Island School

2019-2020

Kealahele Ma Kaua'i

Ms. Becky designed a place-based, year long project to deepen her students' sense of community, place, Hawaiian values and home. Kumu Kauka and one of her parents, Nathaniel Evslin (Isaac), assisted with a name, Kealahele Ma Kauai, or to travel the pathway of Kauai. Students, families and Ms. Becky fundraised heavily for this project.

Completed Excursions

Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (completed bolus dissections to deepen our learning of how marine debris affects our island)
Kipu Ranch Adventures (completed first ever excursion with students to deepen our learning of Kipu, our nearest mountain range to school)
Just Live community building activities (completed first ever ropes course with young students to deepen our sense of community)
Beach clean up with Surfrider Kauai (completed first partnership for elementary students at our school site)
Camp Nau'e (completed to deepen our sense of community and place on the North Shore, some students first visit to this moku)

Unfulfilled Excursions due to Covid 19 outbreak

Stargazing on the west side (scheduled and collaborated with Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai's west side with a parent liason, unable to fulfill due to pandemic outbreak just before our excursion)
Bike Path/Paddling canoe in Wailua area
Malama Huleia
Lawai International Center and Kukuiolono Golf Course
Lo'i visit (location(s) to be decided)
Salt Pond

Beach Clean Up with

Surfrider Kaua'i

Sustainable Coastlines

Guest Speakers

Citizen Science

Weighing marine debris

Students took action with a beach clean up and furthered their action by writing letters to state representatives urging bills to protect our island from plastic pollution. Ms. Becky handed the letters off to Surfrider Kaua'i volunteers who took them to Washington D.C. We received a supportive letter back from Senator Ed Case.

Makahiki Games, Hawaiian cultural games, are shared through partnership with Kamehameha Schools Kaua'i, during a weeklong Learning Voyage.

Kamehameha Schools Kaua'i

Erin Cobb Adams

Makahiki Games

Launching with ATVs

Learning about Mt. Haupu with Kumu Kauka

Taking notes

A Closer Look

Binoculars to observe marine birds

Geography to connect the larger picture

Bolus dissection

Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge excursion to connect with education department about marine birds, do a bolus dissection, and have a deeper understanding of how marine debris is affecting our island.

Ropes Course to strengthen our sense of community as a classroom of learners who lean on one another for support, accept differences, and lift each other up.

Leading us in opening circle

Supporting one another

Ascending through classroom cheering below

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