HCAP WEEKLY February 27, 2023

Family Engagement with Head Start

Head Start & Early Head Start families engaged in various activities this week to help promote their keiki’s development, fine motor, cognition, logic, and reasoning skills. They enjoyed creating colorful mailboxes made from recycled materials, cutting up shapes, and reading a story together. Also, our positive male role models continued to volunteer and engage with their keiki within our classrooms!

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Two New Community Services Specialists Join Windward Team

The Windward District Service Center welcomed two new community services specialists. Kaycie Yamasaki and Sheena Paaoao have joined the team with the purpose to compassionately serve the community, and have already hit the ground running with intensive job training. 

Kaycie Yamasaki is a recent graduate of The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and hopes to use her extensive research skills to discover new resources to better serve the community. Sheena Paaoao is a recent graduate of Windward Community College with a focus in social work. Sheena was a peer mentor of the popular Trio Program and is hoping to bring the same drive to help steer the low-income community into self-sufficiency. 

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The Hā Initiative Explores the Human Body

Hā Initiative students at our STEM Exploration Centers have been learning about the body and anatomy this month as part of our Health Science Module. To help learn about the many different and complex parts of the body, students got to ‘build their own life sized body.’ Each group started out by tracing the perimeter of a classmate onto a large sheet of paper, which would serve as the base for this project.

In order to fill the base with organs, bones, and muscles, each group of students got three packets titled: “read about it,” “write about it,” and “color it.” The groups first read about each of the major organs, what their functions are, and how they are protected by our bones and muscles. Next, on a cut out picture of each body part, the students wrote own what they learned about each part from the reading. Last, students cut out and colored a picture of each body part. Once the written part and the colored part were complete, students matched them up, and stapled the cut outs to make a flip book. Each flipbook was then placed on the base in its correct location.

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