Anyone have 6th grade planned out yet for next year?

[dancer67]

I would love to see your curriculum choices!

[Orthodox6]

Is a "work-in-progress" sketch OK ? The strongest "contenders" for next year's 6th grade are:

 

Horizon math (continuing the series)

 

Saxon Grammar -- which I gambled on this year, and was astonished by how much dd and I like this product ! I loathe Saxon math (a polite understatement), so was reluctant to try the grammar series. Boy howdy ! do we have our middle school grammar program selected !

 

Calvert art history -- sculpture (This year we are doing the painting text.)

 

Ecce Romani -- IF we shift to Latin.

 

other subjects still being settled on.

[abbeyej]

Here's what we've been doing for 6th grade this year (on week 22 now):

 

Math - Algebra: Structure and Method, book 1 (daily), continued participation in Math Olympiad (1 hour per week)

 

History - History Odyssey level 2 Middle Ages (three days per week), Famous Men of the Middle Ages (plus workbook from MP - 1 day per week)

 

Literature - Lightning Lit 7, + books from the WTM 6 reading list -- I'll include our reading list below that includes reading from HO, LL, and WTM. Also reading Building Poems (MCT) as an intro to more in-depth poetry study next year. (Reading daily, occasionally replaced by worksheets or writing assignments 2-3 days per week)

 

(Writing is incorporated into our history and literature assignments... We cover grammar in the context of writing and classical language study.)

 

Latin - Latin Prep 3 and Lingua Latina (Latin "lesson" two days per week, homework three days per week)

 

Greek - Elementary Greek 1, 2, and 3 (possible because of the amount of Latin ds already had - lesson two days per week, homework two to three days per week)

 

Logic - Critical Thinking Book 1, Art of Argument, Fallacy Detective, various games and logic puzzles from other sources (twice a week),

 

Bible - Christian Studies 1 from MP (1 day per week)

 

Science - So You Really Want to Learn Science 1 (Galore Park), and experiments from the Thames and Kosmos Core Science kit (reading and written work 1-2 days per week, lab one day per week)

 

Memory - various poems, history sentences from Classical Conversations, Living Memory, various sources.. (formally two days per week, additional review)

 

Geography - Mapping the World with Art (1 day per week)

 

Art - Meet the Masters (1 day per week -- not terribly impressed with this one, but it could be because we're using a set meant for slightly younger kids in order to include the younger kids in our two families)

 

Extras - ballet 3x per week, Boy Scouts, church choir, soccer in the fall

 

Assigned Reading list:

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children (excerpts),

Harold Bloom,

0684868741

 

The Door in the Wall,

Marguerite de Angeli,

0440227798

 

Tom Sawyer,

Mark Twain,

0670869856

 

The Trumpeter of Krakow,

Eric P. Kelly,

0689715714

 

Beowulf: a new telling,

Robert Nye,

0440905605

 

The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow,

Allen French,

1604595221

 

King Arthur and His Knights,

Malory/ Elizabeth L. Merchant,

(Calvert)

 

The Sword in the Stone,

T.H. White,

0399225021

 

The Adventures of Robin Hood,

Roger Lancelyn Green,

0140367004

 

If All the Swords of England,

Barbara Willard,

1883937493

 

Adam of the Road,

Elizabeth Gray,

0142406597

 

Crispin: Cross of Lead,

Avi,

0786816589

(Kids liked this so much they demanded the sequel immediately)

 

Catherine Called Birdy,

Karen Cushman,

0064405842

 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,

Lewis Carroll

 

Master Cornhill ,

Eloise Jarvis McGraw,

1887840001

 

The Canterbury Tales,

Chaucer / McCaughrean ,

0140380531

 

One Thousand and One Nights,

Geraldine McCaughrean,

0192750135

 

The Story of My Life,

Helen Keller,

1416500324

 

The White Stag,

Kate Seredy,

0140312587

 

Tales From Japan,

Helen and William McAlpine,

0192751751

 

The Samurai's Tale,

Erik Haugaard,

0618615121

 

A Single Shard,

Linda Sue Park,

0440418518

 

All Creatures Great and Small,

James Herriot,

0312330855

 

Secret of the Andes,

Ann Nolan Clark,

0140309268

 

Around the World in 100 Years,

Jean Fritz,

0698116380

 

The Playmaker,

J. B. Cheaney,

0440417104

 

King of Shadows,

Susan Cooper,

068984445X

 

Dante's Divine Comedy as Told for Young People (excerpts),

Joseph Tusiani,

1881901297

 

The Second Mrs. Giaconda,

E. L. Konigsburg,

0689821212

Edited February 21, 2010 by abbeyej

[JudoMom]

Here are our plans.

