Inventors

In Social Studies we are learning about people who had invented something, or made an innovation. We have been finding facts to put in our Voicethread and Animoto. We are also making a glogster on something that we want to be invented. Our epals in Arizona are studying about inventors too. When we are all done we will show our project to our epals.

By Anna

 Here is my glogster that I made with Sophie http://sofanna.glogster.com/zapper-4230/

Blogging about clay animation

Hey everybody, today im blogging about my class making clay animation. Most of our things are about a joke like why did the chicken cross the road? Becuase he saw something scary on the other side! So you you would make a chicken and the scary thing and then take a lot of picters with tiny movements. then you put all the pics together and it will look cheesy but very cool!!!

Dodgeball Championship

In school we do dodgeball.You have to win every game to get to the championships.Mrs.Fox  Mrs.Nichols class went to the championship.Fox lost by 2 rounds.And if you lost you were out of the tournment.It was fun playing dodgeball.We played it during our recess time.We beat Mrs.Austen,Mrs.Kirkal,Mrs.Hegland.It was a awesome feeling that we won.And we got to keep the trophy.
By Ryan

JA Biztown

      Tuesday in JA Biztown we had our own jobs to do all day! The student either got $8.00, $8.50, or 9.00 for their job. The students got paid twice today so they should have twice that much! We had two breaks today so we could eat lunch or go around and buy things or just hangout with friends that work at different stores. When we bought something we had to keep track of our money in our checkbooks.               By Sophie

Social Studies

   In social studies we're doing inventors and inovators. We have e-pals in Arizona and they're doing the same project When we both finish we are going to compare. We have created many things for our project. Animoto, glogster, and voicethreads. Ask your student who they are researching.
                                                                                                  Shae

Wiki for Social Studies

Right now, we are doing something in social studies called "Inventors". We have to do a VoiceThread, an Animoto, and a Glogster. But, the Glogster has to be an invention for the future, not an inventor. Anyway, everybody put the link to there VoiceThread, Animoto, and eventually, there Glogster because not everybody is done yet. The Wiki is on Mrs. Nichols class in Moodle. But if you dont want to go there, here's the link...  http://pnichols27.wikispaces.com/. Find the links on the left of the page to look at everything on our Wiki.

Blogging about Blogging!!

Every month we have to blog about something. If you forget to do your blog it counst as a late. Also, parents can check what we have for homework on the blog and you can see by the blogs we do whats going on in Lakewood Elementary. Also, Mrs. Nichols gives us a lot of time to complete our blogs in class but, you cant do them at home is the bad part because she is the ony one that knows the password!!!

By: Emma :))))))

Dare Report

In class we are wrigting  D.A.R.E. reports. We used to have D.A.R.E.every early out. I think D.A.R.E. has taught us alot about drugs and alcohol. We are trying to finish wrigting this report by the end of the week. We have three choices.One we can  have our parents  type our report after it's finshed. Two we can type it ourself. Third we can use Dragon. Dragon is were we can speak our report into a micraphone and it will type it for us.
                                                                                                          By: Brook

Music Class

  In music we are doing a research project. We are doing this project on famous jazz artists, such as Herbie Hancock. We all get a different artist to research, and when we finish with our research we will write a report to present to the class. This project has been really fun so far! I think it will be really cool when we finish it!

                              By: Abby

playstation move

The playstation move is like a kinnect for the playstation.You stand about 5 feet away from it and it does what ever you do on the screen.The only thing  is you have to have a certain game for it.We just got it about a week ago.Our PE teacher got it.It is a very fun system. It is in the pe for life room with all of the wiis and playstations.

Spring Break

     Spring break is coming up it's going to be the 12th through the 20th of March. A lot of people are going out of town for Spring Break to have fun or see some family members. I am going to the Mall of America. Everyone will have tons of fun being out of school. Well I just wanted to inform for about when it is and what I'm doing and what other people are doing. I hope everyone has a AWESOME Spring Break!!!


                                               By: Gigi

J.A. Biztown

   We have started J.A. Biztown!! Our mayor is Shae and our judge is Kennedy. We are going tuesday, March 8, 2011. We have practiced writing checks. We also did paperwork for our buisnesses. Along with all of that we went through interviews. Ask your child about Biztown and have them explain it to you more.

                                                                                                                    Thank you
                                                                                                                        Shae

                                                                                              

State basketball game

Yeah the boys won on  Tuesday!!!!It was 62-50. They are playing to night and it is still whiteout .If they win this game they will play on Saturday and win or lose the Championship game!!!THe team they are playing colors are black and yellow.The game starts at  6:30 tonight so be there to cheer them on . GO WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dodge Ball

  In dodge ball our class has wun our first games so far. Our next game will be after spring break. We will be playing Mrs.Hegland's class. In a dodge ball gamewe do girls vs. girls, and boys vs. boys. We love playing dodge ball, and I hope we beat Mrs.Hegland's class!

