Unit 2 Week 4 Vocab Words

Vocab Test on Friday, December 14th.

•gossiped
•reluctant
•blared
•elegant
•hesitation
•forbidden
•irresistible
•mischievous

Unit 2 Week 4 Spelling Words

Spelling Test on Friday, December 11th.

•bawl
•brought
•cautious
•counter
•coil
•foul
•foundation
•fountain
•joint
•mouthful
•dawdle
•sprawls
•sprouts
•hoist
•turmoil
•stout
•clause
•douse
•scrawny
•turquoise

Unit 2 Week 2 Vocab Words

Test is Friday, November 13th.


•predators
•species
•survive
•lunging
•surroundings
•alert
•vibrates
•prey

Unit 2 Week 2 Spelling Words

Test is Friday, November 13th.


•abilities
•countries
•batches
•difficulties
•eddies
•fangs
•identities

•lashes
•liberties
•blizzard
•culture
•goggles
•summon

•champion
•kennel
•valley
•fragment
•gallop
•vulture
•pigment

Math Unit D

Homework D.4 page 2
Word problems---make a table.

This assignment is due Monday, October 26th.

Math

Purple Packet
D.3a due Wednesday.

Our test is scheduled for Friday, October 30th.

mournful
sympathy
delivering
decency
bulletin board
injury
slurp
shrieks

Unit 2 Week 1 Spelling Words.

Our Spelling test is on Friday, October 30th.


afternoon
background
cornfield
cornmeal
earthworm
flagpole
mountaintop
overcome
pillowcase
rooftop
cardboard
ice-skating
ninety-one
vice president
all right
field trip
armchair
cheerleader
eggshell
footstep

Math Homework Due 9/23/09

Math Quiz 3 Unit B

#'s 3, 4, 5

Math Homework Due 9/22/09

Math Homework

Text pg 127-128

#'s 2,4,6,8,10

Due 9/22/09

Math Homework Due 9/17/09

Math Text

pg. 118
#'s 2-8

Grammar Packet Due 9/18/09

Today we assigned a Grammar Packet
Forests of the World pages 13-18

Please turn in the GP on Friday, September 18th.

Math Homework Due 9/14/09

Math Text page 89

#'s 5,6,8,10

Due 9/14/09

Math Homework Due 9/11/09

Math text

Page 71

Problems 4,6,8,10

Due 9/11/09

Unit 1 Week 3 Spelling words

Spelling schedule:

Pre-test today, test on Monday, September 14th, and re-take test on Friday, September 18th.

Good Luck!

•amuse
•bamboo
•brood
•crooks
•tuna
•doom
•few
•view
•hoof
•hooks
•hue
•bruise
•lose
•duty
•handbook
•prove
•mute
•plume
•union

Unit1 Week 3 Vocab

Only five word for this shortened two-week long unit:

buffet
major
quest
reduce
settings

Week 2

Week one flew by and we accomplished many of our goals!

Thank you parents for all the help getting students organized and ready. Please remember to have your students planner signed EVERY morning. It is their ticket into the classroom.

This week we will continue to work on our Unit 1 Week 1 spelling words. A retake for the quiz will be on Friday. I will accept the higher of the two scores for your student's grade.

Mrs. Patterson and Miss Wolfe will be rotating for Social Studies and Science this week. Please look at your student's planner for assignments in those subjects.

Thanks again,

Mr. Helmer

Unit 1 Week 1 Vocabulary Words

The test will be on Friday, good luck Howlers!!

slumped
soggy
capable
categories
strands
gigantic
credit
luminous

Unit 1 Week 1 Spelling Words

Below are the spelling words. There is a quiz on Friday, as usual. Please study your words created in your study folder on Monday. Remember to sort them as you study: EASY-QUEASY-HARD.

Good luck!

batch
rough
stump
jut
tough
nick
shrug
tenth
stuff'
laugh
guess
damp
cot
fling
gush
dove
lead
notch
scan
sense

Parents and students,

Welcome to Helmer' Howlers and 5th grade at Desert Palms. I am very excited to have your young student in our classroom this year. We are called Howlers because our mascot is the Coyote. Although I have taught many years at fifth grade, I know this will be your student's ONLY year in fifth grade, so we have plans to make the journey very special!

Howlers use technology in the classroom. We have a Smart Board and ten student computers. ALL of our major writing assignments will be composed on the computer. Students will have time to complete these assignments during school hours. You may complete them at home if you choose.

I teach writing to all fifth grade students, so as I leave the classroom during the week you will see the other 5th grade teachers when it is time for Science and Social Studies. Students are also required to compose and deliver two different speeches throughout the year.

Every Friday, a yellow folder will arrive home with school papers and student assignments that have been graded. Please return it empty WITH the reading log on Monday mornings.

We will have an exceptional experience this year as we are the BEST fifth grade class on campus!

Thank you,

Mr. John Helmer

U4W2 Spelling

allow
arousing
boundry
bestow
grownup
coward
doubting
rowdy
encounter
power
shower
trousers
grouchy
applause
lawyer
August
laundry
caution
flawless
faucet

Math Vocabulary Unit 4 Probability

Pleasde study the following vocabulary words with your student. We will have a vocabulary test on Monday, April 27th.

Impossible Event
Likely
Unlikely
More Likely
Less Likely
Probability
Event
Outcome

Patriotic Speech part 4

On Friday, all students were given the at-home practice speech form which needs to be completed by a parent or adult. Please return this form to your homeroom for a grade.