 

I'm 99% sure I won't be doing The Colors with the older two, but instead going with REAL Science Odyssey Earth & Space and having the older 2 do extra reading and writing.

[creekmom]

Is a "work-in-progress" sketch OK ? The strongest "contenders" for next year's 6th grade are:

 

Horizon math (continuing the series)

 

Saxon Grammar -- which I gambled on this year, and was astonished by how much dd and I like this product ! I loathe Saxon math (a polite understatement), so was reluctant to try the grammar series. Boy howdy ! do we have our middle school grammar program selected !

 

Calvert art history -- sculpture (This year we are doing the painting text.)

 

Ecce Romani -- IF we shift to Latin.

 

other subjects still being settled on.

 

 

Just curious why you love Saxon grammar so much?

[rwjx2khsmj]

Grammar - R&S

Spelling Power

Writing Strands

Draw and Write Through History

Life of Fred - Decimals & Percents

Math on the Level

Physical Science and Astronomy

SOTW2

First Form Latin/Second Form Latin

 

I know I have something down for logic but I can't remember what it is off the top of my head.

[Orthodox6]

Just curious why you love Saxon grammar so much?

 

DD often responds well to "workbook" approach.

Skills taught are reinforced in subsequent lessons.

Lesson-length and depth is "just right". (a subjective measurement, of course)

Material is reasonably "interesting", neither "dopey-fun" nor "dreary-dull".

Substance appears to be grade-appropriate, best as I can tell, compared with other language arts programs.

[Orthodox6]

Here are our plans.

 

I'm 99% sure I won't be doing The Colors with the older two, but instead going with REAL Science Odyssey Earth & Space and having the older 2 do extra reading and writing.

 

Is "Colors" on the market now ? I'll go check, as it would be a possible choice.

[JudoMom]

Is "Colors" on the market now ? I'll go check, as it would be a possible choice.

 

No, not yet. I preordered last July, thinking that it would surely be out by Fall 2010, but the last correspondence I had with them a couple of weeks ago didn't make it sound too promising. I've sent them an email to figure out how to cancel my preorder.

[HSDCY]

Language Arts--MCT grammar, vocab, and writing, Voyage level (I might have to start this sooner than planned, ds kept asking me when we can start)

Lit.--Lightning Lit 7?? not too sure about this one yet

Math--Foester Algebra I

Science--CPO earth science

History--Homemade Ancient with lots of ancient tales and historical fictions

Foreign Language--Better Chinese

Piano

Art--probably some outside classes

[sheryl]

;)

Here's what we've been doing for 6th grade this year (on week 22 now):

 

Math - Algebra: Structure and Method, book 1 (daily), continued participation in Math Olympiad (1 hour per week)

 

History - History Odyssey level 2 Middle Ages (three days per week), Famous Men of the Middle Ages (plus workbook from MP - 1 day per week)

 

Literature - Lightning Lit 7, + books from the WTM 6 reading list -- I'll include our reading list below that includes reading from HO, LL, and WTM. Also reading Building Poems (MCT) as an intro to more in-depth poetry study next year. (Reading daily, occasionally replaced by worksheets or writing assignments 2-3 days per week)

 

(Writing is incorporated into our history and literature assignments... We cover grammar in the context of writing and classical language study.)

 

Latin - Latin Prep 3 and Lingua Latina (Latin "lesson" two days per week, homework three days per week)

 

Greek - Elementary Greek 1, 2, and 3 (possible because of the amount of Latin ds already had - lesson two days per week, homework two to three days per week)

 

Logic - Critical Thinking Book 1, Art of Argument, Fallacy Detective, various games and logic puzzles from other sources (twice a week),

 

Bible - Christian Studies 1 from MP (1 day per week)

 

Science - So You Really Want to Learn Science 1 (Galore Park), and experiments from the Thames and Kosmos Core Science kit (reading and written work 1-2 days per week, lab one day per week)

 

Memory - various poems, history sentences from Classical Conversations, Living Memory, various sources.. (formally two days per week, additional review)

 

Geography - Mapping the World with Art (1 day per week)

 

Art - Meet the Masters (1 day per week -- not terribly impressed with this one, but it could be because we're using a set meant for slightly younger kids in order to include the younger kids in our two families)

 

Extras - ballet 3x per week, Boy Scouts, church choir, soccer in the fall

 

Assigned Reading list:

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children (excerpts),

Harold Bloom,

0684868741

 

The Door in the Wall,

Marguerite de Angeli,

0440227798

 

