KANUIKAPONO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
HONUA (Grades 4th,5th & 6th) YEAR 1 CURRICULUM OVERVIEW







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Subject/
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Hawaiian Values
Language Arts
Writing
Social Studies
Kukulu Kumu Hana
Fine Arts
Math
Science
Outdoor Lab / Projects
Ola Kino
Enrichment Friday
Aug/Sept
Aloha & Kuleana
Plot, conventions
setting and characters
Editing
Migration Myths
Vocabulary
Pre- Migration Pacific
Islands
Class Nouns
School Protocol
Alphabet
Beginning Acting-
Emotions
4th-
5th-Place Value
6th-Facots, Multiples
Ecosystems
Data Collection
Habitat-Coops
Safety with Tools
Planning a coop
Stretching Protocols
Non-locomotor skills
Homaikawa'a
Data, Drama, Music
October
Mahalo Pila
Plot analysis
Conflict Resolution
Theme
Punctuation
Letters from a Canoe
Oral Report
Voyaging in the Pacific
Introductions
Kauai Oli
Numbers, Requests
Acting-
Characterization
4th-
5th-Decimals
6th-Factors, Multiples
Interdependence
Creating experiments
Food Chain
Habitat-Coops
Food Chain- Chickens
Building
Physical Fitness
Locomotor Skills
Fitness Log
Homaikawa'a
Data, Drama, Music
November
Kahiau & Pono
Literary Elements
Westing Game
Fact vs Opinion  C&E
Responding to texts
Summarizing
Details
Early Hawaii Culture
Early HI Economy
Opinions, Calendar
Analyzing Mele
Hawaiian Music
History of Theater
4th-
5th-Decimals
6th-Rational Numbers
Cycles of Matter
Behavior of Organisms
Organism-Chicken
Data Collection
Observing Coops
Total Body Health
Nutrition
Homaikawa'a
Data, Drama, Music
Dec./ Jan
Lokahi
Westing Game
Summarizing
Style, Purpose, Infer
Book Report
Note-taking, Visual Aid
Main Idea
Changes in Hawaiian
History
Expressing Ideas
Calendar
Haku Mele, Ipu Heke
Short Play Production
4th-
5th-Dividing Decimals
6th-2-D Geometry
Fossils
Cycles of Matter
Organism-Chicken
Data Interpretation
Sustainability
Healthy Behaviors
Health Goals
Nutrition
Homaikawa'a
Data, Drama, Music





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Jan/Feb
Lokomaika'I
Research skills
Graphic and text structures, theme
Research Plan
Evaluate Sources
Punctuation
Beginning Civilization
non-verbal comm.
Hula
Crafts of Hula
Hula Crafts
Mele
4th-
5th-Data, Ratios
6th-Fractions
Cells

Organism-Fish
Organism- Fish
Propagation
Tobacco Use
Team Games
Ike 'Aina
Kalalea Uka
History of Ko'olau
March
Kuha'o
Research
Meaning, Paraphrase
Organization Pattern
Organizing facts
Research Paper
tone, quoting, bibliography
Fertile Crescent
Ancient Egypt
Read Simple Stories
Hula
Haku Simple Hula
Hawaiian Artists
Haku Hula
4th-
5th-Geometry
6th-2-D Measure.
Human Body
Systems
Organism-Fish
Organism-Fish
Aquaculture
Alcohol & Drug Use
Team games
Ike 'Aina
Ko'olau
Picture Books
April
Na'au pono
Vocabulary
Idioms, hyperbole
Personification
Creative Writing
Dialect, clarity
Editing, feedback
Ancient Egypt
Ancient India
Hula
Retell Info
Assess Hula
Mele and Hula
Crafts
4th-
5th-Fractions
6th-Probability
Science Projects
Aquaculture
Organism- Fish
Aquaculture
Body Systems Ike 'Aina
Ko'olau
Service Learning
May/June
Ho'ike
Stylistic Elements
Simile, Metaphor
Poetry
Poetry, Clarity
Dialect, Oral message
Ancient China
Oral Report or Poem
Hula
Ho'ike
Ho'ike
Marketing Ho'ike
4th-
5th-Measurement
6th-Statistics
Heredity and
Genetics
Pollination Sexual Health
Ike 'Aina
Ko'olau
Ho'ike