06/12/2012-6/15/2012

   This week, we learned a lot. I learned about Haloa, mele kino, pi'apa, na hleu, and na ninau 'umi. On the first and second day we learned about Haloa. On the first day the kumus made pa'i 'ai to teach us about how we're all connected. Haloa was the first born hawaiian. We read more about him on the second day of summer school. Haloa died when he was born and so his mom buried him. Where he was buried, a kalo plant grew in his place. That day we learned Mele Kino, a childish song that taught us our body parts in 'olelo Hawai'i. It was like head, shoulders, knees, and toes. It went from our po'o all the way to our manamana wawae. It was a fun song to learn. Throughout this week, we learned na ninau 'umi. Ten questions asking who we are, where we're from, our about our parents, and our birthdays. I learned how to ask and answer in 'olelo Hawai'i. This week we also focused on pi'apa and the rules. There are thirteen letters in the hawaiian alphabet. Five vowels: a, e, i, o, u. And eight constonants: h, k, l, m, n, p, w, and the 'okina. ʻOkinas are used to make breaks in between vowels. This is also a rule, 'okinas can only be used between vowels, not constonants. Constonants can' be next to eachother either. Thats called a constonant cluster. Another rule is that a word can't end with a constonant. There is even at least one vowel in every word. Another thing we learned about this weekend was about Pepeke Aike He, a general statement. It stated that something or someone is a, are a, or am a. One thing to remember is that there's no hawaiian word for is, are, or am. That just messes everything up because when your trynna translate a sentence your english mind is going crazy and trynna mess you up. So, it took me a while to remember that there are no words for is, are, or, am. We learned three papanis this week, too. Ppanis are pronouns. Au, oe, and 'o ia. Those are the three papanis we learned this week. Au means I. Oe means you. And 'o ia mean him/her/. This took forever for me to memorize. So like we had two get into two lines in the middle of the room like everyday and had to keep saying it over and over again. This helped. Throughout this week, we even learned hot to count. Na helu. We learned how to count up to one hundred so far. It's pretty easy now cause we gotta practice like everyday. At first it was super hard. I was like "what language is this?!?" I knew hot to count up to ten already but learning up to one hundred was really hard. But when we started doing all worksheets and stuff for it, I got it down. So now it's easier. So this week was fun, but we gotta learn so much like oh my gosh. Okay, but I'm looking forward to next week.