Tom Sawyer,

Mark Twain,

0670869856

 

The Trumpeter of Krakow,

Eric P. Kelly,

0689715714

 

Beowulf: a new telling,

Robert Nye,

0440905605

 

The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow,

Allen French,

1604595221

 

King Arthur and His Knights,

Malory/ Elizabeth L. Merchant,

(Calvert)

 

The Sword in the Stone,

T.H. White,

0399225021

 

The Adventures of Robin Hood,

Roger Lancelyn Green,

0140367004

 

If All the Swords of England,

Barbara Willard,

1883937493

 

Adam of the Road,

Elizabeth Gray,

0142406597

 

Crispin: Cross of Lead,

Avi,

0786816589

(Kids liked this so much they demanded the sequel immediately)

 

Catherine Called Birdy,

Karen Cushman,

0064405842

 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,

Lewis Carroll

 

Master Cornhill ,

Eloise Jarvis McGraw,

1887840001

 

The Canterbury Tales,

Chaucer / McCaughrean ,

0140380531

 

One Thousand and One Nights,

Geraldine McCaughrean,

0192750135

 

The Story of My Life,

Helen Keller,

1416500324

 

The White Stag,

Kate Seredy,

0140312587

 

Tales From Japan,

Helen and William McAlpine,

0192751751

 

The Samurai's Tale,

Erik Haugaard,

0618615121

 

A Single Shard,

Linda Sue Park,

0440418518

 

All Creatures Great and Small,

James Herriot,

0312330855

 

Secret of the Andes,

Ann Nolan Clark,

0140309268

 

Around the World in 100 Years,

Jean Fritz,

0698116380

 

The Playmaker,

J. B. Cheaney,

0440417104

 

King of Shadows,

Susan Cooper,

068984445X

 

Dante's Divine Comedy as Told for Young People (excerpts),

Joseph Tusiani,

1881901297

 

The Second Mrs. Giaconda,

E. L. Konigsburg,

0689821212

 

 

I thought I had mine planned until I saw your plans! :D Back to the drawing board I go....and I go.....and I go....;) Sheryl <><

[melmichigan]

This is still a work in progress:

 

History-SL mix of Core 7 and 100 to make it chronological

 

English-MCT Magic Lens/Word Within a Word with Online G3 or Northwestern and added components independently, looking for a writing class

 

considering adding in Lightning Lit, just unsure which or what format

 

Math-EPGY, continue with Kinetics Algebra I and move to Geometry whenever finished

 

Science- Kinetics Conceptual Physics with labs from LabPaq

 

Critical Thinking 1

 

as yet unknown electives at the middle school?

 

HWT Cursive practice, still dealing with dysgraphia

Edited February 21, 2010 by melmichigan

[swainsonshawk]

For my sixth grade boy:

 

Math: Singapore Math 5B and 6A

Writing: IEW Ancient History Writing

Reading: TOG Literature and workbook pages (drastically cut--he can't read at the pace they suggest)

History: TOG Ancients (Majorly tweaked and cut--I'm having to use this program (which is wonderful) even though it doesn't fit me--because I bought it)

Science: My Pals are Here Singapore Science 5/6. I was planning on studying Biology with my kids and so I may pull pieces from the entire program to use or we may just go through the books in order. I have to weave a 4th, 2nd and Ker in here as well)

Grammar: Winston Grammar

Usage and Mechanics: Caught 'ya Grammar with a Giggle

Handwriting: continuing cursive copywork

Spelling: Phonetic Zoo--we'll see if I can afford this!

Poetry Memorization from IEW. Maybe.

[melmichigan]

Is "Colors" on the market now ? I'll go check, as it would be a possible choice.

 

I have an order in to play around with it and see if I can adapt it with my younger kids. My last email said a July release, but it can be cancelled anytime before shipping so we will see.

[Orthodox6]

Foerster's Algebra I for grade 6 ?! That is one rough textbook !

 

 

 

 

Math--Foester Algebra I

s

[HSDCY]

Foerster's Algebra I for grade 6 ?! That is one rough textbook !

 

The first 4 chapters is going to be review for him, then we'll take it slow. He's done Chalkdust pre-algebra and did very well. We are doing reviews now until the end of the school year. Hopefully he will mature enough in these months to handle Foerster in September. If not, I'll have to think about something else.

[dancer67]

Oh boy I better get moving with my planning. Some of you have some heavy stuff! But I like seeing choices others are doing as it gives me some ideas. Thank you for sharing, and keep them coming:D

[Alyeska]

For sixth, here is our lineup.

