Parents accompany their keiki on the annual ‘Back To School Day’ at the KS Kapālama Middle School campus. On two separate days half of the students attended their regular classes with one of their parents or family members so that the adults can experience what a typical day is like for their keiki.

Parents and students listen intently as a teacher discusses the day’s lesson.

In science class, mothers and daughters use a balance to find the mass of a cube as part of an exercise to the find the cube’s density.

In another science class the parents and keiki team up produce chemical reactions.

KS post-high counselor Che Sabol and daughter Amaia look over her social studies research on Hawaiian traditions, practices and beliefs.

Parents are interviewed on camera as part of an family oral history assignment.

Art teacher Palani Williams gets to know his students’ parents.

Parents take pictures of their keiki dancing in hula class.

Teacher Mia-Amor Porreca encourages parents and students to strum away in ‘ukulele class.

Orchestra students show their parents how to play musical instruments.

Students and parents learn how ancient Hawaiians made stone tools.

Parents and keiki compete to see who has quicker reflexes in P.E. class.