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Classroom Pages
Sixth Grade
Curriculum
Religion (Harcourt)
- Review all 7 Sacraments, Mass Responses, Catholic Traditions, and Prayers
- Family Life using the Benzinger Series
- Planning, leading, and participating in Masses, Stations of the Cross, Rosary, and
other Roman Catholic traditions throughout the year
- Old and New Testament
Math (Saxon)
- Continuous Progress and Spiraling Curriculum
- Mastery of facts using timed tests
- Mental Math using a variety of strategies
- Daily lessons
- Test every 5 lessons
- Lessons styled so Parents can help
- Geometry, Algebra, Fractions, Decimals, and Percents taught throughout
the year!
Language Arts (Novel Units and Harcourt Brace)
- Theme based literature
- Comprehension, creative writing, vocabulary, poetry
- Parts of Speech
- Creative Writing
- Impromptu, Persuasive, Informative, Demonstrative, and Storytelling Speeches
- Rebecca Sitton spelling, reviewing Phonics and Spelling Skills while mastering
6th grade level words with both tests and in daily writing
- Novel Units, activities, projects, group learning
Social Studies (Harcourt Brace)
- Continents: Exploring land, people, cultures, traditions and government
- Integrated projects and literature
- Daily Geography and map skills
- Research and note-taking skills
- Main Ideas and details
- Cause and effect
Science (Harcourt Brace)
- Earth Science
- Oceanography
- Living Things
- Zoology and Botany
- Environmental Studies
- Human Body
Many hands-on experiments, reports and projects
Art
- Weekly projects using a variety of mediums
- Art work encouraged during daily work as well
Homework
A sixth grade student at Most Holy Trinity should expect to have
approximately 60 minutes of homework each night.
Supply List
- 2 packages of #2 pencils
- Pencil tip erasers
- 2 red pens
- 2 other blue or black pens (no gel pens)
- 2 separate spiral wide-lined notebooks
- 1 5x7 notebook (small journal size) of 80 pages or more
- 1 glossy coated or plastic pocket folder in each of the following colors: green,
blue, yellow, red and 2 others of your choice
- 1 pair of medium sized scissors
- 1 - 24 count box of crayons
- 2 boxes Crayola markers - 1 Classic and 1 of your choice
- 3 packages of wide-lined looseleaf paper
- 1 "Composition Book" (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 wide ruled w/black marbled cover #09910)
- 2 Highlighters
- 1 pencil pouch or small box
- 2 pkg 4x6 lined index cards
- 2 boxes of Kleenex
- 4 stretchy book covers
- 1 large container or Clorox wipes (or 2 small)
- $7.00 to bring in the first day of school to cover the cost of assignment notebooks
for the year.
No Trapper Keepers, please.
Thanks!
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