Winter Break

From Ms. Berghuis and I, have a great winter break!

Your homework for the break will be to read at least 20 minutes a day and look up research for our Seed curriculum.

Enjoy family, friends, and time away from school, and then come back ready to work hard.

Classroom video

Here's some students working in small groups.

Sweeping Pittsburgh Clean

We are reading the story Sweeping Pittsburgh Clean this week. It's the story about Nellie Bly and how she took a stand during the women's rights movement.

I hope all of you got a chance to look over your report card with your parents. We have two weeks left until winter break so push hard and try your best so you can go into the break feeling good about your work.

My family and I are very talented. Our agent gave us a call over the weekend to perform this dance routine for MTV. This is the Iverson (Von Trapp) family.

Vocabulary words for this week are:

1. feminist
2. spheres
3. Chignon
4. controversy
5. dulcet
6. reformer
7. tenement
8. chaperon
9. circulation

Gandhi

Our story this week is on Gandhi. In what ways did he take a stand? What kind of things did he do?

Grades come out this week (Dec. 4th). Please go over them with your parents and discuss how you are doing. Please look at your strengths, as well as, areas that you can improve. We have a tendency to just look at how we can improve or our weaknesses. Ask yourself how can I be the best student that I can be? What do I need to do differently? What can I be most proud of?

Here are our vocabulary words this week. We have 19 so you need to make sure to study them and know them by Friday for our spelling and vocabulary test.'

1. relics
2. restrained
3. resistance
4. uncommitted
5. profound
6. humiliations
7. timidity
8. concept
9. civil disobedience
10. petition
11. nationalist
12. deported
13. boycotted
14. fasted
15. rural
16. contested
17. quell
18. fanatics
19. oppressor

A Long Way To Go

This is the title of our story this week. It's a longer story but very good. Please make sure to reread it at home so you can remember the details about it for the comprehension test on Friday.

Parents- students will be bringing home progress reports on Friday. I am starting a new trimester after these go out so be aware of new scores.

We have a guest author coming to our school on Thursday. Her name is Nancy Carlson and we made I am poems and self portraits to honor her. They will be posted in the gym but I wanted to show some of them on this blog.

Friday is picture retakes so make sure to practice that lovely smile on Thursday night!

Here are our vocabulary words for this week:

1. nanny
2. shirtwaist
3. tenement
4. bastings
5. knickers
6. suffragists
7. nickelodeon
8. offhanded
9. constitutional amendment
10. abolitionists
11. petitions

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving today. I will see you all at 5am the next day, shopping. Also, enjoy this little break from school and then come back ready to push hard until winter break!

Mr. Iverson

Hello

I kind of want to know who is reading this. Can you reply and say hi? Conferences are going great. I hope to see each student try harder academically and give your best effort. I love to see hard work pay off.

I really enjoy this class this year, but I will say they need to focus more and listen more. What do you think?

Mr. Iverson

Class Discussion

This week we have a new story called "Class Discussion". I have 16 new conferences on Wednesday day and night. If you are one of those conferences please make sure that your child comes with you. They have something to present at the beginning. Also, if you cannot make it for some reason, please call and let the office know that you cannot make it and we can reschedule it. Here are the vocabulary and spelling words for this week:

1. proposed
2. continuity
3. anonymously
4. rally
5. ally
6. accompany
7. incorporate

Taking A Stand

We started a new Unit today and a new story for this week. We will read the story Pretty Pennies Picket tomorrow and we went through the vocabulary today. This weeks vocabulary and spelling words are:

1. crescent
2. nary
3. skeins
4. halflight
5. polecats
6. unlikeliest
7. revelations
8. picket
9. picket line
10. human nature
11. refund

The Wright Brothers

Here are the vocabulary words and spelling words for this weeks story, "The Wright Brothers".

1. calculations
2. soldering
3. stabilize
4. warping
5. elevator
6. descent
7. thrust
8. sprocket
9. transmission
10. carbide
11. erratic
12. elated

Jesse Owens

We read a great story today about Jesse Owens and what he did for our country. What did you guys think about the story? What did you learn?

A Picture of Jesse Owens

Here are the vocabulary and spelling words for this week. We are reading about Jesse Owens this week so make sure to look some information on him and bring it to class for our Concept/Questions board.

1. pneumonia
2. inferior
3. relays
4. prejudice
5. exhibition
6. spectacle
7. sharecroppers

Some pictures

Weather Report

Vocabulary and Spelling words this week

knight
armor
champion
foe
hermit
patron saint
bade
stench
couched
revenge
glanced
brandished
smote
anvil
severed
brimstone
furl
laurel
Godspeed
bellowed
devour
perils

Fluency Testing

Attention parents! Attention parents! I am looking for a parent to come in once or twice a week in mornings from 9:45-12:20 to give reading fluency tests to students. If you can do this please respond, email me or call the school. Thank you.

Mt. Everest

We are reading On Top of the World this week. It's a story about Mt. Everest and the first two climbers (Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay) to reach the top. How did they persevere? Why do people climb Mt. Everest? Would you ever try and climb Mt. Rainer? Let's hear from you!

Here is a picture of me hiking and no it's not a Gatorade commercial!

Idioms, not Idiots

Today, our class learned about idioms in our reading and writing workbook. We are going to make posters of phrases of the actual sayings on one side and then on the other, we are going to draw what they mean.
Our A. R. program is up and running now so students can take comprehension tests from the story they read and receive points for how many questions they get right. Students should be reading at least 20 minutes a night. Each month, we have a book report they have to present to the class. This month, the students need to read a fiction book.

Back to School Night

Thursday, September 20^th is our “Back to School Night.” There will be two sessions -5:30-6:00 and 6:00-6:30. The format and information covered will be identical to the open house we had on September 4^th. If you are able to attend, I will be in the room that evening and you are welcome to stop by. If you are not able to attend I want to assure you, you will not be missing any new information. If you have any questions, please call 841-8690 or email at iversokl@puyallup.k12.wa.us

Wolves in the Classroom

We are starting "Amaroq, the Wolf" this week in reading. We went through our vocabulary words today and we have 16 spelling words for this week.

We are writing our district writing assessment paragraphs, which we started today. Carly is having a good time reading in Geography, where we are learning about our world. I don't know if Fini is having a good time though. :)

What have you enjoyed so far students?

Perseverance

Have you had an important goal that you worked on to achieve? Has persevering helped you reach a goal? Please share.

This is a picture of my son trying to persevere playing golf like many people have in the world! We start this unit on perseverance this week and we will begin by reading the story "The Fire Builder" in our Open Court series.

On Wednesday, the students get out at 12:00 to have the option of going to "Do the Puyallup" at the Puyallup Fair. Enjoy!

Great First Two Days

We have had a great first two days at school. I am enjoying this class a lot and can see this will be a great year. What do you think 6th graders?

Welcome Back!

If you are reading this, that means you have found my new blog for my 6th graders at Hunt Elementary!!!!!!

Get ready for an exciting time in my classroom this year.