For sixth grade I will be using a lot of the book suggestions from Ambleside Online Year 6. He will be joining us for family school subjects as well as a study of the constitution. Twice monthly he will meet with his Knights of Freedom group, they are learning about the history of flight this year so that will have a separate book list, along with field trips and activities. Here is the curriculum plan for my sixth grader this year.
Personal Scripture Study
 Big Man will be using this study/activity guide as he reads from the Old Testament |  Read and mark your scriptures online. We also use the online study notebook at lds.org. |  Guidelines for keeping youth morally clean and on the straight and narrow path. |  Listen, watch or read General Conference messages. |  Prepare to be a missionary |
Language Arts
This is my child that has struggled with spelling, writing and grammar from the beginning. It was through him that we have been through so many programs and finally found what worked for our family. I love First Language Lessons because they don't go by an age they go by what level the child is capable of. For this year my sixth grader will be working on level four of both Language Lessons and Writing with Ease. He will also be doing daily personal journal entries, notebooking pages for his reading narrations and All About Spelling levels 4 and 5. Copywork will come from Discover the Scriptures Old Testament and the Homes School in the Woods history curriculum below.
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Math
I have used and loved MathUSee since I first began homeschooling. This year Big Man will be finishing up Delta and moving on to Epsilon. As I mentioned in my third grade post, the child only moves on when he has mastered the skills from the lesson/book. Sometimes he may move ahead quickly and sometimes he may be stuck on a lesson for a couple of weeks. Moving at the child's pace will help him be confident and successful.
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Poetry
These are the poets of interest for year 6. I like to have the child research each poet at the beginning of the term and fill out a notebooking page on each one. We keep a running notebook of each poet they have studied throughout the years.
Literature
After each reading or listening from these literature books Big Man will be giving me a narration. It may be by notebooking page, orally, or using some of these narration ideas.
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History
History is this child's love, along with math. If he could sit and study the past all day, he would be in heaven. In fact he asks all the time if he could skip language arts and just read and do history and science all the time (who wouldn't). This is a transition year where he will be going from finishing up modern times and move back to the beginning with the Old Testament and Ancient Rome and Greece. It should be an exciting year for him. I also like to start a good study on the constitution at this age so we will be using the Proclaim Liberty study guide and work on it together.
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Geography
Along with the family school country study, my sixth grader will be reading and tracking, through maps and notebooking pages, these living geography books.
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Science
In addition to the family study of Exploring Creation with Botany, my sixth grader will be reading these living books on Science.
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Reading Book List
This is my sixth grader's list of books he needs to read or listen to before the next school year. The numbers next to the book indicate what term the book will go along with the time period he is learning in history and the L indicates I can get it from my library. All of the classics are available online to read or listen to.
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawks (1) L
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia – Esther Hautzig (1) L
The Winged Watchman – Hilda Van Stockham (1)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor (1 racism in th 30’s) L
Blue Willow – Doris Gates (1 dust bowl story) L
Miracles on Maple Hill (1 depression era) L
Letters from Rifka – Karen Hesse (1 jewish immigrant post WWII) L
Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Martyred Missionary to Ecuador – Russel T. Hilt (1)
The Von Trapp Family Singers – Maria VonTrapp (1)
Snow Treasure – Marie McSwigan (1 Norwegian during WWII) L
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry (1 WWII Danish efforts to save Jews)
The Ark – Margot Benary-Isbert (1 WWII refugee family)
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Adventures of Huckleberry Fin – Mark Twain
Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
Jack and Jill – Louisa May Alcott
The Cricket on the Hearth – Charles Dickens
The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann Wyss
Call of the Wild – Jack London
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Robinson Crusoe
Penrod – Booth Tarkington
A Little Brother to the Bear – William J. Long
The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth Speare (3) L
God’s Smuggler – Brother Andrew and John Sherrill L
Ben Hur – Lew Wallace (2 and 3)
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawks (1) L
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia – Esther Hautzig (1) L
The Winged Watchman – Hilda Van Stockham (1)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor (1 racism in th 30’s) L
Blue Willow – Doris Gates (1 dust bowl story) L
Miracles on Maple Hill (1 depression era) L
Letters from Rifka – Karen Hesse (1 jewish immigrant post WWII) L
Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Martyred Missionary to Ecuador – Russel T. Hilt (1)
The Von Trapp Family Singers – Maria VonTrapp (1)
Snow Treasure – Marie McSwigan (1 Norwegian during WWII) L
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry (1 WWII Danish efforts to save Jews)
The Ark – Margot Benary-Isbert (1 WWII refugee family)
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Adventures of Huckleberry Fin – Mark Twain
Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
Jack and Jill – Louisa May Alcott
The Cricket on the Hearth – Charles Dickens
The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann Wyss
Call of the Wild – Jack London
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Robinson Crusoe
Penrod – Booth Tarkington
A Little Brother to the Bear – William J. Long
The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth Speare (3) L
God’s Smuggler – Brother Andrew and John Sherrill L
Ben Hur – Lew Wallace (2 and 3)
Now that I have planned what each child will be learning, the tricky part is in the scheduling it all together.
