Reflecfion

             This week was really interesting, weʻve done many different activities, and a lot of olelo. Some activities weʻve done is going in a circle and speaking to each other about the ninau questions. We had also learned some time questions and how to speak of times. We had learned many ways of the pepeke structure.
         The Ninau questions are the easiest, its very easy to answer and understand. When we talk to each other we learn about our families, and about our life, our name, where you live, what school you go to and much more.
         Weʻve learned a lot of different ways to the pepeke structure. We had learned the squid or heʻe technique with the poʻo, piko, and ʻawe. The heʻe technique is very usefull when your stuck on a question and you canʻt answer it, if you think about the pepeke structure you it all comes back to you.

         Weʻve learned different types of sentence structure like pepeke aʻano. Pepeke aʻano is like describing the noun. Pepeke painu is another type the has an action in the start of the sentence. It starts off the sentence.

            

During the first week of summer school in the class of Kumu Kalani, we've worked on many things and achieved many accomplishments. We've learned sentence structure, vocabulary and some songs/oli. We've also learned about our Hawaiian ancestery.
In our sentence structure, we've learned all kine different types of sentences like pepeke aike 'o, pepeke aike he, pepeke aike a'ano, and lots more. For an example of pepeke aike a'ano, it would be Nani ka pua. Thats just one example through the many we've learned.
We've learned a lot of vocabulary, to much for us in the "DA" group to remember. The vocabulary is not that hard though, it sounds like the english word just put into an hawaiian way. One example would be T.V, in hawaiian it would be Kiwi. It matches. Other vocabulary words would be like Popoki, which is cat, or 'ilio which is dog. Or verbs such as holoholo to cruise, or hiamoe to sleep.
We've learned many songs during the school year such as head knees and toes, but in hawaiian way, we learned like 3 different versus. We've also learned this song to remember our numbers from 1-10, and this interesting song to remember the months of the year in hawaiian. It's pretty difficult.
So far we've learned 1 oli, and 1 prayer. The oli is and famous one but very difficult to stay on pitch with. The oli is super hard for me but not for much other students. I have a really hard time to not only stay on pitch, but to pronunciate the words correctly. I thought that was hard to learn pssshhhh, the pule is way harder! The words are so hard to keep up with, when your actually by someone who knows the pule well, i'm pretty much just mouthing what their saying, so yeah i kinda got to work on the songs and prayers.
We've learned about our ancestery to, and how pele's little sister took her lover from her. That's cold. How Pele raged at her and the sister and her lover ran away. We've also learned about the Kalo being our kupuna and how we respect it and love it. They also showed us how to pound the kalo to make the poi. They also talked about the connection we all had to it, and how we listen to it and we learn from it.

Kupa'a