6th Grade

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