Greetings Families,

"Ramadan Mubarak" to our Muslim friends and family! If you celebrate Ramadan, we would love to hear from you to learn more about how your family celebrates. In the meantime, click here to learn a little more about this special month!

We also want to celebrate all students for another incredible Exhibition experience! Presenters were poised, confident, and joyful as they shared their learning with the hundreds of visitors who entered our campus this week. We appreciate our students and teachers for their hard work on such a successful event! If you haven't had a moment to celebrate with your student yet, we encourage you to take the time to do so!

Additionally, All 3 Da Vinci Connect Odyssey of the Mind teams placed first in the state championship and are advancing to the world competition! The worldwide organization challenges students of all ages in completely student led engineering, creative problem-solving, writing and the arts, including a performance piece. All three of our teams beat out big-name school competitors who invest in professional coaching, hand-picked teams through auditions, and ample funding. DV kids did it with friendship and the fearlessness that comes with the Habits of Heart and Mind. We are so proud of our students and their families! If you would like to support the 19 champions who are headed to the World Championships in May, you can donate HERE! Be sure to specify "Odyssey of the Mind" so that funds are applied directly to this fundraising effort.

Finally, mandatory State Testing for all 3rd-8th grade students will take place beginning the week of April 25. Please look out for a special blog post/newsletter from Kaitlin the week we return from Spring break with additional details. While we don't put any performance pressure on our students regarding this experience, we understand that some families may want to spend some time familiarizing themselves with the CAASPP tests. You can browse some resources HERE, including links to practice tests.

We hope you enjoy a very relaxing Spring Break!

Take Good Care,

Kaitlin and Tami

Our neighbors at Del Aire Park are hosting a fantastic Spring Event for the community, and wanted to make sure our students are invited! Join us for a glow in the dark egg hunt, outdoor skating, games, and more! Check out THIS flyer for more info.

The MS Dance committee has been hard at work, planning and preparing to put on the most amazing, memorable dance ever for our middle school students! And now we need our wonderful MS families’ help! Please click on the sign-up genius link HERE or below to donate the requested items and/or to volunteer to help the night of the event! Thank you in advance for all the support: volunteering your time and supplies will make this dance for our middle schoolers a huge success!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084eafaa28a57-middle 

Have you completed your RSVP to attend the dance? Click HERE! 

What's your favorite song? Click Here or point your cellphone camera at the QR code:

Click HERE to fill-out the Participation Invitation Survey! 

For questions, please email Jahmal, our F.A.N. events coordinator at jdurham@davincischools.org

Black Box Theater @ 201 N. Douglas

 ATTENTION, ATTENTION!

Sign-up to participate and details are linked HERE and below!

The stage is being prepped and we are eager to get the planning started with you and your talented students. We need more students and families to join our planning committee! Please e-mail Jahmal at jdurham@davincischools.org to help! Participation Sign-Up:

Thank you to Darlene for working on creating a beautiful yearbook to memorialize this school year! Please visit THIS FLYER for information on pricing, how to order, and how to customize your child's yearbook by adding personalized pages. In anticipation for the upcoming Annual Talent Showcase - this year we're also offering an opportunity for families to submit one photo of your child's creativity!

We'd love to get a sneak peek or photo highlighting their creativity or talent. Once you've established an account inside the yearbook ordering portal click or select 'share photos', upload your photo, once you're inside the 'Select a Section' area choose 'Talent Show' as your folder to submit your photo. The deadline to submit your photo is April 22. We hope you will join us!

Earth Day is approaching, and we are happy to introduce a new lunch-time activity called the Garden Club! We are looking forward to feeding our 'Future Food Growers' appetites by sharing a few techniques at starting a food garden at home. 

Want to lend a hand or two? Join us in helping to facilitate a Seeding Activity- at one of our upcoming lunch-time dates listed in Here in our Sign-Up Genius LINK!

For questions contact Jahmal at jdurham@davincischools.org

Don't forget that all families can take advantage of free breakfast and lunch on campus! Find weekly menus HERE

Thank you to Darlene for working on creating a beautiful yearbook to memorialize this school year! Please visit THIS FLYER for information on pricing, how to order, and how to customize your child's yearbook by adding personalized pages!

Live art ZOOM Art with Mr. Mason. Every Wednesday 2-3pm starting Sept. 1st.

https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/NTQ5ODk5MTQzNzZa

Remember new art videos are uploaded twice a week on Tuesday & Friday.

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Our amazing and talented teacher Julia will offer a read aloud activity every weekday (M-F) from 3:00-3:30! Reading selections will include classic picture books, guaranteed to bring joy to all our TK-8^th grade students. Feel free to join her at her zoom link for this wonderful way to end a school day!

The Family Action Network would you like to invite you, as our very special guests, to participate in the Read Aloud activity with Juila on Wednesdays! Whether you are a family elder, grandparent, great aunt, or uncle, we would love to share this unique experience with you. We've been looking for more ways to see your faces and hear your voices, and this is a perfect way to do both! We welcome book suggestions from your personal library, that would be fitting to our audience of Tk-8^th grade students! 

Please join us by clicking HERE to Sign-Up!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Jahmal at- jdurham@davincischools.org

A group of Connect students who have organized a small branch of the Variety SoCal charitable organization are hosting a Talent Show to fundraise for children in need! Check out their flyer HERE. This would be a great opportunity to try on any talents you're considering for the DV Connect Talent Showcase later in May!

·     Use this code (w3yytj2) to access all content all year!

·     Check out this year’s supplemental curriculum, login details and more using this link

Use this this link to sign up for April Office Hours

Use this link or QR Code to sign up!

5/4 – Ikigai: (生き甲斐, 'a reason for being') is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living. We will delve into this concept together and see what comes up.