Sixth Grade Curriculum

List of 8 items.

• Language Arts

  • Literature-based program using fiction, short stories, novels, and poetry
  • Literary and story elements
  • Vocabulary Workshop
  • Formal composition writing, emphasis on well-constructed paragraphs
  • Accelerated Reader 

• Mathematics

  • Operation with whole numbers, decimals, and percent concepts
  • Simple probability
  • Variables and exponents
  • Geometric concepts
  • Statistical analysis
  • Operations and integers
  • Solving simple equations

• Science

  Life Science

  • Life iScience (Glencoe/McGraw Hill) - science curriculum
  • Science safety
  • Scientific method and skills
  • Needs of living things
  • Cells, tissues, and organs
  • Classification of organisms
  • Simple organisms
  • Invertebrates and vertebrates
  • Plant structure and function
  • Human body
  • Science lab activities

• Social Studies

  World Geography:
  

  • Geography and map skills
  • Study of continents and various countries within each continent  (Cultures, history, government, economy, and environmental issues)

• Spanish

  
  

  • Navigando 1  - Spanish curriculum, high school Spanish I
  • Basic grammar, conversational structures, pronunciation, and vocabulary
  • Development of oral and written communication skills
  • Cultures of Spain and Latin America

• Health

  All sixth graders take one semester of health where they learn about making good choices for a healthy life style.

• Technology

  • Keyboarding
  • Google Apps 
  • Digital citizenship

  
  
  

• Physical Education

  • Team Athletics - Soccer, Volleyball, Tennis, Basketball, Softball, Cross Country, Golf
  • Track and Field
  • Cooperative Activities 
  • Physical fitness - mile run