Elementary learners to carry out Hawaiian chant at ‘Imiloa Astronomy Heart
HILO, Hawaii, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — How did historic Hawaiians navigate the night time sky? Several dozen elementary learners from St. Joseph College will find the answer when they discipline excursion to ‘Imiloa Astronomy Centre on Tuesday, Jan. 24 to celebrate College Selection 7 days.
NSCW 2023 (PRNewsfoto/Nationwide University Alternative Week)
The 9:30 a.m.-noon outing aims to engage students in Hawaii’s deep history of exploration and draw awareness to the school’s cultural research system. Learners will greet the workers at the astronomy middle with a specific Hawaiian chant. Penned by the principal of St. Joseph School, the chant is one particular of lots of methods that pupils participate in the wealthy traditions of their household.
The field vacation is planned to coincide with the celebration of National College Preference Week (Jan. 22-28, 2023), which will function tens of hundreds of school selection celebrations throughout all 50 states. In addition to the subject journey, St. Joseph Faculty will rejoice university preference with an open up residence for possible households on the adhering to weekend.
“‘A’ole pau ka ‘ike i ka hālau hoʻokahi,’ or ‘Not all awareness is acquired at 1 spot,'” quoted Maile Kipapa, principal at St. Joseph Faculty. “The students of St. Joseph Faculty will be using a subject trip to ʻImiloa Astronomy Center to examine the part our island plays in the self-control of astronomy. Our learners are continually mastering and to limit their discovering to a classroom defies logic.”
“As a university of option, we motivate our pupils to be hungry,” mentioned Kipapa. “Not a physical hunger, fairly an mental hunger for knowledge and expertise from all accessible means on and off campus to offer a simple, serious-lifestyle finding out ecosystem, ranging from a broad expanse of traditional and non-standard learning. And as this sort of, our pupils deepen their feeling of identification to position and acquire a perception of belonging and appreciation for their residence that, in essence, is a classroom. By integrating a robust multifaceted palette of discovering and methodologies, our college students are given the prospect to make much more knowledgeable long run choices on their academic paths.”
St. Joseph Faculty serves pupils in grades pre-K by way of 12 in Hilo and seeks to build lives of provider in the spirit of the Hawaiian custom of Aloha.
‘Imiloa Astronomy Heart is situated at 600 Imiloa Location.
Nationwide University Selection Week (NSCW) informs, inspires, and empowers parents to uncover the K-12 education and learning choices available for their kids, including conventional general public, constitution, magnet, online, non-public, and residence education. Each January, tens of hundreds of educational institutions, companies, and people today program unique gatherings and functions to shine a good highlight on powerful instruction selections in their communities. The 7 days is a venture of the nonpartisan, nonpolitical Countrywide Faculty Option Recognition Foundation.
Jennifer Jones makes a delivery during the Cooper Equipment Mixed Doubles Curling Classic on Dec. 10, 2021 at the Brant Curling Club in Brantford, Ont.Photo by Brian Thompson /Post,edia Network files
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At home, the days are spent home-schooling young children, who have been cooped up inside for the last month.
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Outside the house, it’s like picking your way through a minefield, in order to do something as simple as going to the store.
A drive in the car, or a walk around the block, are highlights of the day.
How does that sound for people who are slated to represent Canada in the Olympics in three weeks?
“I’m a home-schooling, Olympic-training mom right now,” Canadian women’s curling skip Jennifer Jones said.
“But it’s good. You’re never gonna complain cause you’re going to the Olympics and how fortunate are we to have that opportunity. But you never thought this would be how you’d train to go to the Olympics. We haven’t played a competitive game since we won the Olympic trials.”
Jones, 47, will get together with teammates Kaitlyn Lawes, Jocelyn Peterman, Dawn McEwen and Lisa Weagle on Saturday in Ontario to start a bubbled training camp ahead of their appearance at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. The team is due to fly out of Toronto on Feb. 3 and the women’s curling Olympic competition begins on Feb. 10.
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The last month has looked like anything but Olympic training.
“My poor kids,” Jones said of daughters Isabella, 9, and Skyla, 5.
“They haven’t seen anybody since Dec. 17, when they were done school. Even when school is done here, they won’t go back. (Husband Brent Laing) is amazing, so I’ve got that, but we can’t even get anyone to babysit or help with that because we’re not seeing anybody.”
It’s the same situation at the McEwen house in Winnipeg, where Dawn and her husband Mike are dealing with a daughter (Vienna) who is currently being held out of Grade 1, not seeing any friends, getting her schooling from her parents.
“A lot of Olympian moms are doing bigger sacrifices to compete than they have ever been asked to do before,” Mike McEwen said.
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Jones and Laing live in Horseshoe Valley, Ont., just north of Barrie. Curling clubs across Ontario are closed because of COVID-19 omicron outbreak, but an exception was made for athletes training for the Olympics. So she’s had to drive an hour each way each day in order to get on the ice at a club that was willing to open just for her and select teammates.
Because most of her teammates live in different provinces, they aren’t able to get together as a group to train until later this week.
Jones is looking at the positives of that situation.
“The one nice thing is it’s pretty focused,” she said. “We’re gonna be immersed in training right before the Olympics because we can’t see anybody else except each other.
