"Ding...Ding...Ding!" Lunch has started and the kids that need to buy school lunch are ready to grab their plates. Are you wondering why the big kids are working and not eating? Well, this job is called “Cafe Duty." If it's a new word for you, it means the lunch helpers.

Do you think Cafe Duty is a hard and tiring? It sure is! That is because I have experienced doing this job and it was so hard! I even saw the other cafeteria workers sweating-they work so hard for our school!

You will finally get to know what café monitors actually do. Cafe Monitors have several jobs such as wiping tables, serving food, collecting trash, and mainly washing their hands all the time. Do you think that these jobs are quite difficult to do? Don't feel too bad-the cafe monitors get rewarded after their job! 

                       

Next, I am going to tell you the rules for cafe duty. These rules would probably make you a perfect and responsible cafe monitor. The first rule is to keep yourself in good hygiene by washing your hands. The next rule is to keep your hairnets on your head no matter what. You would need to keep your hairnets on because nobody would like munching on food with your hair in it! Last but not least, respect the monitors around you.

In conclusion, being a cafe monitor may be quite hard but there are rewards. 

By: Skye 

                                   

Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

Hi! My name is Dhaydren and I am here to talk to you about lunch.

Name Tags
When you buy lunch you will need a name tag. The lunch ladies will need to scan your name tag. If you forget your name tag, you will need to write your name on a price of tape and go in the back of you line. I would never want to forget my tag. You will need to be responsible!

Lunch
For lunch you usually have a main food, drink, fruits, and veggies. Example: Pizza, carrots, and milk. There are 3 different types of milk: Chocolate milk, 1 percent milk, and fat free milk. I usually get 1 percent milk. Most people get chocolate milk.

Behavior
If you play with you food, you will get sent to the principal’s office. After you eat, you need to put your head down. If you need to go to the bathroom or drink water, you will need to raise your hand until the lunch ladies come.

Lunch monitors
Lunch monitors are kids who help out in the cafeteria. They help pass out food and also wipe the tables. This is only for grades 4 through 6.There is a rotation that it goes through.

Overall, you will need to be very responsible in the cafeteria. You will need to be responsible because if you are being bad, there are consequences.

Thank you for reading my blog about lunch!

Written by Dhaydren 

                                 
Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

6th grade

When most little kids’ think of 6th grade, they think it is really easy because they think it must be easy being the smartest. 

6th graders are usually showing off on how good they are. Well, if you think that, just know that being a 6th grader isn't easy!

If you don’t finish your homework, that gives you a check. A check is not good because checks are given when the student is bad or if they don’t complete assignments. 

5 checks = 1 strike.  As trike is worse than a check! You can't participate in the end of the quarter celebrations and that is just embarrassing!

Once you don’t finish one thing, you won’t finish the other things--then your work will keep piling up more and more!

6th grade can be very complicated….so you  5th graders out there…watch out because being a 6th grader isn't as easy as you think!

In 6th grade we have to switch classes on Mondays. We learn Different subjects such as Health, P.E. Career and Technical Education, Art, and Science. It's really fun!

For the students who can keep up with everything, they show the IB leaner profile Balanced because they can keep up. Some can even keep up with extra clubs and extracurricular activities.

Here are some facts about me: I love chocolate because it’s so good! I am a 6th grade student who is able to keep up with all my work. I am smart and special!

Written by Joshua 

                                     
Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

"Sit down please." says the CPOs on duty.

CPO stands for Campus Patrol Officer. We go around the campus looking and telling students to be safe and follow rules.

There is a captain, luitenent, a sergeant, and privates. 
The captain is in charge of basically everything. They take attendance in the morning and he/she also walks around the campus making sure that the CPO is doing things right and to making sure that everything is safe. 

The captain wears a white helmet and holds a clip board just in case he or she needs to write anything down. They always carry the keys to the CPO locker room and they have a whistle.
The luitenent fills in for the captain when he or she doesn't report for duty. The luitenent has stations to go to. They only go to “Parking" and "F Building" in an interchanging way.

The sergeant fills in for the captain if the captain and the luitenent doesn't report for duty. The Sargent has the same jobs as the luitenent, but they are opposite. If the luitenent has "Parking" then the Sargent has “F building". If the luitenent has "F building" then the sergeant has “Parking". The sergeant wears a white helmet, has a whistle, and sometimes holds a clip board and the keys to the locker room. 

Then there are the privates. They go to the stations that they are told to go, but they CAN change at any time. They wear yellow helmets.

There are stations that everyone has to report to:

-Parking
-F building
-E building
-G building
-Courtyard
-Cafeteria

All of these stations require shoes because you constantly need to walk in and around you station. Parking is they only station that doesn't require walking because you open the car doors for the kids to get out. 
CPOs can report students of they are acting up. The captain writes a referral and gives it to the staff member in charge of this program. 

There are 4 squads of CPOs. Each squad had 1 captain, 1 luitenent, and 1 sergeant. Also each squad has around 10 privates. Each week a different squad reports for duty in number order. First is squad 1, then squad 2 and so on. After squad 4, then squad one reports for duty.

Being a CPO is hard work. You have to be one time every time it is your turn to patrol the campus. If you are absent or leave, then things get hectic. We have to substitute your place with another CPO. We HAVE to report for duty because the safety of our school depends on it!

By Jewel 

                                   
Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

Hello! 

I wanted to ask you a question. Have you ever heard about checks and strikes? If you didn't, then you should read this; especially you fifth graders. You better watch out because checks & strikes will be in sixth grade. For more information read on!

Tips: Checks & Strikes: Watch Out!

-Try your best to not get checks

-Try not to get 5 checks or it’s a strike for you.

