It takes hundreds of Ilima flowers to make a single strand of this lei.

Moloka'i is green. The lei are the kukui nut, leaf, and flower.

Lana'i is orange and their lei are the Kauna'oa vine.

Kaho'olawe's color is silvery gray. Their flower is the Hinahina plant. This little plant can be found amongst the rocks down by the shoreline. (the bushes growing on the beach!)

Maui is pink and their lei is the Lokelani flower. This is the only flower not indigenous to Hawai'i.

And finally the Big Island is red and our flower is the Ohia Lehua flower. The ohia lehua provides rare color on a black lava field. They are the most abundant native trees in Hawaii and are among the first new life in new lava flows!

The videos I've posted include our school chant, Level 1 performing Pupu Hinu Hinu, Level 2/3 performing Yellow Ginger Lei, and Level 4 performing Pua Mana. I had to sing extra loud since I was both directing and video taping at the same time. As you can hear, I had to learn the Hawaiian words for the songs. I'm not just mouthing "watermelon watermelon watermelon"!