Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 2006 — Genealogy courses [ARTICLE]

Genealogy courses

ihe fnends ot lolam Palaee is offering a pair of "Digging for Your Roots" genealogy classes on Thursdays in October. The first of the two-day courses will be held on Oct. 5 and 12, and the second on Oct. 19 and 26. The popular classes, taught by Fran McFarland, offer a hands-on approach to learning genealogy research. The course includes a discussion on the cultural differences between Hawaiian and Western genealogical standard practices, as well as visits to the Hawai'i State Archives, State Library, First Circuit Court and Bureau of Conveyances. Classes meet in the Kana'ina Building on the palaee grounds. The cost is $75 and includes instruction, syllabus and workbook. Students must sign up for both days for eaeh workshop. To See BRIEFS on page IG

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CūntinuEd fram page Ū5 register, eall 522-0822 or email fj mvana @j uno.com. 'm Hr Keiki o ka 'Āina Family Learning Centers will be accepting appheations for its free, home-based preschool program unīil mid-October. The program, funded by the Native Hawaiian Education Association, is designed to prepare Native Hawaiian keiki for elementary school. It was created in response to research that has shown that Native Hawaiian ehikken are less ready for kindergarten than children of other ethnicities due to a laek of access to early childhood educational programs. Called Accelerated Interactive Montessori Home Instruction (AIM HI), the program has an experimental eunieulum that blends the Montessori teaching approach with the tradihonal Hawaiian education

method of "ma ka hana ka 'ike," or "one learns by participating." Homebased, with weekly hour-and-a-half sessions between parents, their keiki and a teacher, the program is available to Native Hawaiian cliildren between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half years old. The sessions and materials are free. The following is a hst of the sites that are accepting enrollment, along with their orientation and weekly session dates. Apphcations will be accepted up unīil the day of orientation. • Kūhiō Elementary, Mō'ih'ih. Orientation: Oct. 16, 9 a.m.; weekly sessions: Mondays, 9 a.m. •'Ewa Elementary. Orientation: Oct. 17, 8:30 a.m.; weekly sessions: Tuesdays, 8:30 a.m. • Kamehameha Schools' Community Learning Center at Nānākuh. Orientation: Oct. 18, 9 a.m.; weekly sessions: Wednesdays, 9 a.m. • Ka Ho'oilina Na Kūhiō, Waimānalo. Orientation: Oct. 19, 9 a.m.; weekly sessions: Thursdays, 9 a.m. For more information, eall 843-2502. M