Teacher:
Mrs. Sarah Oliver
At NCA sixth grade is the end of elementary school and a window to junior high. A lot emphasis will be placed on increasing your child's proficiency in basic skills, learning to be more independent and self responsible. This is a major transition year, from child to young teen. They will need your guidance, love and encouragement as they overcome all of the self-esteem issues that arise at this age, new emotions and social interactions.
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•Identify major chronological events in history, as well as find the areas studied in history on maps and globes.
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•Understand our legacy from ancient and early civilizations.
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•Understand and perform all operations for rational numbers.
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•Write, simplify, and manipulate expressions and equations in all areas of problem solving, including ratios, proportions, geometry, statistics, and probability.
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•Use all stages of the writing process (organizing, drafting, revising, and editing.
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•Write essays, reports, letters, stories, and poems.
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•Set up and conduct simple scientific experiments.
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•Understand the concepts of gravity, motion, energy, chemical compounds, the ecosystem, fossils, heredity, weather, and the classification of matter.
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•Compose reports by using word processing skills.
Key Goals:
For details about the curriculum please see the “Scope and Sequence” below.
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