Thanks,

Mr. Helmer

U4W2 Vocabulary

Vocab test Wednesday, April 29th.

glimpse
secluded
behavior
arroyo
arousing
stunned
nestled
unpleasant

Vocab & Spelling U4W1

Monday, April 13th-Vocab Test

Friday, April 17th- Spelling Test

Patriotic Speech Part 2

By now, students should be well into part 2. For this assignment, all 5th grade students are required to complete a circle map to brainstorm their patriotic speech ideas. Remember to include ONLY patriotic themes. The subject's birthdate and other obvious information is not needed.

Spelling Words U4W1

angle
heron
lengthen
marvel
woolen
listen
bushel
signal
nozzle
practical
barrel
captain
frighten
slogan
mountain
pretzel
fable
global
sandal
chuckle

Patriotic Speech Part 1

Patriotic Speech Unit 2

Students from all three 5th grade classes are required to complete a speech project. This is simular to the speech unit we completed before Winter Break. On Thursday Mrs. Patterson's class and Mr. Helmer's class chose their speech topic. On Friday, Miss Wolfe's class chose their speech topic.

Due Monday, April 6th:

Bring to class three of the follwoing resources about your topic(choose any combination of three).

books
magazines
articles
interviews
notes
printouts from the internet

Students will begin Assignment # 2 on Monday with these resources.

Vacabulary Unit 4 Week 1

scald
permission
autograph
fare
blurted
clenched
chisled
spectacular

AIMS Week

This week we have AIMS testing. Please make sure that your student receives lots of rest and eats a healthy breakfast.

Thanks,

John Helmer

Spelling UNIT 3 WEEK 5

director
shatter
soldier
governor
error
commander
peddler
professor
pillar
splendor
scissors
vapor
scholar
sugar
equator
labor
founder
crater
saucer
gentler

Vocabulary UNIT 3 WEEK 5

robot
defective
meteor
rotated
staggered
reversed
dangling
tokens

Unit 3 week 4 Spelling

The week of 2-23 to 2-27

Spelling Words:


python
scorching
season
dozen
motion
phony
active
canvas
expert
embrace
coastal
reserve
govern
flurry
copper
appoint
beside
cocoon
restore
observe

Unit 3 Week 4 Vocabulary Words

The weeks words are from Unit 3 Week 4 in Treasures.

Vocabulary words:

brimming
gushed
landscape
scorching
parched
scrawny
gnarled
progress

The week of 2-23 to 2-27

The week of 2-23 to 2-27

Monday Field Trip to Challenger

New spelling words and vocabulary words, both tests will be on Monday, March 2nd.

Thank you,

Mr. Helmer

Week of 2-9 to 2-13

This week we will have our spelling test on Wednesday and our vocabulary test on Thursday. Parents, please remember Partent-Teacher conferences are on Thursday and for a few on Wednesday before our Girls' Basketball game on campus.

Thanks,

John Helmer

Vocab words for the week of 2-9 to 2-13-09

humanity
inevitable
unheeded
enlightened
prevailing

Spelling Words for the week of 2-9 to 2-13-09

orphan
complain
hilltop
concrete
instant
reckless
handsome
fairground
grassland
landlord
pilgrim
district
address
improve
although
partner
footprint
dolphin
cockpit
fiddler

Math Homework

Math Text Book

pages 375-6

1-30

Social Studies Homework

5th grade assignment for Mrs. Patterson

Due 2-04-09

American Revolution

Cause and Effect Assignment

1. Read pages 272-273
2. Create a cause and effect thinking map
3. Map should focus on the Townsend Act
4. Use a white sheet of paper for the assignment.

Math Homework

Math text book

Tuesday pg. 359 1-10
Wednesday pg. 360 10-34

Spelling Words for the week of 1-20 to 1-23-09

ideas
poet
riot
video
piano
diary
radio
fluid
genuine
rodeo
meteor
cruel
casual
meander
diameter
fuel
partiot
ruin
diet
trial

Vocab Words for 1-20 to 1-12-09

representative
colonel
attorney
qualify
postpone
submit
legislature
satisfactory

For the Week of: 1-20-09 to 1-23-09

Friday we have the following items due:
Grammar packet GP
Home Work packet HWP
Spelling packet SP

Also, we have daily MATH homework.

Thanks,
Mr. Helmer

News 1-16-09

Our spelling test and the vocabulary test will be on Tuesday 1-20-09. We have pushed back both of these off of Friday because I was out for two days of training this week.

Today, 1-16-09, the Social Studies project for our rotating teacher, Mrs. patterson, is due.

Grammar and Homework packets are due today as well.

Thanks,
Mr. Helmer

Spelling Words for the week of: 1-12 to 1-16-09

tyrant
profile
smoky
minus
local
equal
linen
legal
loser
decent
humor
closet
comet
punish
cacant
recent
student
shiver
cavern
panic

Vocab Words for the week of 1-12 to 1-16-09

navigation
instruct
swagger
patriots
tyrant
stark
governor
spunk

Spelling Words

Spelling Words for the week of 1-5 to 1-9-2009

Spelling Quiz on Friday, 1-9-09

absent
valley
pigment
blizzard
empire
mutter
goggles
fifteen
goggles
dentist
jogger
kennel
summon
champion
mustang
flatter
fragment
hollow
culture
vulture

Vocabulary Words

Vocabulary Words for the week of 1-5-2009 to 1-9-2009:

vastness
enthusiasm
horizon
ravine
presence
swerved
flickered
suspended

The test is on Friday, 1-9-2009