maika'i

In Hawaiian, "Maika'i" means "Excellence."

And at Pearlridge Elementary school, they have something called the Maika'i Award-which teachers and students pick TWO students from each class per quarter to receive. Students are usually chosen for not only progress in schoolwork, but also in their attitude and behavior representing the school's values...which embarrassingly, I can't quite remember this minute.

Anyway, this quarter, Kela was honored with the Maika'i Award for her class!

Hooray for Kela!

During the assembly, we got to go up on stage with Kela (and Anna and Jolee in tow) in front of the whole school as they honored all the students in the Kindergarten classes!

You can't see it in this picture, but there's RED DIRT everywhere around the school campus. Jolee was so busy making mud pies in the red dirt that by the time we got on stage...her white shirt was no longer very white.

*sigh*