The tears are still drying.  I'm going to miss you guys.

The objective for the rest of the year:

• Finish or remediate anything you may have missed in the last two weeks.
• If there were special circumstances involved with assignments outside of those two weeks, and you feel you deserve to be able to still turn in that assignment, please contact me and we can discuss it.
• If I have not seen your "Soundtrack of My Life" project in advisory yet, please e-mail it to me.
• For those of you who still have yet to turn in a PE log or any independent project pieces (final products, reflections, research logs, etc.) please do so before the above deadline.  You can e-mail them or drop them off at school.

For those of you that have yet to schedule your student led conference, please visit the shared Google Doc ASAP and sign up for a space.

E-mail me or call me today with any questions or concerns.  I'll be available on and off all day.

Finish strong!  The end is in sight!

Hello Advisees.  I've sent you a link to a shared Google Doc containing scheduling blocks for your student led conference next week.  Please go to that document and pick a 45 minute block.

You should be prepared to go over your updated portfolio and discuss your schedule for next year.  Your schedule should already be done, as we did it in advisory earlier this quarter.  If it is not, please see me and/or Ms. Weaver ASAP.

Please let me know if you have any questions about your conference or your exhibition night.  Aloha.

This is it.

In light of our massive time constraints, lets do this:

Today's objective:

• E-mail me your blog link.  Not just your plankton lab, but the home page address.  This way, I can check your final plankton entry, as well as have your entire blogs to read over and over again over the summer!  Yes!
• I'm going to do my best to grade all of your plankton entries today so we can have the whole day in class on Wednesday to present your ID manuals.
• If you have any late work you would like to send to me, please write "Late work" then the title of the assignment in the subject line.

See you all tomorrow.

Office hours: 9-11 and 1-3

Here is the message I received from Penny.  It pretty much explains it all.  Sounds like fun and I'm really bummed I'm missing it.  Please tell Penny I'm sorry about not being there and thank her for me.

"Aloha Jason;
Just a reminder for the students to remember to wear shorts on friday, preferably cloths they (and their parents) won't mind getting muddy.  The stains aren't likely to come out.  Tabis or a junk pair of sneakers or slippers are also a good idea.  The students will be turning the wet mud with shovels and stomping in the mud to lomi the soil.  The stomping is usually done barefoot but the shovel work is easier with something on your feet if you aren't used to it. 
 
The moon we will be planting on is Kaloakukahi. 
 
There are several sources that students can look to for information about that day, including the internet (Hawaiian moon calendar), David Malo, Fornander, Kepelino's Works of the People of Old, Handy and Handy's Native Planters in Old Hawaii, and other sources. 
 
The link you sent from one of the students is great.  I look forward to seeing more!
 
see you on friday
a hui hou
Penny"

Crunch time.

Please have your ID manuals ready for presentation at the start of class on Wednesday, June 1.  We will present them to the class, then we'll have a look at our blogs for the final time!  Sad, I know.

I am unavailable until Monday.  Self direction rules!