Complete List of Resources for 6th Grade Note: We generally recommend searching Ebay for great deals on used items, or Amazon for new ones. BibleHoly Bible, NASB or ESV versions recommendedHolman Bible AtlasA House for My Name (Peter Leithart)Jesus in the Spotlight: John 1-10 (Kay Arthur and Cyndy Shearer) MathSaxon Math 76 Be sure to get the Textbook, Solutions Manual,… Read more »
Music is an essential art for all children. Each child should be involved in a musical activity in their elementary and middle school years. This may be as simple as weekly singing at church and daily singing in family worship, or as rigorous as weekly lessons for an instrument involving daily practice, recitals, and music theory study. If you as… Read more »
Like Math, the language arts of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary are rule based skills which can be successfully taught with a traditional textbook or workbook style curriculum. Most language arts curriculum include reading comprehension and some amount of writing. Our approach has been to rely on language arts curriculum for the skills and challenge the student with reading a… Read more »
Since 6th grade is a transition year, science study should fill gaps from the elementary years and introduce the student to more structured, systematic ways of thinking about nature. As outlining helps the student understand history through categories and hierarchical thinking about major events and their details, so should science study become more rigorous in exposing the student to more… Read more »
We consider “writing” distinct from the “language arts” subject. Language Arts is a skill area. Think of it as learning a system of rules. The skills such as punctuation, grammar, and spelling are essential. We consider our “language arts” subject narrowly as skills that can be done by a machine or computer program. Reading comprehension and writing require a human… Read more »
Reading is the core of any education as it is the basic method of transferring knowledge from one person to another. Personal conversation and contact is crucial, of course. However, the greatest Teacher of all, Jesus, who never actually wrote any books was repeatedly asking "Have you not read…?" to His disciples and the crowds. He expected the knowledge gained… Read more »
6th grade is a year of transition from a childhood education where the child did little self study to a young adult mode of learning where the student begins to learn to work with less supervision and to analyze more complex material. This is reflected in the content studied in 6th grade history and the manner of study. Since grades… Read more »
An article in last weekend’s newspaper analyzed the payback of a college degree – Does It Pay to Go to College? by Scott Burns, reminded me of the cost-benefit analysis I’ve been intending to do. I have a college degree in electrical engineering and have benefitted from the boost in earning power. However, I’d like to take a close look… Read more »
What to expect from a teenagerTeenager. The word can bring fear to any parent of younger children as they imagine their kids entering so-called "adolescence". Expectations seem universally low for modern teenagers. What can you as a parent and teacher reasonably expect from a 14 year old? Some look around and see culture in shambles and just hope to keep… Read more »
Every Good Path is a site for all matters of mature living in the Kingdom of God. Literally – “every” good path. But you’ll notice homeschooling takes up a lot of the site. Homeschooling is one aspect of learning. All of life requires learning. Even if we are not sitting at a desk completing a worksheet, we are learning. We… Read more »
