Fifth Grade

Abigail Dankoff

Holy Family staff member since 2019

University of Notre Dame

Alliance for Catholic Education
 

I have been teaching since 2016. I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN.  I earned my Masters in Education through the Alliance for Catholic Education through Notre Dame.  

In Fifth Grade, children will…

Religion

• Understand that the Sacraments are signs by which Jesus shares God’s life and grace with us. 

• Understand the celebration of the Sacraments is grounded in Sacred Scripture. 

• Reverence the signs, symbols, and sacramentals of our faith. 

• Demonstrate knowledge that Jesus calls us to serve him in various ways in our daily lives. 

Language Arts

• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling when writing.

• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content. 

• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. 

• Effectively engage in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. 

• Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. 

• Form all letters / sentences using cursive. 

Math

• Write and interpret numerical expressions

• Analyze patterns and relationships.

• Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to the hundredths. 

• Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.

• Convert like measurement units. 

• Represent and interpret data. 

• Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

Social Studies

• Identify and compare historical Native American groups and settlements that existed in North America and had contact with European exploration in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 

• Create and interpret timelines showing major people, events, and developments in the early history of the United States. 

• Identify, locate, and describe places and regions in the United States. 

• Analyze how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political, economic, social events and situations in the United States. 

Science

• Understand the structure and properties of matter

• Use models to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

• Obtain and compare information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.

• Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed towards the center of the planet.

• Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.