Happy New Year, Sixth Grade!
Welcome back to school! Here's a look at what sixth graders will be studying this winter.
Math
We will continue with our fraction and percent unit. Students will be adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. They will be calculating percents as they figure out tax, discounts, and interest. They will be exploring ratios.
Reading
We will begin a nonfiction and historical fiction unit about refugees. We will seek to answer questions like, "What makes someone risk everything?" "What influences how a refugee is received?" and "What does it mean to welcome your neighbor?" Students will read about and discuss refugee experiences around the world.
Writing
We will begin preparing for the memoir unit thorough essay writing. Students will write about a person who has impacted them. They will recall stories and organize them into an essay that honors their chosen role model.
Social Studies
Math
We will continue with our fraction and percent unit. Students will be adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. They will be calculating percents as they figure out tax, discounts, and interest. They will be exploring ratios.
Reading
We will begin a nonfiction and historical fiction unit about refugees. We will seek to answer questions like, "What makes someone risk everything?" "What influences how a refugee is received?" and "What does it mean to welcome your neighbor?" Students will read about and discuss refugee experiences around the world.
Writing
We will begin preparing for the memoir unit thorough essay writing. Students will write about a person who has impacted them. They will recall stories and organize them into an essay that honors their chosen role model.
Social Studies
What makes a human being human? What features of the way of life of modern humans before 10,000 years ago paved the way for the emergence of the complex societies, or civilizations? What makes our species so different? These are some of the questions we will be exploring in social studies this term as we study the time period from when homo sapiens emerged to the beginning of the agricultural revolution.
Science
In this term, students will explore our Solar System and the different planetary bodies that are part of it. They will then go beyond our Solar System to investigate our galaxy and galaxies in general and finally the Universe as a whole.