May Day is an annual tradition for the past decade at Parker School. Students this year worked under the direction and tutelage of kumu hula Liana Aveiro, who taught Hawaiian storytelling, dance, Hawaiian language and culture to the lower school
May Day is an annual tradition for the past decade at Parker School. Students this year worked under the direction and tutelage of kumu hula Liana Aveiro, who taught Hawaiian storytelling, dance, Hawaiian language and culture to the lower school students. The keiki were introduced to traditional Hawaiian musical instruments. Each year, a new theme is incorporated into the lower school program. This year, the themes were “Hoolike ka manao I Wailohia” (Make your minds alike at Wailohia) and “He lei poina ole” (A lei never forgotten is the beloved child).
The upper and middle schools were involved in traditional makahiki games held after the program, as well as Hawaiian food preparation and serving, and various cultural stations held around the lower school campus. The games included Hawaiian arm and leg wrestling, rock “bowling,” spear-throwing and tug-o-war. Stations included poi pounding, lei-making, slack key guitar lessons, face painting and fake tattooing, petroglyph tracing, and Hawaiian navigation and knot-making.
