The Hawaiian Collection
The Hawaiian Collection is located in the Pauahi Room. It is a beautiful room, and used for a variety of purposes such as teacher meetings, testing, and small group projects. In closer observation, the room is used too often, so the books in the Pauahi Room is inaccessible to students because the room was locked. If we are going to have a school with WCHCBE, the Hawaiian resources need to be accessible all the time. The quick fix is to move the books. The HAWAIIAN EASY BOOKS is now located where children can see them all the time...right in front of our circulation desk! The Pauahi Room can still be used for meetings, etc., but it is the books that the children need. We have yet need to see where we can relocate the Hawaiian Fiction and Non-Fiction books.
Students also wondered if Hawaiian Literature can be accessed on EPIC, an app and website full of electronic resources. To our wonderful surprise, EPIC includes a wide variety of Hawaiian literature for children, both fiction and non-fiction books. The next challenge is to have students choose “GENIUS BAR” topics related to the Hawaiian culture. This boost the circulation statistics of Hawaiian books, and the curiosity in Hawaiian literature increased. Students began sharing everything Hawaiian. They made movies about hula, chanting and mele. They read Hawaiian books, and retold the story by making puppet shows and one group of 13 students even worked together to do a play for their peers. You can find the full length video of the play by clicking here. |
WCHCBE
I'm still learning how to implement lessons that meets WCHCBE, and at the same time, encouraging students to also use more 'olelo around the library, and have students continue to create more experiences with Hawaiian literature, as well as read about other indigenous cultures around the world. There is so much to do. I can only keep trying.