It's Been Great!

I wanted to let my students from this last year know that I am going to be a new P.E. teacher in the Puyallup School District. I will be at Waller Road, Pope, and Brouillet Elementary's this year. This has always been a passion for me and I finally get to do it. Thank you for all the great times that we had this last year at Hunt. Good luck in the future and I know you all will succeed!

Mr. Iverson

Thank you!

Thank you for a great year this year! I hope each one of you have success in junior high and in the future. I think I will always remember this group because it was my first year at Hunt. I want to thank both classes for raising money to buy me a Wii. My family will enjoy playing that this summer.

Stop by next year and let me know how junior high is going! Enjoy your summer!

Mr. Iverson

Thank You!

It was my birthday yesterday and my class and my reading class (Ms. Berghuis's class) made it a great day for me. I came to school and walked in my room to see a big Happy Birthday poster on the wall. Furthermore, I got a card from every student, a white chocolate mocha, some cookies, and the birthday song sang to me in five different ways (Russian, Japanese, Thailand (Thai), Spanish, and Sign Language).

Mrs. Hendrix, Taylor's mom brought the class and I cupcakes at lunch with a balloon attached. It was an exciting day for me as I grow older and wiser (so I think or am telling myself). This year is coming to an end soon and it just shows me how special this class has been to me this year. I will never forget my first class at Hunt Elementary!

Mr. Iverson

Mr. Iverson's Camp Video

Miracle Ranch Squirrel Dance

WASL Success!

We finished the WASL today. I thought the students did a great job. After each test, I asked the students if they thought that the test was easy, medium, or hard. Most said that they thought it was easy and some said medium but never hard. I think that is a good sign. I also asked if any thought they got a perfect score with none wrong, and some actually said that they thought they didn't get any wrong. I wouldn't doubt it with this class. I am excited to see their scores next year.

6th grade camp is coming soon. May 6th- 9th at Miracle Ranch. We have been preparing pre-camp lessons to get ready for it. I think the students are very excited to go to camp. It's really fun to see how some students that are shy, really shine at camp.

I am really enjoying this class this year. We have fun in the classroom but also work very hard!

Spring Break

March 24th-28th

We are reading the story of "The Man Who Wrote Messiah" this week in our Open Court books. This selection is a biography of one of the most successful composers of his time, George Frederick Handel. Here a the vocabulary words for this week.

1. oratorio
2. patron
3. repertory
4. improvising
5. harpsichord

Thursday this week, we have a 6th grade camp parent meeting in the gym. This will start at 6:30 and end at 7:30. We will go over what the students need to bring to camp, the camp schedule, the camp forms, money issues, and try to answer any questions you might have. If you cannot make it, I will be going over this information with the students after spring break. Hope to see you there!

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Last Week of February

The vocabulary words for this week's story are:

1. coquetry
2. exquisite
3. stilted
4. tomes
5. tone-deaf

The Seattle Flight Museum people are coming on Friday for an assembly at 10:30. It's family night that night also. This week we get the opportunity to hear about different countries this week. We have been working hard on country reports and this week the students get to present them. I am looking forward to the different cultures that we can learn about. Some students will bring in food and other items from that country.

The Silk Route

This weeks Open Court story is on page 219. We have 8 vocabulary words this week and students are creating synonyms for each of these words. The test will be Friday. This is a four day week so make sure you study harder because you lost a day to study!

1. Caravan
2. Steppes
3. Bolts
4. Imperial
5. Porcelain
6. Skirts
7. Thickets
8. Nomads

The Cay

We read a wonderful novel this week before our four day winter break. It was called The Cay. It seemed like everyone really liked it. Retell the story to someone!

The 6th grade teachers went to a camp meeting last night. Remember that the total is $225 this year for four days. We are going to have a parent meeting sometime in March. The camp that we are going to this year is Miracle Ranch from May 6th - May 9th.


Make sure that you are taking AR tests after you read a book. Grades are due for the 2nd trimester in March and I am measuring the goal setting section based on how many points each student has received. Each student told me their point goal for the 2nd trimester.

Remember that country reports are due Monday, February 25th.

Enjoy this little break that we are having this weekend!

Let It Snow

I hope everyone enjoyed the snow yesterday. Wednesday night, we have a 6th grade music performance in honor of Martin Luther King and our SEED curriculum. The performance starts at 6:30pm. I hope to see you all there!

Here are the vocabulary words for this weeks test on Friday. We are reading the story titled "The People On The Beach"

1. anthropologist
2. chambers
3. pumice
4. cremated
5. sulphur
6. balustrade
7. trowel
8. acrylic
9. dank
10. galley

2008- Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a great winter break! We are starting a new unit today-Uncovering the Past. Our story that we are going to read on Tuesday and Wednesday is Digging Up The Past. Our vocabulary words this week are:

1. crayfish
2. curious
3. fluted
4. subdivision
5. excavate
6. trowel
7. documents

Here is a video of something that I tried over the winter break. I really like it!

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