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Welcome back everyone! I hope your winter break was wonderful! It sure is great to be back with your students and we are already mid way through the year. ♥️ Please mark your calendars for the upcoming Parent Teacher Conferences on January 29th and February 5th. Emails from the school are forthcoming. I have posted the January calendar in the contents section in this webpage for your convenience. Thank you for all you do for your students at Davinci Academy Flex!

If your student was absent before winter break or absent this week, our 4th grade webpage will be your guide to assist students in making up missed work. If you have any questions or concerns, please email me or reach out anytime. Thank you!

Love,

Mrs. Nichols

Writer's Workshop!

"Personal Narrative"

I am looking forward to next week as we wrap up our Personal Narrative Stories. Thank you for proof reading your students narratives and for helping them be prepared this week. I know it was a little bit challenging for all of us to get back into the swing of things. So, I will be helping students by giving them one more week to finish their final narrative. Those students who would like to share their narrative may do so next week and I am looking forward to hearing some wonderful personal narrative stories. The students have learned so much in this Writer's Workshop Unit and they are growing and learning in their writing skills.

Reader's Tasting Table

THANK you to Chiaki Steadman and Hailey Brinkerhoff for coming to share their love of books at our Reader's Tasting Table this week! Tuesday Class learned about the book by Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Wednesday's Class learned about the book Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Our next Reader's Tasting Table will be January 30th and 31st. Please encourage your student to choose a new book to read. It is ok to choose a book that is a little challenging as long as your student can comprehend what they are reading. Thank you for all your support and help with our reading goal of reading one book a month this year! Your students are having fun reading and sharing their books in class.

This is Energy Specialist Emmett Cooke popping corn for our class!

Experiments: Students will observe a system and identify where there is energy. They will then investigate several phenomena to learn more about how sound, light, heat, and electric energy is transferred. Students learn that energy is the “ability to do work” or, in other words, “the ability to make a change.” Throughout this storyline students will need to focus on what change is happening to determine how they can take data in each of their investigations. In their first investigation, students plan and carry out an investigation on the transfer of energy by investigating ice cubes. One that is on the counter and the other that is on a towel. In the second experiment, students observed how corn kernels can change by adding electricity, hot air, and microwaves.

If your student was absent this week, I have a science lab packet for them at school that explains what science experiments we did in our lab this week. Students can take the packet home and complete the science experiments and the packet and bring it back to me for credit. Please try to get the packet finished and back to me within a week. Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend! See you all next week!

Strand 4.2: ENERGY TRANSFER

Energy is present whenever there are moving objects, sound, light, or heat. The faster a given object is moving, the more energy it possesses. When objects collide, energy can be transferred from one object to another causing the objects’ motions to change. Energy can also be transferred from place to place by electrical currents, heat, sound, or light. Devices can be designed to convert energy from one form to another.

Standard(s) 4.2.3: Plan and carry out an investigation to gather evidence from observations that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electrical currents. Examples could include sound causing objects to vibrate and electric currents being used to produce motion or light. (PS3.A, PS3.B) Standard 4.2.4: Design a device that converts energy from one form to another. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution. Emphasize identifying the initial and final forms of energy.

Here is our Energy Specialist Olivia patiently waiting for heat energy to work!

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