 

MFW Creation to the Greeks

Hake (Saxon) Grammar and Writing 6

Christian Kids Explore Chemistry (in addition to MFW science)

Vocabulary from Classical Roots

Spelling Power

Daily Warm-ups: Logic

Literature will be chosen from MFW's book basket list.

Edited to add: for math, I have NO IDEA! Lol!

 

I am excited. This will be our first year of MFW.

Edited February 21, 2010 by Alyeska
left something out

[Another Lynn]

Fun! I think this is the 2nd time I've posted 6th grade plans (but they've already changed!) and I'm sure it won't be the last :D

 

Bible - BSF's Isaiah study and VP Gospel cards (to keep us in both OT and NT)

History - Diana Waring's Romans, Reformers, and Revolutionaries

Lit - a list of Middle Ages reading, and maybe a Logos Upper Grammar Lit Guide to make him slow down on a couple books, and either Figuratively Speaking or Logos Poetry Primer - but not all at the same time.

LA - Yikes! this is where I just don't know yet... SWO, CLE LA, and ???? for writing? (CW? or Lost Tools of Writing?) and I'll probably look at MCT in Cincy just to confuse myself :) Oh, yeah, and depending on what I pick I may need a resource for outlining? (CW-Homer w/Harvey is appealing just because it covers everything and I can stop wondering if I'm covering all the pieces/parts - ah, but would I be chucking it out the window by October?)

Science - Rainbow (maybe)

Math - CLE

Logic - Art of Argument?

Latin - Latin Prep (maybe)

Competitive Chess

Piano Lessons

Typing?

[swellmomma]

Keeping in mind the kids are behind in a couple areas here is my tentative plan for grade 6 next year:

 

Math: MUS Delta, Horizons 4, and other suppl items like hands on standards

Grammar: ds- R&S4 dd- MCT Grammar Town

Lit: SL core 4 and core 100

Spelling: ds- SWO E-G dd- possibly AAS level 1

Writing: Meaningful Comp 4 (II) and 5 (I) plus weekly reports on a topic of my chosing. ds- will also do wwe 3 as he needs to keep working on his narration and dictation skills.

Vocab: MCT Caesar's English I

Poetry: MCT building poems

Science: SL sci 4, and sci 5

History: SL core 4, 1/2 of core 100 and Canadian history

Geography: Our home and native land (Canadian geography) as well as Our World(same publisher as the other one)

French: Mission Monde 2

Greek: Hey Andrew level 2

Latin: Latina Christiane 1

Bible: Christian studies 2 and SL bible 110

Logic: Perplexors, logic links, and analogies

Art: Artistic pursuits 2, Child sized masterpieces steps 4 and 5, and other various projects

Music: ds- drums, dd- violin, both- piano PLUS Beautiful Feet history of classical music

Home ec: Home ec for homeschooler's levels 2 and 3

Character: ds- boyhood and beyond and lessons in responsibility for boys level 1; dd- beautiful girlhood

Typing: Typing instructor for kids

Memory work: Harp and Laurel wreath

Penmanship: ds-A reason for handwriting E dd- HWOT can-do cursive (this will likely be our last year doing penmanship)

Copywork: Will be from Queen's homeschool, not sure what books yet. PLus they have copywork books in both latin and greek.

Edited February 21, 2010 by swellmomma

[dancer67]

This is a tentative plan

 

Language Arts: MCT Grammar Town, all components

Lit: Maybe LL gr 7 or Classics in the Classroom

Math: CLE

Science: CPO Earth Science

History/Geography: SOTW4

Health: Total Health for middle school

Logic: Mind Benders

Latin: Finish Great Latin Adventures

Edited February 27, 2010 by dancer67

[Matryoshka]

We're doing 6th this year.

 

Math: Singapore 6a/b, CWP, Math Detective, Code Breakers

LA: MCT Town level (Grammar/writing/vocab/poetry), Editor in Chief

Lit: May or may not get to Short story unit w/ Jamestown or Mosdos

(had planned book club w/ Teaching the Classics, but it disbanded :()

Science: CPO Life Science, Science Detective

History: K12 Human Odyssey (okay, we're just about to start this, but I'd planned to get to this earlier in 6th :tongue_smilie:), World in Ancient Times

Geography: Map Skills through World History

Spanish: Spanish the Easy Way

German: Sat. School

Logic: Grid & Venn Perplexors

Art: Outside class

Music: dd1: violin & orchestra, dd2: piano, both: chorus

[Brindee]

This is what my dd did for 6th grade last year. I wrote this somewhere else and forgot a couple of things. Here's the complete list:

 

Math: LoF Decimals & Percents, LoF Fractions, Singapore 5A & 5B

English: R&S 5

Literature: Lightning Lit. 7

History: All American History, Year 1

Science: NOEO Chemistry + extra experiments

Foreign Languages: Visual Link Spanish and Sign Language

Music: Piano Lessons

Handwriting: Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting, Book F

Art: Variety

Plus LOTS of outside reading, though not all classics!