Spelling

In spelling we do workbook pages to hel us with our words.In our spelling books we somtimes do crosswords,word searches.And if you get a 100% you can choose to do the work book pages or do the extra page.We take our spelling tests on spellingcity.com.On their we can take the test to get better.Or you can play games that have your words in it.Some of the games are really fun to do.And if you get a lot of practice you can do very good on your test.
By Ryan

The New Computer

We have a new computer in our class.  Mrs.Nichols entered a contest on twiter and won.  The computer is so cool you can touch it instead of using the mouse.  The computer has a camera so you can skype.  It is 23 inches wide and has windows 7.  It is pretty cool.   Allie

Biz Town

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What a great day at Biz Town.  Ask your child what they liked the best and what they learned!! 

Henry Ford

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Henry Ford visited with the kids about his life and wished them good luck on their invention project.

Social Studies

Katie

In Social Studies we are doing The American Revolution. We are learning about people that were in it and people that were an important part of the war. Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Nichols are our Social Studies teachers, but we're with Mrs.Fox right now. Mrs. Fox teaches our Social Studies class, and she is really good at it. She shows us what happened in the war and when it happened. I like having Social Studies and so does everybody else. We have lots of fun and we do projects that are fun a lot. Oh, and before I forget, everybody did awesome on the test!!

In dodge ball our class has wun our first games so far. Our next game will be Thursday March 10th, 2011. We will be playing Mrs.Hegland's class.

Tech Day

<- This is Katie.

     Recently in class we earned tech day with our marbles. We get to bring in snacks and drinks and our tech stuff and we get to watch the movie MegaMind. We aren't finished with it yet since we were so busy the whole last week. We have been trying and trying to watch it and do our tech thing, but I'm sure we will finish it this week. Well... remember to have your kids bring snacks and a drink and tech stuff. (just for yourself not the whole class) We'll have tons on fun!!!! (:


                            By: Gigi

Math So Far

    In math we just took a test. Our test was on ratios and proportons. The was pretty hard but I think we did pretty good.  We havn't got our tests back but we already started on unit 9.  We also have a wall of fame for answering a question right at any random time of day. Last week we had to remember how rates and ratios are not the same.
                                                  Thats all for math right now,
                                                       Brandon

Health Teachers

The dietitian's are back! Like last year we are learning more about eating right. They talk to us about the food pyramid too. Sometimes we do activities and  make healthy foods with the dietitian's. They have been working with us in P.E. We have been setting goals with them. the goals are usually eating more fruits, veggies, and doing more exercise.     By Anna

New Rotation

Hi, today my blog is about inventors. My inventors name is John Wesley Hyatt. We all have a partner to help and for us to help them. We also have papers that will help us get organized. So you should ask your kid about what inventor they have and what they created. Our epals in Arizona are doing this to so this will be fun to see what there inventors and ours created!!! This is a website about our inventors so you can find out what they invented,  http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/inventors1, this website might take a while to load.

The Music Concert

A long time ago in the begining of Febuary we had a music concert.  I had a lot of fun doing it and the theme was rock and roll. I think it was the best concert we have had and it was also the last one.  My favorite part was when Chantz flipped Gretta Hegland over his head.  It was really fun and the reason that we all got to wear purple and gold was because it was our last concert and we were celebrating all of the years that we have worked with Mrs. Friesen.
                                                      by Max

Boys state basketball game!!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight is the state basketball game.The boys made it this far so I hope they win.At the game it is whiteout so wear white.Tickets cost $8 dollors;you can buy them there at wells fargo arena.Good luck for the boys.  I will blog more if they when or lose.

-Bailey

Epals

In writing, we are doing something called Epals. We are writing to people in France and in Arizona. We can tell them about school and weather in Iowa. It's really fun learning about people in different parts of the country and even different parts of the world!!! I hope I can continue to do this because it is a great expereince talking to them.

Music Concert

Our music concert was very fun! I really liked how we got to do a rock 'n' roll theme. I think our parents really enjoyed it too. I am really happy because it was our last concert in elementary school! So we won't have another one for a long time! I think just about everyone liked the concert!
              By:Abby

New Tech Tool!!

We have a new 23 inch, touch screen Think Center in our 5th grade room.  How did we get such a great new toy?  Mrs. Nichols won the new computer in a contest on Twitter!!  Kids are so excited and have been checking out what this new tool can do.  We plan on uses it in many ways in our classroom.  We are starting a new unit on inventors and will be using it for research, Glogster, Animoto, and Vuvox!  We will be putting it to work.  I would like to put out a big THANK YOU to all that made it possible for us to be enjoying this new tech tool!  Thanks Cool Cat!+  




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