Sheridan Elementary has two experienced teachers, Michelle Strecker and Donna Yu, at the 5th and 6th grade level. Donna Yu will be teaching a combined 5th/6th grade classroom this year, while Michelle Strecker will have a 5th grade class.
Expectations: By the end of fifth grade, your child will be able to:
- Read 25 books for pleasure and information
- Compare and contrast information read
- Think about why an author writes a story or article
- Understand ideas that are implied but not said.
- Recognize figurative language, such as "I have a frog in my throat"
- Find information in almanacs, maps, atlases, field guides and audio/visual materials.
- Use a variety of sentence structures in papers with multiple paragraphs.
- Write effectively to make a point, persuade, give direction and/or for various audiences.
- Take notes, outline ideas and write an essay stating an opinion and giving supporting details.
- Prepare and give presentations.
- Write a dialogue between characters using quotation marks and other punctuation.
- Plan, draft, revise, edit and publish for a specific audience.
- Collect, record and analyze information in bar, line and circle graphs.
- Change decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals.
- Measure and create angles using a compass or a protractor.
- Work on math problems that may take a few days to solve.
- Read and order numbers to one billion
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide four-digit numbers by three-digit numbers
- Understand radius and diameter of circles, find the perimeter of various shapes.
Parent Workshop If you are interested in attending a parent workshop to learn more
about these expectations, please call the St. Paul Public Schools
Family and Community Involvement Office at (651) 767-8109.
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