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Sixth Grade Curriculum
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| Language Arts |
Reading and Literature
Oral reading, Reading comprehension, Speed reading,
Vocabulary building
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 word lists
Seven poems committed to memory
Language
Writing Process
Writing, comparison/contrasts, poetry, outlines, library
research paper, narration, journal
Sentences and sentence parts
Fragments, run-ons, Punctuation and capitalization rules
Dictionary, thesaurus, and library skills
Student Writers' Handbook
Grammar
Recognizing, diagramming, and using all eight parts of
speech
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| History and Geography |
Advance map studies
Geography facts, including the 50 states
Eight documents reviewed
Exploring the New World: Land, Wildlife, and Early People
Canada; Middle America: Land of of Discoveries, South America:
Continent of Natural Resources
United States History: The Colonial Heritage, New World's First
Republic, U. S. in the Twentieth Century |
| Health |
Safety and First Aid, Growth and
Fitness
Disease and Your Defenses, Your Body and Drugs
Anatomy
Endocrine System, Circulatory System, Respiratory
System, Muscular System, Skeletal System, Lymphatic System Nervous
System, and Skin |
| Science |
Animals
Observing Invertebrates
Matter
Materials and Matter
Plants
Fruitful, Fantastic Plants
Earth and Space
Forces of the Earth, god's Great Universe, Travelers
through Space |
| Arithmetic |
Place value of whole numbers and
decimals
Maintaining skills in fundamental operations
Story problems, 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, Ratios and Proportion
Fundamental operations involving fractions and decimals
Percent, Graphs and scale drawing, Basic geometric shapes
Perimeter, area and circumference
Bisecting angles, Reading thermometers, Equations Solving
Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit and Fahrenheit to Celsius
Latitude, Longitude, and time zones
Banking, finding interest, and installment buying |
| Bible |
Lessons such as Salvation Series,
Life of Christ, Elisha, Daniel, Ezra/Nehmiah, Ester (includes
memory verses, hymns/choruses, and Bible doctrine) |
Grades:
First | Second
| Third | Fourth |
Fifth | Seventh
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