 

 

Maybe not as detailed as some, but we had a great year!

Edited February 22, 2010 by Brindee

[Quiver0f10]

My 6th grader is using the following this year:

 

Chalkdust basic math

Apologia general Science

TOG II

R&S English 6

IEW medieval Wriring Lessons

SWR

Henle

[Kim in SouthGa]

For my dd who will be 11 and in 6th:

Horizons Math (finish 5, move on to 6)

still deciding on Grammar, Growing or Grammar Ace??

IEW Ancients

SWO

Wordly Wise

HWT last cursive book

Abeka Read & Think Skills

Literature ala WTM

Lively Latin

BiblioPlan Ancients

Science??????? Probably God's Design for Chemistry because I already have it.

Perplexors, maybe Critical Thinking book

art and music with free resources (library, internet) and stuff I have at home, maybe some art lessons

ballet

[Faithr]

Here's our tentative plans:

 

Math - Saxon 7/6 plus some Life of Fred and any other fun supplements I come up with as the year goes by.

Science - either SL science for Core 4 or we might do an on line science projects course from a Catholic on line program. I'm letting the kids pick. He'll be doing this with his 4th grade sister.

History - for our Modern stream I think we'll be doing Sonlight Core 4 (2nd half of American history)

History - Ancients - I'll be reading aloud a lot about Rome - this will be a continuation of our summer read alouds.

Literature/LA - Sonlight Core 4, using their IG for writing and Sequential Spelling

Logic/thinking skills - Building Thinking Skills software - I'm starting this over the summer, I think. He needs help with the figural stuff due to his vision issues (he's just finishing up 2.5 years of vision therapy).

Latin - Latin for Children B

Greek - we've been dabbling in a relaxed way in Greek - I might do Song School Greek just to keep it up and keep it light. We hope to go Rome and Athens over Christmas so we might foray into modern Greek a la one of those tourist language books.

Religion/Bible - not sure yet! We are Catholic so SL doesn't really fit there. Maybe continue with Faith and Life Books and just reading daily scripture.

Music - he is currently taking piano lessons and has for several years but he seems to be losing his love for it. So I might let him have a year off. I did this for his older brother and it worked well because the older one came back to music on his own and is very impassioned about it.

PE - tennis lessons in fall and spring, something else in the winter. We didn't do anything this winter and I can't stand it. We need structured exercise time!

Art - this kid does art all on his own.

[RobynN]

Here's our 6th grade plan for my daughter next year.

 

The (F) is our family classes. The rest are 1:1 or independent.

 

Bible - (F) Finish SCM Module 2 - Joshua - Malachi (Ancient Greece)

(F) Start SCM Module 3 - Matthews - Acts, Romans (Ancient Rome)

HOD - Preparing Hearts for His Glory

 

History - (F) Guesthollow American History 1

(F) 50 States Study & Texas History

HOD - Preparing Hearts for His Glory

 

Geography - HOD - Preparing Hearts for His Glory

 

Science - HOD Preparing Hearts for His Glory , Will add something else to this.

 

Math - Finish Mastering Mathematics , Calculadders , Start LOF or and/or other math program.

 

Grammar- BJ English 6

 

Spelling/ Vocabulary - Apples and Pears, Megawords & Vocab. Cartoons, HOD

 

Reading - TBD for curriculum, reading list planned for the year

 

Literature - Harry Potter (undecided on which lesson plans to use)

 

Logic - TBD

 

Writing- Writing Strands 4 & 5, various writing assignments, will probably add to this

 

Copy work - HOD - Preparing Hearts for His Glory, Math Facts

 

Narration (oral & written) - HOD - Preparing Hearts for His Glory, various assignments

 

Poetry - HOD - Preparing Hearts for His Glory

 

Character Study - HOD - Preparing Hearts for His Glory, looking to add to this

 

Foreign Language - (F) Prima Latina

 

Shakespeare - (F) TBD

 

Picture Study - (F) Discovering Great Artists, unit studies I plan unless I find a curriculum

 

Composer Study - (F) Themes to Remember vol. 1, unit studies I plan unless I find a curriculum

 

