HCAP WEEKLY February 20, 2023

Made with Love from Head Start
Kumuhonua Appreciates Aloha Harvest
The Hā Initiative’s Kidney Experiment


Made with Love from Head Start

As a display of their love on Valentine’s Day, the keiki at Kipapa Head Start created handprint flowers and Valentine’s Day cards for their families. The keiki developed their fine motor and color recognition skills while painting recycled water bottles that were used as vases. The handprint flowers were assembled using recycled straws for stems. Sarai and Wakana were excited to share their beautifully made gifts with their parents!

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Kumuhonua Appreciates Aloha Harvest

The staff and residents of Kumuhonua Transitional Living Center (KTLC) give a big mahalo to all of the hard workers at Aloha Harvest. HCAP appreciates having a longstanding partnership with Aloha Harvest and applauds their employees who graciously and faithfully deliver boxes of food every week to help feed those who live at the shelter. Some residents of Kumuhonua do not have any type of income which makes it difficult for them to get the nourishment that they need. Davilyn, the program manager at KTLC, shares why she is thankful for the collaboration between Aloha Harvest and Kumuhonua, “It warms our hearts to see that we can all work together to help the most vulnerable members of our community.”

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The Hā Initiative’s Kidney Experiment

The Ha Initiative: Creative STEM After-School Program is currently working on a Health Module, with this month’s topic being the human body. Students have been learning about the parts of the body and how their organs function. Recently, the students at our Lincoln STEM Exploration Center have been learning about how the kidneys work. The kidneys play an important role in the body; they filter out the waste and extra water from our blood and create urine out of that waste. On average the kidneys filter through approximately 150 quarts of blood per day. Since the average human has about five to six quarts of blood, the kidneys filter through the body’s blood about 30 times per day!

To demonstrate how the kidneys work, the classroom set up an interactive demonstration. Students added water and red food coloring into a small cup to act as the “blood” and mixed in cracked pepper and black sparkles as the waste. Students then prepared a large container with a coffee filter secured to the opening with a rubber band. They slowly poured their “blood” through the filter to see how the coffee filter caught the pepper and sprinkles while allowing the rest of the liquid to pass through.

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