Sixteen Kahaluu Elementary students returned to Oahu last week after performing in ukulele concerts at Disneyland with King Intermediate‘s Symphonic Band.

But the Kahaluu students also made a visit to the nearby Paul Revere Elementary School in Anaheim, where local students were grieving after a neighborhood shooting. According to a write-up, disadvantaged Latinos make up 85 percent of Revere’s student body.

The Kahaluu students taught their Revere counterparts Hawaiian games and how to play the ukulele and dance hula. They also shared with them dried squid and poi. 

After, the Hawaii and California students performed a hula together to Sam Kaahanui’s “Children of Hawaii.”

Anaheim students watch as Kahaluu Elementary students play their ukulele. (Photo courtesy of Hawaii Department of Education Windward District Office.)

— Alia Wong