“ I feel like we’ve come up with a really good training plan and we’re really happy with it and we’re all pretty excited.”
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The Jones team, which represents the St. Vital Curling Club in Winnipeg, will open the Olympic tournament on Feb. 10 with a game against South Korea.
SCOTTIES UP IN AIR
While the Jones team, the Brad Gushue foursome out of Newfoundland and the Rachel Homan/John Morris mixed doubles team are all moving into training bubbles this week ahead of the Olympics, the rest of Canada’s curlers are waiting on pins and needles to see if the national championships can be played in the coming weeks and months.
The Scotties Tournament of Hearts is slated to start Jan. 28 in Thunder Bay, Ont., though Curling Canada is still working with Ontario Health to see if it can even happen amid current restrictions.
Curling Canada is working to establish a bubble-type setting for the Canadian women’s championship, much like it did for several big events in Calgary last year.
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That would suggest there will be no fans at Fort William Gardens, curlers will be confined to their hotel rooms and the competition facility, and there will be rigorous testing for all involved.
Talks are proceeding this week, though the clock is clearly ticking, with the event slated to begin at the end of next week.
MISKEW MOVES UP
With Homan selected to represent Canada in mixed doubles curling at the Olympics, her four-player team has had to shuffle the deck ahead of the Scotties.
Emma Miskew, Homan’s long-time vice-skip, will move up and handle the skipping duties in Thunder Bay, while fifth player Allison Flaxey comes in at second and Sarah Wilkes moves from second to third.
The only player staying in her usual position is lead Joanne Courtney.
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After the Scotties, Courtney will move into a different role, providing colour commentary during CBC’s coverage of the Olympics. She’ll be working with 1998 Olympic silver medallist Mike Harris and play-by-play man Bruce Rainnie.
ARSENAULT STILL AT IT
If the Scotties are pulled off, there will be an expanded 18-team field, with three wild card teams and no play-in game.
Mary-Anne Arsenault, 53, didn’t need to wait for the field expansion to get in.
A five-time Canadian champion with the Colleen Jones team out of Halifax, Arsenault has retired to the British Columbia interior, but hasn’t slowed down at all in terms of curling.
Arsenault won the B.C. women’s provincial title over a week ago, skipping a team that already included three world champions.
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The foursome, with third Jeanna Schraeder, second Sasha Carter and lead Renee Simons, once played with skip Kelly Scott and won two Canadian titles (2006 and 2007) and a world championship (2007).
“It’s pretty exciting going back with this experienced team,” Arsenault said from her home in Lake Country, B.C.
“When I was first moving out to B.C., the rumour mill started churning and I got a number of e-mails, phone calls, looking for me to be on various teams. This was the only one that really caught my eye.
“I was contemplating hanging up the shoes, but when this opportunity presented itself I thought ‘OK, I’m gonna keep playing.’”
“It feels pretty great to win. You can’t ask for much more. The girls said afterward that they never thought they’d be going back to another Scotties, but here we are.”
This will be Scotties appearance No. 15 for Arsenault, though her first representing a province other than Nova Scotia.
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FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – Gooseberry Falls is a popular Minnesota state park. But it’s also dangerous. A quick google search brings up article after article of hikers falling to their death.
Beau Lofgren is one of those people who fell off over the waters edge while trying to save a child– and today he lives to tell the tale.
Six months ago while on a school field trip — the Hawley Elementary teacher’s life changed forever.
“The next thing I knew is we, we both made a 30 foot ball down the set of waterfalls,” Lofgren said.
He broke 4 vertebrae and his tailbone, while trying to help a young student who had waded to close to the edge. Lofgren spent 4 days in the hospital, months in a brace, and even longer relearning how to walk. He still isn’t 100{e4f787673fbda589a16c4acddca5ba6fa1cbf0bc0eb53f36e5f8309f6ee846cf}. The physical part of recovery was hard. But, he says, being back at school has helped him recover, mentally.
”It was like instant adrenaline knowing that okay, these are the kids I get to work with. And that really helped me here to get better here so I could be here today,” he told his students before dismissing them for lunch.
Lofgren teaches his 6th graders all kinds of serious life lessons, from student’s losing their little brothers– to his accident.
He stands at the front of the room, brace in hand, showing it off to his students, “And this was my brace honest and my brace that I thought you know, and it’s so funny because this was such a part of my life for you know, three months.”
He says his students are like medicine him– and says that talking to his students is not only helping him recover, but it’s helping his students be vulnerable about their struggles, too.
The accident has given him a new outlook on life. This Thanksgiving, he says he’s more grateful than ever.
“And I’m just thankful to to experience all that life has to offer everyday living and Hawley. I just I can’t say that enough,” Lofgren said.
But most of all, he’s just glad he’s still here for his family.
“I’m thankful for the opportunities I have to teach, to coach, to be a husband, to be a father,” he explained.
And they’re grateful he’s still here, too.
“I love when he drives us to school in the morning — spending that time before school. Coming home after school just seeing him really makes me happy,” his son, Jonathan said.
Lofgren wanted to made sure I told you just how thankful he is for his church, the medical staff at his hospital, and everyone who’s played a part in his recovery.
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