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LIVING O KA ʻĀINA
Chanting at Home
Raising our keiki in a world where chanting is normal, creates comfortability within each keiki, establishing their self-identity as a Hawaiian. Chanting is our way of documenting data, important events, and recognizing environmental entities that comprise the Hawaiian exsistence.
Sharing weather observations
My keiki and I discuss throughout the day, the different weather phenomenon that we come to experience. They summarize it using the kilo observation books, and practice sharing data as a presentation. My daughterʻs kilo book develops her descriptive writing. My sonʻs kilo book supports number sense.
Data discussion and analysis
After collecting a month worth of weather data, we tally up the weather occurrences, create monthly weather statements, that describe the month prevailing weather patterns, and have healthy weather discussion and predictions.
Time seen through fruiting trees
Observing the growth stages of fruiting trees at home and in your community is a visual way for keiki and ʻohana to understand time. Identify when the avocado and lychee are flowering, and when they are fruiting. Point them out as you drive around your community. Collect data over months. then share out your finding.
Learning schedule at a glance
This video is the larger video with the above individual clips embedded. It was created for Kamehameha Schools Professional Development on Early Childhood Learning.