Art/ Crafts - HOD - Preparing Hearts for His Glory, Various sources

[SilverMoon]

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Edited April 21, 2023 by SilverMoon

[elegantlion]

This is what we are using this year for 6th:

 

Latin - LFC B

Math - mix of Dolciani pre-algebra and starting LOF pre-algebra next week

Writing - a mix of things including CW Homer (which we had to step away from for a while) Paragraph Writing made easy, starting Igniting your Writing next week. (February seems to be our stop and reassess month)

Grammar - R&S English 6 (grammar portions only)

History - FMoMA with The Story of the Middle Ages by Harding

Science - 1st semester: Science Matters 2nd semester: biology/anatomy

Religion - Proverbs study, hope to get to Psalms this year as well

Music - beginning theory with Alfred's Music Theory and trumpet

Art - Art Talk textbook with misc projects

Lit - King Arthur, Canterbury Tales, & Robin Hood

Reading - Assigned reading

[Heather in VA]

This is still a work in progress:

 

History-SL mix of Core 7 and 100 to make it chronological

 

English-MCT Magic Lens/Word Within a Word with Online G3 or Northwestern and added components independently, looking for a writing class

 

considering adding in Lightning Lit, just unsure which or what format

 

Math-EPGY, continue with Kinetics Algebra I and move to Geometry whenever finished

 

Science- Kinetics Conceptual Physics with labs from LabPaq

 

Critical Thinking 1

 

as yet unknown electives at the middle school?

 

HWT Cursive practice, still dealing with dysgraphia

 

Can you tell me more about the LabPaq stuff?

 

Thanks

Heather

[jubulibee]

We'll be using the following for my ds 6th grader:

 

Math - Moving with Math 6

History - WinterPromise American Culture (Later American History) OR Guest Hollow's American History 2

Language Arts - Easy Grammar 6, Total Language Plus 6 OR maybe WP's LA 6

Bible - We do our own thing

Science - Noeo Chemistry 2

Spanish - Rosetta Stone

 

Of course, this is all subject to change!

[Daisy]

Here's how our 6th grade year is shaping up.

 

History:

Truthquest History Middle Ages/Reformation

Kingfisher World & DK History: Definitive Visual Guide (done WTM style)

Peril & Peace, Monks & Mystics, Courage & Conviction (Church History)

Tons of assigned reading

 

Science:

1st semester: Apologia Astronomy w/notebook

2nd semester: Geology Book from AIG & study of Evolution vs. Creation

A lot of science kits.

 

Language Arts:

English – R&S English 6

Spelling – Spelling Power (currently using) or Spelling Workout

Vocabulary – Megawords

Writing - Content Writing.

Reading – Assigned List w/Reading Response Journal (mostly WTM recommendations)

 

Math: Singapore Math 5A/5B, Life of Fred – Fractions/Decimals

 

Logic: Building Thinking Skills 2

 

Bible: CLP Studying God’s Word F

 

Foreign Language: Bluedorn Greek

 

Art/Music: Artist/Composer in history content or Harmony Art.

 

Shakespeare: No Fear Henry V and Midsummer Night's Dream

[Melabella]

This is what I have planned so far. Of course, it is still early and subject to change.

 

Math - CLE 700

Science - CPO Earth and Space + Plato Earth Science online + Thames and Kosmos kit(s)

History/Lit/Geography/Fine Arts - TOG Y2 Dialectic w/additional literature from WTM lists

Language Arts - MCT Town or Voyage + Sequential Spelling Book 3 + assignments from IEW Middle Ages

Foreign Language - undecided

Logic - BTS 3 Verbal + Critical Thinking

Philosophy for Kids

Other: outside music and art lessons, soccer, tennis

Edited February 22, 2010 by Melabella

[StephanieZ]

Pretty Definitely Planned for next year's 6th grader::

 

History & Reading: SL 7

English: MCT Voyage Level (all books)

Spelling: SWO G

Math: Thinkwell Intermediate Algebra

Science: SYRWTL Science 1 & Thames & Kosmos Chem kit, along with Prentice Hall Explorer Chemistry titles

Spanish: SYRWTL Spanish (second half of 1, first 1/4 of 2)

Guitar: lessons, etc

 

 

Also considering, depending on how the above plan fleshes out:

Critical Thinking 1

IEW Middle Ages

[Donna T.]

Our plan for 6th grade:

 

His main curriculum will be Heart of Dakota's (HOD) Creation to Christ.

