6th Grade

Language Arts

  • Critical Reading and Reading Comprehension
  • Writing Descriptive and expository
  • Public Speaking
  • Listening
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Interdisciplinary projects Themes TBD emerging out of cross-curricular connections and signature partnerships with the Arizona Humane Society and the Desert Botanical Garden

Social Studies

  • iCivics Program Year Two
  • Decision making and consensus building
  • Themes in US History from Reconstruction to the present
  • Intermediate academic research
  • Geography United States, Latin America, and Canada

Math

  • Math in Focus Grade 6 Emphasis on Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
  • Fractions and Decimals
  • Word Problems
  • Ratios
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Multiplication and division
  • Introductory Algebra concepts

Science

  • Discovery Education Middle School Science Program Year Two
  • Scientific Method
  • Intermediate lab science
  • Physical Science
  • The World Around Us

Latin

  • Intermediate Latin Instruction and Membean retention focused learning strategies

 

*Additional specialist classes in Coding, Music, Art, Drama, and Physical Education

**Co-curricular after school clubs for chess, Model United Nations, Mathcounts, and the National Geography Bee.