SIXTH GRADE

 

 

Language
Arts

Reading and Literature

Language

Speed reading

Oral reading

Reading comprehension

Vocabulary building

 

Penmanship

Review of cursive writing

Practice penmanship through creative writing and word exercises

 

Writing Process

Sentences and sentence parts

Punctuation and capitalization rules

Fragments, run-ons

Dictionary, thesaurus, and library skills

Writing, comparison/contrasts, poetry, outlines, library Research paper, narration, journal Student Writers’ Handbook

 

 

Spelling and Poetry

Grammar

 

Weekly word lists by prefixes, suffixes, and root words

Vocabulary study from the word lists

Recognizing, diagramming and using a all eight parts of speech

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History
and

Geography

Eight documents reviewed

Geography facts including the 50 states

Advanced map studies

North America: Land of New Frontiers

Canada

United States

Mexico and Central America

 

South America: Continent of Infinite Variety

United States History: The Colonial Heritage,

New World’s First Republic, U.S. in the Twentieth Century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science

Matter
Animals
Earth and Space

Materials and matter (atoms, Elements, and compounds)

Observing invertebrates

Structure of the Earth

God’s Great Universe

Exploring Space
 

Plants

Plentiful plants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health

Safety First
 
Anatomy

 

First Steps of First Aid

Your changing body

An active lifestyle

Your body’s defenses

Drugs – use and abuse

A healthy spirit

 

Endocrine System

Circulatory System

Respiratory System

Muscular System

Skeletal System

Lymphatic System

Nervous System

Skin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arithmetic

Place value of whole numbers and decimals

Maintaining skills in fundamental operations

Story problems/Problem-solving strategies

Roman numerals

Rounding off

English and metric measures

Converting measures within the same system and solving measurement equations

Addition, subtraction, and multiplying measures

Prime factoring

Fundamental operations involving fractions and decimals

Estimation

 

Ratios and proportion

Percent

Probability

Graphs and scale drawing/Introduction to statistics

Basic geometric shapes

Perimeter, area, and circumference

Bisecting angles

Reading thermometers

Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit and from Fahrenheit to Celsius

Equation solving/Introduction to basic algebra

Latitude, longitude, and time zones

Banking, finding interest, and installment buying

Bible

 

 

Religions of the World

Life of Christ

Applying Christian principles to everyday life

 

 

 

 

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