Science

(this picture is for planting our plants in the terrariums and this is how good they grew well)      In science we have just gotten done with our terrariums and brine shrimp and all of that plant stuff. But Friday was test day. I missed 5 out of 34 so that means I got 85% and thats a B. We also worked on beetles, plants, and brine shrimp. For beetles we had to do their medamorpheses and research different beetles. For plants we planted corn, clovers, barley, radishes, and peas. All of the plants grew big exept for the clovers. They all also molded but still grew. For brine shrimp we put a little spoonful of eggs in a cup and put 0, 2, 4, 6 spoons of salt in each of our 4 cups. We learned that they need to have salt to live and 2 and 4 spoons of salt made them viable. But in the 0 and 6 spoons of salt in we put 2 spoons of salt in the 0 spoons and 75ml of water in the 6 spoons. The 0 spoons grew but the 6 spoons didn't for any of our groups. We have tons of fun in science.



By: Gigi

TIE DYE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

At the end of the year we are going to have a tie dye day. your are going to have to supply your own shirt preferebly a white tee shirt and bring it on Monday, May 2nd. For Mrs. Nichols please be ready on May 10th so you can be ready to tie dye. If you have any questions call office and ask for Mrs. Klein.

yours truly, will showers

ZOOMER!!

    Allie created a sonic pic on the book Zoomer. A sonic pic is when you take pictures of a book, then nararate it. Hers was so entertaining we all wanted to make sonic pics. So many of usstarted one. We mat then use them for skyping the 1st graders. Thanks!!

                                                                                                           Shae

D.A.R.E

On April 13th it was the last day of  D.A.R.E.For the last day of  D.A.R.E we got to use fatal glasses and played basketball and walked in a strait line with them on, and they also brought the drug dog.We found out that the drug dog could search are schools lunch room for drugs in less than ten minutes.

Math

In Mr.Ramthun's math class we are learing how to solve pan-balance problems. We are doing ok, but we should practice a little more on them. Anyway, we do a variety of diffrent pan-balance problems.Some of the time we work on our own, but Mr.Ramthun helps us too. Today we just started working math problems using algebra.

By Anna

Allie's Dad

A few days ago Allie's dad came and talked to us about patents.  He is a patent lawyer and he gives people patents for their inventions.  A patent is a thing that you get when you invent something and you don't want anyone else to setal your idea.  One patent is on the telephone, the first person to invent it was Elisha Gray but he didn't get a patent so Alexander Gram Bell whos name everyone knows.
                                     By Max
                                       

Clamation!!!

In art, our class did claymation. We had a partner that Mrs.Nichols chose. We had either to search a joke or not do a joke. Then, we had to make the characters that were in our joke out of clay. Next, we took a picture then we moved our figure then we tooke another picture etc. The equivalents are 300 pictures =30 seconds and 600 pictures = 60 seconds(1 min.)

This is a link to all of our classes Claymations!! :)

http://pnichols27.wikispaces.com/Claymation

By: Emma :)

Frames

With the pictures we took with cameras we made a video. We had to put the pictures into a program called frames. It takes the pictures and puts them all together into a movie. You can add signs into the movie if you are changing the sceane or setting of the movie.
                       Brandon

I.T.B.S brain breaks!!!

During the ITBS we learned a new kind of brain break, actully we learned three. I think that it helped us a lot because we needed breaks in between the tests so we weren't so tired. Here is one of the most exciting ones we learned during our tests, put your hands together with the two middle figner knuckles. All of the rest of the fingers are touching points. Now try to get them off two fingers at a time. I couldnt do it with my third finger and still haven't figured out how to.

I meant to say my fourth finger!  ☺

Calenders!!!!!!!!!!!

In calenders we write the word given to us. Then we write the first sentence to the right of it and next we try to find a word that sounds just like it for instance like bow for bowing down and bow as in bow and arrow.

yours truly, will showers

Iowa History Play

In school we did the Iowa history play. We did it on the April 8. It was a lot of fun to do. Mrs.Austen,Mrs.Kricakal and Mrs.Tobey did it on the April 7. And Mr.Ranthum,Mrs.Bedwell,Mrs.Hegland on April 6. The boys got to wear mustaches if  they wanted to when you ripped it off it hurt for a little bit. Their were four parts the first one is dancing second one is the civil war introducing some of types of the people came to america and the last part was in the school house.
      By Ryan

               http://pnichols27.wikispaces.com/Iowa+History+Play

Inventors/Inventions!

