Fifth Grade

Abigail Dankoff

Holy Family staff member since 2019

University of Notre Dame

Alliance for Catholic Education

I have 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 knowlede 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.