May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii

Journee and classmates at May Day
Journee's class doing their Pokeman dance
Journee's class walking back to chairs after May Day dance
2nd graders dancing -- purple girl is Journee's friend Katelyn
6th grade conch shell blowers -- the did awesome

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii

The first Lei Day was held May 1, 1928, and everyone in Honolulu was encouraged to wear a lei or many.  Festivities were held in downtown with hula, music, lei making demonstrations and exhibits and lei making contests.

At Journee's school, the keiki (children) celebrated multi-cultural awareness (which here is japanese, korean, samoan, american, hawaiian, portuguese, chinese, vietnamese).  The kids did an awesome job.  Journee's class did a Pokeman dance and wore oversized aloha shirts wrapped around them and tied with a sash to represent the Japanese kimono.  

I will miss the May Day celebrations.