-Strikes are dangerous. You will not be participating in the 1st, 2nd, 3^rd, and 4th quarter celebration.

-Strikes can haunt you for the whole quarter.

-Our teacher gives us another day to do our catch up work.

-If you have strikes, then sorry! You have to stay in for study hall while people without strikes go out and have fun!

-Do extra Teenbiz or IXL and then you can erase some of your checks.

-Checks and strikes are mostly for students who don't do their classwork, homework, or it is for their behavior.

-If you don't have any bad behavior & you turn in your classwork and homework, then you will be fine for the whole quarter.

Well, Mahalo for your attention and see you next time!

THE AUTHOR: ERIKA!

Hi, my name is Erika! I love reading and have 1 sibling. His name is Kevin. I just love Kevin and take care of him really well. I play with him and help him with his homework (HW). He is also helpful to me too!

Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

Teenbiz

Teenbiz

Have you ever wondered what Teenbiz is and how to do it? If you have, I will tell you all about it.

Teenbiz is a website that our classroom goes on daily. This website really helps you in your reading. You can log down the articles you read in your Reading log. First, you have to login. 

Next, you have to go to your mailbox or go to the 'Search' area and look for an article or search for one. Or, Mrs. Matsuura sometimes assigns us an article relating to something we are learning in class. That is so easy. Then, once you pick an article to work on, read the article. This is so important to help you in other parts. There is also a vocabulary part on the bottom where you can see the words that were used in the text. 

After you read the article COMPLETELY, go to the activity area. In this section, you answer questions that are multiple choice. This makes it a bit easier. You can use the article to help answer the questions. That is why it should be read completely. Our teacher always tells us to make sure our answer is 88% or higher. Finally, the last thing to do is our thought question. To me, this is a bit hard to do. It will be easy as long as you read the article completely. 

This section can make us become THINKERS because we have to really think about our work and make sure it is complete. This helps us get a good grade. Now you know about Teenbiz and how to do it.

I'll now tell you about another thing about Teenbiz-the points and achievements. You get points when you get a right answer or when you get a good grade on your thought question. You also get points for other things like top scorer or achievements. 

Achievements can be earned by doing many things on Teenbiz. Finally, you should check the scoreboard somewhere on the bottom right because you never know if you are the daily top scorer, weekly top scorer, or the highest scoring class in your whole school. You now know about the points and achievements.

Thank you for reading my blog about Teenbiz!

Blurb about Charlemagne 
I love eating popcorn. I also love the Hunger games series. Finally, I love reading mystery books.

                                     
Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

To be honest, it is hard to be a Computer Teacher! 

Hey I'm Janus Gapusan. I'm here on the scoop to tell you about Mr. Sakamoto, our school’s go-to guy for computer needs! 

Here is a little information about Mr. Sakamoto:

What got you into computers?

“I was always into computer and technology.”

How hard is it to be a computer teacher?

"It’s not hard to be a computer teacher if you enjoy what you’re doing. It is hard to maintain the equipment and all the computers in the school. Since the school is getting older, the equipment is getting older and harder to use.”

What Is the hardest part of the job?

“There is not enough time to get the job done and to fix everything!”

Do you work on anything else besides computers?

“Yes, I also repair medical equipment.”

Lastly, what did you do before getting this job here?

"I worked as a technology teacher in Kapolei High School for ten years." 

Wow-that’s amazing!

This is your reporter, Janus Gapusan.

Blurb about me

Hi I’m Janus. I’m 11 years old and my favorite color is purple. My favorite sports are basketball and football.

                                    
Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

Homework!

What do you think about your child's homework?

Do you think it's good for them? Or Bad?
    

In my opinion, I think homework can be a good thing and a bad thing. 

Why? Well it can be good because, we are learning at home so we can have help from our parents and then we can completely memorize what we are learning in class, because of the extra practice. Also, school doesn't last too long, so with all that extra time at home, why waste it? We could all do a bit of reading or math just so we completely know how to do it. 
    

BUT--it isn't good to have homework that you haven't learned or don't know how to do--that's obviously not fair. Also, too much homework would make it impossible to have any time for ourselves. We need to be BALANCED. If it's the kids fault and he or she did not act responsibly and use their time wisely, then the child should be staying in and doing catch up work. That’s obvious.
    

Having homework helps us practice skills such as:

Responsibility- We need to be responsible and use our time wisely in order to finish our homework on time and still have family time.

Integrity- Kids need integrity, because if they didn't do it they need to be honest and not make up a fake excuse such as: “My cousins were over.” and  then my teacher finds out that they live on the mainland.

Balance- We needs balanced because we need to be able to finish our homework, but still have time for fun.

Now do you see why homework is important? I hope so because I know that I do!!!

BLURB: MY NAME IS NICOLE. I AM 11 YEARS OLD AND I GO TO KEONEULA. MY MOST FAVORITE HOBBY IS ART. MY BEST FRIENDS ARE CASSIE, MADDIE, AND JOSHUA. I LOVE SCHOOL AND THIS IS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME!!!

                                    
Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

Roxaboxen

Hey Keone’ula Cubs! 

If you didn't know, September’s Principal’s Book of the Month was Roxaboxen! 

Roxaboxen is about a rocky hill that a bunch of children loved to play on.

They used their imaginations, cooperated together, and made their own town, Roxaboxen. They created their own money, houses, cars, horses, and even a jail! My class did response to literature to the book. 

My class liked the book so much we created our own Roxaboxen!!!! We went outside and made our own house, we made cars, and we made a pretend cemetery. We had so much fun! 

So, if you haven't read the book Roxaboxen, I recommend you go read it!

My name is Samantha and I am Keone’ula School President! I love the color blue and I love pizza! I love to go swimming and I love to go hiking! My favorite subject in school is science!

Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class