 

Math: MathUSee Epsilon/Zeta

Greek: Hey Andrew, Teach Me Some Greek 3

Spelling: Studied dictation using HOD's Dictation Day by Day lists

Grammar: Rod & Staff English 5

Writing: Exercises in R&S 5 plus Write With the Best

Vocabulary: HOD includes vocabulary exercises. We'll be adding a focus on Latin Roots, not sure if we will continue with English from the Roots Up or add a workbook, perhaps Vocabulary from Classical Roots.

Reading: HOD's Drawn Into the Heart of Reading

Poetry: HOD - Will be focusing on Robert Frost and doing creative writing exercises based on his poetry, also some art related to his poetry

Bible: HOD - Main resources will be Genesis Finding Our Roots and The Geography of the Bible Lands, study and memorize portion of Philippians

History: HOD - Ancient History with HOD's Creation to Christ, using The Story of the Ancient World and the Bible as the main spines.

Science: HOD's Biology

Critical Thinking: MindBenders and Red Herrings series.

Art: He will continue developing his drawing skills and reading books of his own choosing on art techniques and artists, using Draw and Write Through History: Greece and Rome as part of his history lessons with HOD.

Spanish - Rosetta Stone Spanish and Getting Started With Spanish

Violin lessons - 30 minutes a week

Edited February 22, 2010 by Donna T.

[karensk]

Chalkdust Basic Math 6 and first part of Singapore Math PM-6A

SWO-G and first half of SWO-H

R&S 5 (second half)

Wordly Wise 3

TOG Yr 2 Units 1 & 2 - Dialectic

BJU Life Science (outsourced homeschool class)

[MSNative]

I'm busy planning, but HELP! I cannot see how we're going to fit it all in. My plans look like many of yours - half a page listing just the subjects and curricula choices - not including independent reading and reading aloud together. I would love to see what weekly/daily plans y'all have developed.

TIA

[abbeyej]

I'm busy planning, but HELP! I cannot see how we're going to fit it all in. My plans look like many of yours - half a page listing just the subjects and curricula choices - not including independent reading and reading aloud together. I would love to see what weekly/daily plans y'all have developed.

TIA

 

Here's a sample week from ds' planner:

It's missing Christian Studies, but we just ended up having ds do all of his Famous Men reading and workbook on one day and Christian Studies reading and workbook on the other day instead of splitting FM up as it is in that chart. The gray sections are "class" times with the other family with whom we school part time. The kids write down their Latin and Greek homework from class time on the lines below... Poetry is done informally when we have time at the end of Greek or Latin class, and homework is rare for that.

[prairiegirl]

I finalized my plans for my oldest's Gr. 6 year last week.

 

Here is what we will be doing:

 

MUS Epsilon/ Lof Decimals/Percents

Mother Tongue Bk II (grammar)

CW Homer B/ Poetry for Beginners

Henle

Ancient History a la WTM

Science--I think I will piece together something on my own

AO Yr. 6 for Literature and poetry memorization

[Soph the vet]

Here's a sample week from ds' planner:

.

 

Did you create this planner yourself? If not, where did you get it?

[lovemykids]

Tentative plans: 6th ;)

 

Literature: SL books, approved free library choices, and AO (in addition, possibly Figuratively Speaking or my own literary analysis program), My Book House books (LOVE these)

Spelling: Megawords, Spelling Plus, dictation

Vocabulary: VFCR (she loves this) may add Shurley wordlist, and have her pull her own words out of AO lit

Latin: Getting Started with Latin

Spanish: SYRWTL

Writing: (undecided) two or more of the following - Writeshop?, WTM writing, IEW themed program, MCT??

Grammar: Shurley

History SL 3+4, SL 5 secular, Middle Ages- various books

Geography: Trail Guide to Geo- tentative

Science: Carbon Chemistry, TOPS, and interest led studies

(also history of science-The Story of Science and Thames and Kosmos Milestones science kit)

Bible: three books in addition to our regular Bible studies and magazines w/ the Bible

Art: Artistic Pursuits (all), Meet the Masters –tentatively, The Master Piece Collection cd

Music: our own piano, possibly viola…

PE: some tennis, swimming in the summer, work out Pilates blend with me

Philosophy/logic: KOGS or LOF logic (if it’s out)

Math: TT Pre-Algebra and LOF

:001_smile:

[lovemykids]

Did you create this planner yourself? If not, where did you get it?

 

It looks like she made it. :bigear:

[Pongo]

History: Biblioplan 4 w/ All Through the Ages

 

Literature: Lightening Literature 7

 

Science: Second 1/2 of Apologia (We are doing it over 2 years)

 

English: CLE600 grammar only/ Fix it! (editing)

 

Vocabulary: Vocabulary from Classical Roots 6

 

Spelling: Apples Book 2 (she tested out of SWR..yippeee!!)

