Sixth Grade

Meet our teacher, Mrs. Michael!

This year, our sixth grade class will be studying the following A-Beka curriculum:

Language Arts:
Reading and Literature:
Oral reading
Reading comprehension
Speed reading
Vocabulary building
Dictionary skills

Penmanship
Review of cursive writing formation
Practice penmanship through creative writing and word exercises

Spelling and Poetry:
Weekly word lists by prefixes, suffixes, and root words
Vocabulary study from the word lists
Eight poems committed to memory
Dictionary skills

Language: Writing Process:
Writing, comparison/contrasts, poetry, outlines, library research paper, narration, journal
Sentences and sentence parts
Fragments, run-ons
Punctuation and capitalization rules
Library skills
Student Writers' Handbook

Language: Grammar:
Recognizing, diagraming, and using all eight parts of speech

 

History and Geography
Advanced map studies
Geography facts, including the 50 states
Eight documents reviewed
North America: Canada, United States, Mexico, and Central America
South America: Continent of Natural Resources
Nations of South America
United States History: The Colonial Heritage, New World's First Republic, U.S. in the Twentieth Century

 

Science:
Plants
Plentiful Plants

Animals
Observing Invertebrates

Earth and Space
Our Fascinating Earth
God's Great Universe
Exploring Space

Chemistry
Matter and Chemistry (atoms, elements, and compounds)

 

Health
Safety First
First Steps of First Aid
Your Changing Body
An Active Lifestyle
Your Body's Defenses
Your Communication System
Drugs-Use and Abuse
A Healthy Spirit
Anatomy
Endocrine 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
Adding, subtracting, 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 Fahrenheit to Celsius
Equation solving
Introduction to basic algebra
Latitude, longitude, and time zones
Banking, finding interest, and installment buying
Reading electric and gas meters

 

Bible:
This year, our sixth grade will be using the following ACSI Bible curriculum:
Christ and My Life