Welcome to 5th Grade
5th Grade Teachers for 2021/2022 School Year
5-405/5-416 Mrs. Tendilla and Mrs. Levithan 5-411 Ms. Lalicata and Mrs. Alves
5-413 Ms. Skulikidis 5-417 Mrs. Bloom 4/5-109 Ms. Lee
Math:
Please continue to practice your math skills by signing onto your Splashmath account and IXL. You can also practice your multiplication and division facts by logging onto these free websites:
● xtramath.org
● Khanacademy
● Mathplayground.com
● https://www.ixl.com/math/skill-plans/new-york-next-generation-learning-standards-grade-5
Reading:
Please read for 30 mins daily on RazKids or You can also access more books to read by logging onto these free websites:
● Getepic.com
● Raz-kids.com
● myON.com
SchoolName:NYCReadsElementary
Username: nyc Password: read
Additional free resources/websites:
● kids.nationalgeographic.com
● exploratorium.edu/explore
● funbrain.com
Thank you for your cooperation and for ensuring that your child completes these assignments. Have a safe and healthy summer! We want your child to continue to learn, grow, and have fun.
Respectfully,
5th Grade Teachers
5-413 Ms. Skulikidis 5-417 Mrs. Bloom 4/5-109 Ms. Lee
Math:
Please continue to practice your math skills by signing onto your Splashmath account and IXL. You can also practice your multiplication and division facts by logging onto these free websites:
● xtramath.org
● Khanacademy
● Mathplayground.com
● https://www.ixl.com/math/skill-plans/new-york-next-generation-learning-standards-grade-5
Reading:
Please read for 30 mins daily on RazKids or You can also access more books to read by logging onto these free websites:
● Getepic.com
● Raz-kids.com
● myON.com
SchoolName:NYCReadsElementary
Username: nyc Password: read
Additional free resources/websites:
● kids.nationalgeographic.com
● exploratorium.edu/explore
● funbrain.com
Thank you for your cooperation and for ensuring that your child completes these assignments. Have a safe and healthy summer! We want your child to continue to learn, grow, and have fun.
Respectfully,
5th Grade Teachers
Fifth Grade Benchmarks (March)
Reading
Writing
Math
Science
Social Studies
Academic & Personal Behaviors
- Students must be reading at a level U/V or higher.
- Students must be able to summarize and retell important parts of a story
- Students must be able to differentiate between fact and opinion and cause and effect.
- Students must be reading 40 minutes independently with an increase of an additional 10 minutes every other month.
- Students must use appropriate language when using different reading strategies.
- Students must find text evidence to support their answers across genres including articles, poems and passages.
- Students must be able to link details in a text to determine theme of a literary text.
Writing
- Students must use paragraphs, indentation, punctuation and spelling
- Students must have knowledge of high frequency words.
- Students must be able to understand figurative language
- Students must be able to write an informative/ explanatory essay.
- Students must be able to write narratives including voice
- Students must be able to write a journalism writing piece using real life experiences and the information gathered using first and second accounts
- Students must be able to compare two texts, write a response on the common theme(s) and text-based questions
Math
- Students must be able to apply knowledge of patterns to place decimals in sums, differences, products and quotients
- Students must be able to problem solve by adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators
- Students must be able to multiply and divide fractions by fractions, mixed and whole numbers
- Students must be able to simplify fractions into simplest form
- Students must be able to read and graph coordinates on a line graph Students must be able to name coordinate pairs
- Students must be able to multiply and divide by powers of ten
Science
- Students will be able to identify a claim about ecosystems and use information to write an essay to support the claim.
- Students will be able to identify patterns of the earth and sky.
- Students will understand and apply concept vocabulary.
Social Studies
- Students must be able to understand Pangaea and the coastal route theories
- Students must be able to compare native peoples
- Students must be able to use map skills in reading a variety of maps
Academic & Personal Behaviors
- Students must be able to correctly copy information from the board to their notebook
- Students must be able to complete classwork
- Students must be able to complete homework assignments