Well, did you know May Day is also Lei Day in Hawaii?

It is an important day to celebrate the aloha spirit, kindness, and connection.

We visited Schorr Elementary School for a special celebration.

-Aloha!

And now let's begin the show.

(Jill Munemitsu) May Day is a special day in Hawaii.

It's also known as Lei Day, and it started in the 1920s.

And it is a celebration of leis, the making of leis, the giving of leis, and sharing that aloha spirit with others.

-Let's welcome UNLV's Ewalu Club for their special performance.

[performing] -In addition to our students here at Schorr, I also contacted Liberty High School, their Polynesian Club and UNLV's Ewalu Club, which is their Polynesian club there.

And I just said, Would you like to come and help celebrate this day with our students?

And they were more than happy to do so.

When I started teaching here, I knew that I wanted to bring my Hawaiian culture to school in some way.

I just wanted to instill the aloha spirit to teach 700 kids about our culture and give them an opportunity that they may not have had outside of school.

(Londyn) I've been dancing for five years.

I like Tahesian because it's just so many moves, and I like it.

(Roman) Dance has brought to me joy and culture, learning different things about the islands and everything.

(Kesi) I like cheering on for people.

And they kind of, if you, like, cheer back for them, they cheer back for you.

-You know, hopefully they learned a little bit about Hawaii and May Day and, you know, just to treat each other with kindness and to remember to enjoy life every day.

(Grayden) I do hula with my mom.

I actually performed, like, three times.

It's from Hawaii and it's also cultural.

(Elsi) I think it's good to teach other people about our culture so, like, they know how to dance and then they can see what we do with dancing.

-One of the best parts about this, today's presentation, was that it was so engaging.

And I just kept looking in the crowd, and I just kept seeing smiling faces.

And that brought me so much joy.

It actually brought me to tears midway, and I was just so proud of, you know, bringing this together and to be able to share it with our class, you know, with our school.

It just brought so much joy to me and hopefully everyone else.

-Say aloha!

-Aloha!

-So much fun.

Thank you so much for the invitation to Lei Day.