6 Homeroom
Reminders:
- students will be responsible for a morning routine-turn in anything for me or the office, make their lunch choice, take down chairs, prepare for their morning
- our buddy class will be third grade
6th Grade Advanced Math
- Multiplication and Division of Fractions
- Integers
- The Coordinate Plane
- Rational Numbers
- Expressions – Writing and Evaluating
- Equations – Writing and Solving
REMEMBER TO CHECK EMAIL FOR THE WEEKLY CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER WHICH CONTAINS SPECIFIC PROJECT, QUIZ, AND TEST DATES!
6th Grade Math
Ratios & rates
Fractions, decimals, & percents
Compute with multi digit numbers
Multiply & divide fractions
integers & the coordinate plane
Expressions & Equations
Functions & inequalities
Area, Volume & surface area
Statistics
Simple Solutions
6th Grade ELA
Vocabulary--Units are completed independently over a 2-week span, with the last day of the second week being a test day. Parts of units are assigned in chunks, and students should be writing due dates for each section in their planners.
English
- General review of parts of speech
- Sentences and sentence structure
- Prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Interjections
- Pronouns
- Capitalization and punctuation
- Writing projects for English and in conjunction with other subjects, with a focus on paragraph development
Literature
- Poetry
- Figurative language
- Elements of plot
- Character development
- Setting
- Conflict
- Written response to literature
- Selections from literature book
- Novels
Ancient World History and Geography
Sixth grade covers ancient world history, with an emphasis in geography, beginning with the foundations of a successful civilization and ending with the Medieval European.
Topics covered this year include:
- Early Civilization
- Principles of Geography
- Africa: Ancient Egypt, Medieval Africa
- Asia: Ancient Israelites, Islamic Civilization, Ancient India, Ancient China, China in the Middle Ages, Medieval Japan
- Europe: Ancient Greece, Roman Civilization, Medieval Europe
Religion
The sixth grade uses the Blest Are We series.
Topics covered this year include:
- Answering God’s Call
- God Saving Us
- God’s Kingdom
- Doing God’s Will
- Everlasting Life
- *Middle school students will complete the Family Life program throughout the school year. *
6th Grade Earth Science
- Metrics
- Stream Team
- Earth’s makeup
- Rocks & Minerals
- Plate Tectonics
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes
- Weathering and Soil