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• 00:42 NBFA AT ITS BEST

  Serving our Scholars a Hot Lunch

  Uploaded Apr 02, 2022 by Mariana Figueroa
• 00:16 iNaturalist Observation: Snake Sighting!

  Hello 6H!
  
  I hope everyone is enjoying the activities from the choice boards and recording their work digitally or in their notebooks. Please contact me if you have any questions.
  
  Today while searching for organisms to post on iNaturalist, we came across a snake! Harlow, Clementine, Mrs. Hudson, and I came across this Garter snake on our way home from a bike ride and decided to try and get a video.
  
  What is a Garter snake?
  
  These skinny snakes can grow up to about 130 cm long, but are more often much smaller, averaging about 55 cm long. Common garter snakes come in a wide range of colors, including black, brown, grey, green or red, with three stripes down the back and side that are either yellow, brown, green, blue, orange, grey or white. They are very fast hunters and excellent swimmers, which helps them to catch frogs, small fish, tadpoles, small birds, rodents and earthworms. Their saliva is slightly toxic, but their bite is harmless to humans. Common garter snakes have very interesting breeding habits. After hibernating during winter, the males come out first and wait for the females to emerge. Some males are able to make themselves smell like females and they lure the other males away before quickly returning so that they can be the first to mate. There are often many more males than females which results in mating balls, where the female has over 10 males swarming all over her in a big ball of snakes. The females don’t lay eggs but give birth to up to 40 live young. Common garter snakes are found throughout North America, from southern Alaska and Canada down to parts of Mexico. They live in a range of habitats, but prefer to live near water.
  
  Have a great rest of the week!
  
  Mr. Hudson

  Uploaded Apr 22, 2020
• 00:17 NEW Science Choice Board Activity - Water Fireworks - April 19, 2020

  Harlow and I decided to do this experiment!
  
  Materials:
  Water
  Oil
  Food Coloring (Any color of your choosing)
  16 oz clear glass
  Another 16 oz clear glass
  A Fork
  
  Instructions:
  1. Fill the tall glass almost to the top with room-temperature water.
  2. Pour 2 tablespoons of oil into the other glass.
  3. Add 2 drops of food coloring to the glass with the oil.
  4. Stir the oil into the food coloring using a fork.
  5. Pour the oil and coloring mixture into the tall glass.
  Now watch! The food coloring will slowly sink in the glass,...
  
  How it Works:
  If you put oil and water in a container, the water molecules will bunch up together and the oil molecules will bunch up together, forming two distinct layers. To get around the propensity of oil and water molecules to only pal around with each other, you'll have to make an emulsion, dispersing one of the liquids in the other. Food coloring dissolves in water, but not in oil. So when you pour in your food coloring/oil mixture the oil will float at the top of the water because it is less dense, and the food coloring will begin to dissolve once they sink through the oil and into the water.
  
  Are you a Rockstar?
  Try doing it without the oil and observe and record how the results are different.
  Try using a larger glass, does it change the results?

  Uploaded Apr 17, 2020
• 1:42 Today's Morning Message: Middle School Principal Mrs. Turner
  Uploaded Mar 30, 2020
• 3:38 Welcome to New Beginnings Family Academy Featured

  Enroll Your Child Today! NBFA will welcome new students in Pre-K ages 3 & 4 through 6th grade.
  
  You can find all the information you need about enrollment on our website at https://www.nbfacademy.org/apps/pages/apply

  Uploaded Jun 12, 2024
• 1:09 Happy New Year from Mrs. Swagerty

  New Year's Greeting from Mrs. Swagerty

  Uploaded Jan 04, 2021
• 00:56 What Just Happened? A Deep Sea NOAA Video

  This video, collected during Dive 16 of the expedition, highlights a benthic fish dwelling in a burrow, snatching a large midwater fish with quill worms as onlookers. This remarkable video footage gives us the rare opportunity to document a predation event in the deep sea, while highlighting the trophic links between animals that live in the water column with those that live on the seafloor.
  
  If your interested in a career path visit: http://www.omao.noaa.gov
  
  More Videos:
  https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1806/logs/photolog/welcome.html#

  Uploaded May 15, 2020
• 00:17 Tadpole City Update - May 20

  
  Good morning 6H,
  
  The tadpoles are really growing fast! Here is an update on their current size and life cycle. This week try to explore Microsoft Teams, as we will be transitioning into it next week. We have a Zoom meeting on Friday, and every Monday after that until the school year ends. If you have not yet signed up for iNaturalist, please sign up and send me your username to get into the contest! You can see what everyone else is posting as well. Please email me your work and take pictures of your notebooks to send. I also need everyone's updated street address, so please email it to [email protected].
  
  Teams Tutorial Link:
  https://www.nbfacademy.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1692246&type=d&pREC_ID=1940433
  Have a great rest of the week,
  
  Mr. Hudson

  Uploaded May 20, 2020
• 1:14 Women's History Month at NBFA

  We celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month with teachers and staff.

  Uploaded Mar 11, 2019
• 2:05 Today's Morning Message: Elementary School Principal Mrs. Fearon
  Uploaded Mar 29, 2020