 

Writing: IEW

 

Reading: Assigned List from BP & Teaching the Classics (supplement)

 

Math: BJU 7 Fundamentals (Review)/Chalkdust Pre-Alg, Art of Problem Solving

 

Logic: Intermediate Logic ( first 1/2)

 

Bible: CLP Studying God’s Word F

 

Foreign Language: Elementary Spanish

 

Art/Music: Meet the Masters @ Home Online Art Program/Piano Lessons

 

PE: Club Soccer/Town travel soccer/swimming

Edited February 24, 2010 by Pongo

[abbeyej]

Did you create this planner yourself? If not, where did you get it?

 

It's just made in Word. :) I like to see a week at a glance, and I'm apparently incapable of following anyone else's directions/recipe/pattern. ;o)

[AuntPol]

Literature: LL7 and Prairie Primer

Additional Reading: DITHOR For Free choice and one historical fiction or biography book a month

Poetry: MCT town level

 

Composition: MCT paragraph

Grammar/VOcabulary: MCT Town

Spelling: SRW (should finish book)

 

Latin: Finish LFC A and start LFC B

Spanish: Finish Elementary Spanish grade 4/5

 

Math: Singapore 5B and 6A;

Logic: Orbiting with Logic

Science: The Elements and Carbon Chemistry

Health: Continue working on various Scout badges

 

History: Ambleside Year 5 and one current event a week

Geography: Country of the Month studies and travel channel shows

Citizenship: Elements of a civil education

 

Music: Composer Studies; worship team -would like to do an instrument but no real interest

Art: Art Narrations; maybe an outside class (or Atelier or Artistic Pursuits-not sure yet)

PE: Soccer, swimming, historical swordsmanship

Other: continue Musical Theatre and dance classes (Broadway dance and lithurgical hip hop); Scouts, two worship teams and student leadership team at church, Odyssey of the Mind, plus Co-Op. Plus whatever fun classes and things pop up through wildlife organization, parks, etc. Undecided on whether to continue horseback riding lessons.

 

Fridays are "Fun Fridays"

Language Arts: Druidawn, Mad libs or Boggle, etc

Math: Life of Fred Pre-Algebra

Science: Nature walk and study

History: Movie or project or field trip

Computer day: typing drills (can already type so just practice), math game, online map drills

And/or Co-Op on 16 of the weeks.

Edited March 8, 2010 by AuntPol

[radiobrain]

I am quite close to figuring this out.... let's see how it looks broken down. This is with both my kids, which I consider will be 5-7th depending on.. whatever...;)

 

Singapore 5B-6B, LOF pre-algebra, misc.

 

MCT Voyage level (all components)

 

Lightning Lit 7 plus whatever I assign/ they want to do

 

Spellbound/ Megawords

 

CPO life science

 

History at our House: US History

 

Mapping the world with Art

 

If I can get to it "Excavating English"

 

Rosetta Stone Italian + reading from Italian middle school textbooks and comics

 

I must be missing SOMETHING... but this seems reasonable. I think.

[corbie]

So far, and this is very tentative

 

History, geography, literature, arts: TOG Y3 dialectic

Math: Lial's BCM and LOF pre-Algebra

Science: Apologia cont. w/ elementary or start General

Writing: Thinking of Writing Aids from TOG

Spelling: need ideas

Grammar: looking at Analytical Grammar or Growing with Grammar

Music: violin and piano

Latin: Lively Latin 2

What did I forget?

[lovemykids]

Here's what we've been doing for 6th grade this year (on week 22 now):

 

 

 

 

Logic - Critical Thinking Book 1, Art of Argument, Fallacy Detective, various games and logic puzzles from other sources (twice a week),

 

 

Love this! You are doing all three?? Hmm.

[lovemykids]

So far, and this is very tentative

 

History, geography, literature, arts: TOG Y3 dialectic

Math: Lial's BCM and LOF pre-Algebra

Science: Apologia cont. w/ elementary or start General

Writing: Thinking of Writing Aids from TOG

Spelling: need ideas

Grammar: looking at Analytical Grammar or Growing with Grammar

Music: violin and piano

Latin: Lively Latin 2

What did I forget?

 

Art? Nevermind, I see you've got that covered w/TOG??

looks good! :)

[corbie]

Lovemykids - I don't really use a paricular curriculum for art since I was an art teacher in my previous life before kids. I wasn't a ps teacher. I have a BFA and taught at a museum. I kind of take art for granted as part of our life.

 

Thanks for looking.