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Aloha Titan Families,

Quarter 1 seemed to go by so quickly and the first Report Card of the Year will be going home

soon. Report Cards will go home Monday October 22nd. Please check with your child, sign and

return to Homeroom teacher the acknowledgment form.

Committee Report: Waiakea Intermediate’s PBIS Committee started Student of the Month in

September where each Homeroom selects one student who best represents the Character Value

of the month. Each month we will recognize a different value. The Character Traits are listed in

our Behavior Matrix. Take a few minutes to review the Matrix of expected behaviors with your

child. It will help us build our home/school relationship. These expected behaviors communicate

to the entire school community how we can work together to create a safe and orderly

environment. Congratulations to our Titans who earned “Character” Student of the Month.

Principal Talk Story Events

We work on instruction all the time but more attention needs to be given to building better and

stronger relationships. As a school we focus on developing an environment that is supportive of

young adolescents. We do this by continually learning about their needs and creating learning

opportunities that meet those needs both academically and socially. I would like to hear from

our families regarding what they feel the school could provide to support this unique age group.

Our School Community Council will be sponsoring two Principal Talk Story events, November

1st and February 28th in the Library starting at 5:00. These events are being offered to give

families an opportunity to meet with the Administration and share in person their thoughts.

Please join us for some refreshments and discussion around “What do our students need and

what can we do to support them?” I look forward to this opportunity to learn from our parents

and community.

November 1, 2018 February 28, 2019

Library Library

5:00 – 6:00 5:00 – 6:00

RSVP by October 26 RSVP by February 22

Respond to Parent Square RSVP Respond to Parent Square RSVP

Parent Conferences are coming up soon, November 13-20. School will be dismissed at 1:15

daily during Parent Conferences. Notices will be going home by Tuesday, October 23rd. Check

with your child. If they have Form B, conferences are optional but offered. If they have Form A,

conferences are strongly recommended. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s

Homeroom Teacher. STAR Reading and Math Reports are being sent home with your

conference letters. A good way to engage your child in conversation about school is to review

the STAR Reports with them. Students will be setting goals regarding STAR Reading and Math

assessments in Advisory.

SBG Event – Parents please assist your child in following our Halloween Costume Dress Code.

Students who are not following the dress code of the day will be asked to call home for a change

of clothes. Refusal to change and/or defiant behavior may result in disciplinary consequences.

Thank you for your assistance. Let’s work together to keep the day fun!

Halloween Dress UP – please keep in mind that there is a dress code for Halloween Costumes.

Please help us keep this a positive activity by sending your child to school with a costume that

follows guidelines found on pg. 8 of the Student Agenda Planner.

Lisa Souza, Principal

Mission

Statement

Empower the

academic and

social excellence

of every student by

helping them grow

as life-long

learners, and as

collaborative

contributors to our

community and the

world.

____________

In this issue:

-Principal’s

message

- September’s

Students of the

Month

- Classroom

Spotlight

-UPLINK Updates

-Parent tips

-Middle Years

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Address:

200 W. Puainako

St. Hilo, HI 96720

Phone:

981-7231

Website:

waiakeatitans.org

October/

November 2018

October 5- End of

First Quarter; 1st

Quarter Incentive

Activity

October 8-12- Fall

Break

October 15-

School Store

Opening

October 15-18-

Barnstorming for

6th grade science

classes

October 18-

Shadow Day

October 19- No

school- Teacher

Complex Day

October 22- Report

Cards go home

November 6-

Election Day

November 12-

Veteran’s Day

November 13-20-

Parent Teacher

Conferences

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Character Value

of the Month:

“Excellence”

“Excellence is the

general result of

always striving to

do better.”

-Pat Riley

September’s Students of the Month

September’s theme was “Character”. The following students were nominated as “Student of the Month”. Please help

us congratulate these amazing Titans!

Jayson Nakata (6), Charlie Silva (6), Wailau Visaya (6), Ashlynn Branco-Fukushima (6), Mariana Low (7), Shandon

Koochi (7), Hannah Iwahiro (7), Maya Kaneshiro (7), Elena Shibuya (8), Phoenix Farmer (8), Ava Aiona (8), Landon

Yanagisawa (8)

Classroom Spotlight

Mrs. Grabar’s 5th, 6th, and 7th period students are learning diverse ways of changing the world. One way they are doing

this is by preparing art work for the Legacy of Life, Hawaii Foundation, Art Challenge

Students heard an informational presentation from the LoL Foundation and will use the information to create

original art for submission to an art contest.

“You should become an

organ donor to save a life.”

-Tahner Fraser

“One donation could change someone’s life.”

-Shyleen Dela Cruz

“If you’re a donor, you could be the miracle that someone is

waiting for.”

-Zoey Ah Yo

UPLINK Newspaper Club

By: Lujan-Nevaeh Purdy, Kalia Kahapea, and

Meleana Gracida

Greetings from the UPLINK Newscast Club. Today

our number one priority is to explain the

activities that we pursue in newspaper.

In the newsroom we are on the hunt for stories

and interesting activities going on in UPLINK.

We interview other club leaders and observe

what they are doing.

Another thing we do is go to other rooms, so we

are able to talk with students to get their

perspective of their club. We had to learn how to

conduct interviews, so we can extract interesting

sound bites for our broadcasts.

We are learning to use technology as a main

source. For instance, we are using Ipads to

record students being interviewed by our team of

journalist. We will also be working on editing

those video clips and putting together a

podcast/news report on big UPLINK News.

Newspaper club meets once a week. Please be

on the lookout for a next big breaking news story.

Tennis Day Fun

By: Priscilla Mow, Gr.6; UPLINK Newspaper Club

On September 20, 2018 we had Coach Roman come from Oahu to teach

our P.E. class about tennis. He is from the USTA. He brought with him

loads of equipment and games. We did many activities such as Lobster

and Pearl, Around the World, four-square, a musical chairs type of game

with racquets and others. We rotated through the different stations

where we learned basic to medium level tennis skills. The Lobster and

Pearl station was a simple enough activity where one partner tosses a

ball over the tape and the other person needed to catch it between two

tennis racquets. I believe the intention of this activity was to practice the

low to high movement of the racquet as well as receiving the ball in the

correct spot of the racquet. Another fun activity was Around the World.

You could either catch and trap the ball with your hand and toss it over

the net or hit it with the racquet. After getting the ball over the net you

had to run to the other side of the court and get in line there. This station

taught me ball placement and angles as well as court movement and

striking of the ball. This station really made me tired because I had to

keep moving.

My favorite activity was the four-square. It is just like the four-square

we play in class but with a tennis ball and racquet. I really liked this

because I had some basic understanding of the concept and we got to

compete with my group members. I want to play this some more in our

next P.E. class.

I learned some basic skills like bouncing he ball with the racquet, where

to him the ball on the racquet, how to use angles to move my opponent

around and the low to high trajectory of the racquet. I got better at

controlling the ball when hitting it because the ball did not go all over

the place. I think the ball may have been less bouncy than the other balls

I have played with but that made it easier and more enjoyable. I really

appreciated having a tennis expert come to teach us some tennis skills

and fun activities. My teacher told me this was the first time he had

come to our school so we were really lucky to have him. I also heard

that he donated a lot of equipment for us to continue to use and practice

with. I look forward to continuing to build my tennis skills and possibly

play it into the future.

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