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Back to School 2017 (10)
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Winter Crafts & Holiday Parade 2016 (26)
As we enter the 2016 holiday season, we once again celebrate the joy of learning while we share our talents, time and treasure with those in our school and community. Through winter craft activities, students share in the fun and joy of the holidays with homemade crafts and gifts to share with others. We share our music and joy with the community through the annual Kailua Kona Christmas parade. -
Spirit Week & Halloween at Innovations 2016 (28)
Spirit Week is an annual event at Innovations. Students select themes for each day of the week and everyone participates - yes, even teachers and staff members to dress in theme-related topics. A week of fun and costumes continues our emphasis on learning together in an environment where it's safe to take risks, learn alongside others and have fun in the learning process. -
New School Year 2016 Innovations Style (16)
Innovations welcomed a new school year with traditional team building activities centered around this year's theme of Navigation: Na Kalai Ola - Life Navigators. Team building activities established a culture of risk taking, working together to achieve a common goal and having fun while learning together. -
Sharing Thru Project Based Learning (18)
As each grade level focuses on a topic of study selected by students, they integrate skills in reading, writing and math into the content area of social studies and science. We culminate the year with a sharing of the projects students have been involved in with an authentic audience of peers, community members, parents, teachers and family. -
Sister School Seiko's Annual Visit (28)
Students from Innovations' sister school in Tokushima, Japan made their annual visit for a week of cultural exchange, curriculum and sight-seeing. Students spent the week in Innovations' classrooms and participated in a cultural field trip to Pu'uhonua O Honaunau as both student groups explored the curriculum topic of "Peace". -
Middle School Students Visit the Hokule'a (19)
Middle school students kicked off their year-long study on navigation and adventure with a visit to the Hawaiian voyaging canoe, the Hokule'a. Students experienced small group discussion, lecture and exploration of this amazing voyaging canoe, her crew and the mission of the Hokule'a. -
Innovations Breaks Ground (32)
Students and dignitaries from USDA, IPCS Foundation and Governing Boards, Isemoto Contractors and project manager John Bertsch gathered to celebrate the start of construction on Innovations campus expansion. Guided by Hawaiian Studies Kumu Maile Tavares, students entered the new site with an Oli and offered ho'okupu as symbols of the appreciation, gratitude and respect we give to the opportunity for expanding our campus and continuing the mission of educating our community's keiki. -
Japan Exchange 2012 (98)
11 students traveled to Tokushima Japan to participate in Innovations' sister school exchange partnership with Seiko Gakuen Primary School. Students engaged in academic classes and field trips with Seiko School peers for a week, lived with a Japanese host family for 6 nights and spent a week sightseeing in Osaka, Nara, Hiroshima and Miyajima with the expertise of local residents and founders of Innovations-Seiko School Sister Program, Kevin and Shizuka Miller. -
4th and 5th Grade "Hip Hop Scientists" (33)
An integration of performing arts (music and drama) with the academic areas of science, social studies and health - an original play written by Innovations' Performing Arts Teacher Andrea Lindborg and the 4th and 5th grade students demonstrates their learning through the arts. -
Pu'u Wa'a Dryland Ecosystem Project (24)
Through a partnership with The Kohala Center's HI-MOES program, IPCS middle school students learned about and cared for Hawai'i's rare and endangered dryland forest ecosystem. During the overnight experience, students gained a cultural understanding, through kumu-led mo'olelo, for how the landforms acquired their names. The overall purpose of the trip was to allow students to conduct hands-on science investigations that related to their own inquiry-based questions pertaining to dryland forest habitat. Additionally, students documented plants' base diameter, height, and overall health to add to a growing database of native outplantings at Pu'u Wa'a' Wa'a. -
Sharing Art With The Community (20)
Art teacher Jenny Crusat facilitated a sharing of Innovations' student art pieces at the Childrens' Art Showcase at the King Kamehameha Beach Hotel. -
Water Cycle Style (33)
2nd and 3rd graders presented "WaterCycle Style"for an audience of school and community audience members. With catchy, modern tunes and words specific to their study of the Water Cycle, students demonstrated their learning in dance, song and dramatization. -
Who Let The Birds Out: Kindergarten-1st Grade Performance (26)
Kindergarten and first graders at Innovations are well into their study of "Birds" as their final interdisciplinary unit of study. Through the story of their class pet, Uncle Feathers, escaping from the classroom and seeking help from feathered friends, students demonstrated their learning of birds, flight and community in their performing arts exhibit.