Our latest project was on inventors. We all paried up, except for one person, and we all were assigned an inventor. We researched them and with that information we made projects! We used Animoto, Voicethred, which you will probably remember from conferenecs, Glogster, and the one person who was by herself made it to Museum Box. I have included a link to our Wikispaces where you can find links to everyone's projects! I also included a picture of one of the Glogsters, enjoy!

Wikispace!! --the link to the Wikispace!

By:Abby

Speed Play

Every week we have a game that we play with our weekly vocab words. It is called speed play. It has the definitions to the words and you have to drag and drop them to the line below. You try to get all the vocab words as fast as you can and then you submit your name and you might just make the leaderboard. The one who finishes the fastest in our class gets a piece of candy. It is hard at first but it is a fun way to help us on our vocab words.
               Brandon

To play our speed play for this week click on the link below.
http://www.superteachertools.com/speedmatch/online/game19605/

Itbs

We started Itbs on April 4th ,and we finished on April 7th.We completed 15 test.Itbs stands for Iowa Tests Basic Skills. We got to bring lemon drops and jolly ranchers to suck on them during the test.We all have worked hard on Itbs.

Art fair

The art fair is coming up real soon.Parents and their children can come and enjoy all the  fasinating art that is shown.The art that is shown is by your children and what they have been learning and doing in art this year.The art fair is about how kids can show their wonderful art talents.I hope you all can come  and see these fasinsting art work.

-Bailey

Brine Shrimp

In science class, we did brine shrimp. In the picture above you won't be able to see the shrimp because, well, there shrimps! They are so small that you might not be able to see them up close and personal! They are in cups with salt water, and all there is tons of them floating around. Most of our shrimp were unsuccessful. Maybe some got lucky, or the others did something wrong. The shrimp were very cute to the girls, and to the boys, COOL! We had lots of fun with them.

The Bowling party is on May 20th.It is the last AR test of the year.You have to have 20 books to go.The people who do make it get to go to airlanes and bowl. 3rd grade has to have 15 books 4th has to have 17 and 5th has to have 20.So far there are about 100 kids that have made it.You have to have all of your books done a week befor we go.It will be very fun!

Ethan

the may term locks

0In a few weeks may term starts and we have to put a lock on our lockers.  We have two locks and they are both purple.  Since we have to put a lock on our lockers we have to figure out how to unlock them.  In class we take turns passing around the locks and unlocking them.  So far about half of the class can unlock the locks but we are still figuring it out.

Glogster

   Gloster is very fun. It is almost like blogging but it's like a poster. I like glogster because there is anamation so some props move not just stay still like a statue but some do. You can also use your own pictures or videos and thats what I like. So thats what we do with glog.

6th grade math tessellations

In math we are doing tessellations.  We learned about esher and semiregular tessellations.
We are on out last unit.  It is unit 10.  After we finish unit 10, we are going to take
the end of the year test.  Mrs.Nichols thinks we will be down by the end of April.
                                        By- Allie

Ear Buds

In our class we need to use ear buds. We do because we go take our spelling tests on a website called spelling city, it tells you the words and you have to spell it. We also listen to our reading street stories on Moodle. We always need ear buds around the classroom. One big reason is so that we don't disturb others. Mrs.Nichols has already gone through 6 or 7 pairs and they're gone! So make sure you always have ear buds!

               By: Katie :)

Brian POP

Brian Pop is a special website because you take a test then it grades it for you. We have done many tests on this website. Like stuff that comparison or to one big topic of thee world the last one we did was about a lady who went to space.This test that we take is ten questions. Its fun but a little hard so its a good challenge. Mrs. Nichols may or may not grade it but she usualy does. This is the best website to learn in my opinion because we watch a movie and take a test after it.