Hualalai Academy holds farmers market Hualalai Academy holds farmers market ADVERTISING Hualalai Academy recently held its semimonthly farmers market. Steve Velonza, school garden coordinator and teacher, encourages students, families and staff members to bring in their surplus homegrown produce to
Hualalai Academy holds farmers market
Hualalai Academy recently held its semimonthly farmers market.
Steve Velonza, school garden coordinator and teacher, encourages students, families and staff members to bring in their surplus homegrown produce to add to what the children grow in the school gardens.
Produce is offered on a donation basis with all proceeds going back into the gardening program. A grant from the Kohala Center also provides funding support for the school’s garden program and those of other participating K-12 schools in order to improve the quality of food and agriculture sciences education in Hawaii.
Hualalai Academy is a designated “School of the Future” by the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and the Hawaii Community Foundation for its commitment to collaborative, project-based learning. Working in the school garden supports these ideals.
For more information on Hualalai Academy, contact Elizabeth Sharma at 326-9866 or visit hualalai.org.
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Innovations’ students publish artwork
You’ve heard of published authors, well Innovations Public Charter School has published artists. The following students’ artwork was selected for publication through a website that celebrates children’s art. The amazing pieces of art will be published online at celebratingart.com, as well as in a hardcover book of published student work.
Students produced their pieces of art in their resource class under the direction of Innovations art instructor Jenny Crusat.
The young artists are second-graders Marina Nitta and Brady Thoman; third-grader Kai Iverson; fourth-graders Lincoln Davis, Anna Schroedel and Helen Wagner; and fifth-grader Kiyono McDonald.
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Caring for animals
Nancy Bloomfield, program manager of Therapeutic Horsemanship of Hawaii Kona Branch, recently took time off from her regular job as a Department of Education physical therapist to bring the program’s two newly acquired miniature horses to Kealakehe Elementary School for a visit.
She spent the morning sharing the therapy horses with preschoolers and special needs students. The purpose of her visit was to show the students how to care for animals and to spread the joy to those students who are not able to participate in a mounted program. The students had an opportunity to groom, pet and lead the horses during their visit.
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