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🤞To celebrate international Dragon Day on Jan. 16, we will be wearing our Dragon swag to school all next week!Â
💻Testing is this Thursday!Â
Please send your student with a small snack and well rested.Â
Have your student there on time.
 I will do everything I can to help keep a positive environment and encourage students to do their best.
 Thank you for all you do continually, for your student! 🤩
Hello Parents and Students,
Week #15! We are half way through the school year already! It is flying by!Â
*Please check your emails often, in case of a snow day or late start day!
 Just wanted to let you know that parent teacher conference sign ups are coming soon, so look for an email from the school! I look forward to meeting with each of you to talk about all the great things our students are learning in our hybrid program. Please feel free to bring your student with you! I always love it when they come to parent teacher conference. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Our classroom is a great place to learn and make friends. Please encourage your student to new friends and I encourage parents to set up new friend play dates. We have some incredible little people at Davinci Academy.
If your student was absent, please see the past weeks lessons to make up missing work. This webpage will be helpful, I hope, as you work with your students at home to get caught up.
 Thank you for choosing Davinci Academy Flex! We love our Davinci Families! 💚
Love,Â
Mrs. NicholsÂ
"Crystal Sound Bath Relaxation"Â
This week we invited Erin Fonoti (Olivia's Mom) to come and lead our classes in a Sound Bath experience. WE had SO much fun and we learned that sound energy is transferred through vibration. Students learned how to breathe when overwhelmed and how to calm their bodies when they feel excited or afraid. Here are a few pictures (left)Â of our 4th grade students enjoying the beautiful sounds that come from the crystal bowls. Thanks Erin! We hope you can come again, the students loved it!!Â
Writers Workshop
Thank you to all students who shared their Personal Narrative Stories this week! You did a great job and should be very proud of your writing work. I will keep all writing in a portfolio and students will go home with their writing at the end of the school year.
We started a new unit called Imaginative Writing this week! Our next writing workshop project will be writing a creative imaginative story!Â
Science
In this lesson, students explore how heat is another form of energy that can make things go. In the activity, Heat Spinner, students first make a paper Heat Spinner and observe how air can create movement. Then, students use their Heat Spinners to experiment with a heat source (an incandescent bulb) and discover how heat energy can make the spinner move in different ways. You can use a hot plate too, but be careful to not let the spinner fall on to the hot plate!
Steam Engines!Â
Imagine you’re living in the 1800s and can ride trains for the first time. How would you feel about traveling this new way? How do you think your life might change? See the links below for more amazing science information about heat energy and steam engines.
How can heat be started with two sticks? Click the link to find out!
Heron (right), the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water was placed over a heat source. As the water boiled, steam rose into the pipes and into the hollow sphere. The steam escaped from two bent outlet tubes on the ball, resulting in rotation of the ball. The principle he used in his design is similar to that of today's jet propulsion. Heron did not consider this invention being useful for everyday applications: he considered his aeolipile invention as a novelty, a remarkable toy.Â
Inventor Heron, of Alexandria!
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