Intervention

 For intervention we change classrooms. In each classroom kids learn diffrent things and read diffrent books to fit their skill level. The advanced group reads JR Great Books. Ask your child what they are doing in Intervention and what they are learning. Please encourage your student to read at home. Thank you!

                                                                                                                    Shae 

Reading Storys

Reading is when we all come get together and get a book we read as a group. We also have different storys about different things like: people with cp, fictional storys, Realistic fiction, and last but not least nonfiction. we have alot of storys to read about. We sometimes have good storys and bad storys most of the time we have good ones.



By:William

The Field Trip

A couple days ago we went to the science center. First we went to the Da Vince exhibit and learned that Da Vince wrote a 29 on the back of the Mona Lisa. After that we went to a movie about hubble and galaxies. Me and my friend Ryan made up a galaxy named Brainious because one of the galaxies looked like a brain. Next my group went to the animal exhibit. We saw tons of animals and even saw one shedding. Then we went to the water area and learned that we can use water to generate energy. Finally we went to the stars area and looked at facts about stars and planets, my favorite planet is saturn. At the end we watched a movie about stars and constellations.
By Brandon

Basketball tournement here at lakewood

 Norwalk basketball team had a basaketball tournement here at lakewood.On the team there is Shae,Abby,Rachel,Trinity,Abbie,Bailey,Kennedi,Joplyn,and Kennedy.The first two games we won.The  second to last game was CRAZY !!!!  It was time for lunch and we were in Liz Elliotts office while she went to go get us something to eat .We saw someone coming so we all went to the other side of the room where they cant see us we heard a noise and Abby asked Bailey did you toot I said no it was the door Liz came in with Mcdonalds Abby ate half my fries! Rachel and Abbie W. were laughting. It was time to go play ball so we went back to the gym. We got to foul a lot refs were letting us.Shae hit her head against the wood, Abby talked a girl out. Bailey fouled out. Kennedy was tired,and Rachel hated the person she had to gaurd.The next game my mom got a picture of Abby standing next to a really tiny person. Both games were tiring to play in but fun.We lost two games ,but we came in 4th out of 12 teams.After that there was a party at my house only some of the team came.


-Bailey

Movie Night

      On the 27th the school was going to watch  a movie. The movie was after school in he cafiteria scence the cafiteria has a huge projector showing the movie is easy. The only sad thing about the hole thing is that it costs 25 warrior way tickets .the movie that was showing is called the Blind Side thats a good movie so it was worth it.

By:Tyson

Nathan's Birthday

Nathan  is in Mrs.Nichols class. His birthday was January 13th. His mom, his baby brother and his little sister came to the classroom. His little baby brother's name is Eli, and his little sister's name is Chloe. They brought yummy cupcakes and Chloe walked in saying: We got cupcakes for Nathan. Nate must have been having fun because he was smiling almost the whole time. Everybody was having a fun time and it was great.

           By: Katie

Starlab

We do many speical things in fifth grade like field trips and assemblies,but my favorite is starlab.In starlab we learn about stars and constellations in a blow up lab lie a big bouncey house. When we go inside its pich black so we bring flash lights then we turn them off, and turn the projector on then we can see stars that you can't see in Iowa and learn about those stars.              



                                                                            By: Drake

blog about art!

Today i'm writing about art. We are making a stain glass window, with Mr. johnson.The teacher has a dog named Reeses. He has a dog named Reeses. Me , Ethan, Rachel, Logan, Kennedy, Sophie, and Emma came after school to help finish it. It shows Christina Taylor Greene in heaven dancing in mud puddles and playing baseball. She LOVED to dance She was a ballerina. It was a bad day for everyone. She was born on 9-11 and died 12-20-11.

Written by: Nate

The Science Center

Last Tuesday the whole fifth grade went to the Science Center.  The first thing that we did was go to the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit.  It was really fun there.  Then we went to the IMAX and saw a movie about the hubble telescope.  The IMAX was really cool and it felt like I was laying down but I wasn't.  After the IMAX we went to the other exhibits, then we saw another movie about the stars and constelaltions.  The Science Center was really fun.

                             by Max

Field Trip

     On January 18, 2011 5th graders went to the Science Center for a field trip. We went to the DaVinci exhibit and learned a lot and had a lot of fun. Did you know that the Mona Lisa took 16 years to make and still wasn't finished?!? Did you know that the Last Supper took 3 years to make? We also went to IMAX theater and saw Hubble Telescope. It was so cool seeing clouds where stars are born and seeing pictures of a star dieing (exploding at 50,000 mph) and turning into a black hole. We also went to Iowa Skys and learned about the constellations and what constellations we would see at 8.00 p.m. (There was no stars out because it was to cloudy) We had a amazing time!!

                                                        By: Gigi

The Rock Wall in P.E.

In P.E. we are doing rock climbing.  It is very fun.  The wall is 8 feet tall, so we climb across.  It is 40 feet across.  That is pretty far for us to climb.  We have a partner that spots use incase we fall.  We also have mats at the bottom.  Rock climbing is one of my favorite things to do.                                                      By-  Allie

Smoothies

           As you can see in the picture some of the students have mustaches. Those mustaches are made from  an orange smoothies. We got those smoothies because we did so well on our reading test, on that test we averaged 95%. That is our best average score ever. Also since we did well we get to have brownies. Everyweek if we get 85% or above we get to have another treat. We work as hard as possible to get a good average on our tests.
                       Kennedy

These are a few pictures of our gym, library, and classroom.  Enjoy!!  ... See my Tabblo>

Silent Ball

 Every Wednsday on early out we have Dare. Only last week we did something special, we played silent ball. A few weeks ago we played in our classroom and the 2 winners moved onto the finals. What was so cool about that is the winner was someone in our own classroom.. Brandon!  So congradulations to him.

                      -Abby

Voice Thread of Field Trip

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Mrs.Nichols Intervention

         In Mrs. Nichols Intervention, students work on reading comprehension. You read Escape and
Crime Fighter cards. These cards have small stories on them with drawings or real pictures about the stories
main idea. When you read up to 25 stories you get to play with the ipod touches for your whole intervention. Intervention starts at 8:15 not long after you come in your own classroom in the morning at 7:50.                             Sophie

The pitcher

There was a pitcher that came to our school who played for the pirates.When he was eight years old he still played  for the pirates.He was retiring his old number 52.He graduated from norwalk as a teenager.

Ethan

Parent Portal

       Dear Parents,
 Parent Portal is a place were you guys can come and check out our grades and late assingments.   We also usualy have our assingments up. So if your child is sick you can look up your childs homework. It also shows your  late  fees. http://www.norwalk.k12.ia.us/  Go to the top and you will find Parent Portal.

Allie & Abby

Two students in my class (Allie & Abby) have reached the goal of reading 20 A.R. books and more! They are on their second page in reading. That means that they have read above and beond 20 books. Allie has read 36 books and Abby has read 23 books. They are trying nto read 40 books so they will be able to go to Mrs.Nichols pizza party.
                        Kennedy

Animanto

We have this new site that we like to go on.  It is called Animanto.  On animanto you can make viedoes and send them to other people.  We mostly use them to make cards.  You can also pick a song to go with it.  It is very fun.   Allie