Grade Six Curriculum Outline
Mrs. Pearl Taylor/Miss D. Wilks
Please note well that the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum is a spiral curriculum and concepts become wider, more in depth and more abstract as the grades progress. This is especially true for Grade 6.
MATHEMATICS
– The number system and place value
– Factors and multiples
– The common fraction
– Decimals
– Percent
– Ratio and proportion
– Measurement
– The metric system for mass
– Unit of volume
– Unit of capacity
– Using a schedule
– Averages
– Equations
– Estimation
– Rounding whole numbers, decimals
– Money – four rules
– Mental math
Basic Geometry: Angles
Triangles
Parallel lines
Perpendicular lines
Line segments, rays
Identification of polygons and the parts of a circle
Identification of solid figures and their faces, edges or vertices
Finding area of square, rectangle or triangle
Statistics: Interpreting graphs
Understanding mean, median, mode, range
Problem solving in all concepts taught
LANGUAGE ARTS
1. Written and Oral Communication
a) Building the paragraph
b) Refining writing skills:
– expanding sentences
– correcting rambling and run-on sentences
– choosing the best word
– using figures of speech – similes and metaphors
– writing poetry
– changing poetry to prose
2. Kinds of Writing
a) Using transition words
b) Writing narrative paragraphs
c) Using the senses in writing
d) Writing descriptive paragraphs
e) Fact and opinion
f) Taking notes and preparing outlines
g) Writing a report
h) Writing a story (opening, setting, characters, etc.) which engages the reader
i) Making characters talk
j) Writing about characters from books
3. Writing letters
4. Speaking and listening skills
5. Library Skills
6. Parts of speech
7. Phrases and sentences, run-on sentences, fragments, etc
8. Punctuation and Capitalisation
9. Journal writing
10. Making Posters
11. Following the publishing process
12. Writing first drafts, reading to audience and making suggestions for improvement
13. Spelling
– Use of dictionary, encyclopaedia and other reference books to extend vocabulary
– Using key words from various subject areas (Science, Social Studies, etc) for additional spelling
– Words with variable sounds of the same digraphs and different digraphs giving the same sound (e.g. train, said, meet)
– Spell phonetically irregular words (e.g. rough, cough, through)
– Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, suffixes, prefixes
– Clarifying Jamaican Standard English confusion of words such as blouse/blows, buck/butt, file/foil (pronunciation)
14. Reading
– Identify and use ideas at the literal level (e.g. character traits, cause and effect, relationships, sequence of events)
– Infer meanings that go beyond what is stated (opinions, predicting outcomes)
– Use grammatical and other clues to derive meaning of words in context
– Identify and respond to distinctive features of oral language (e.g. songs, stories, poems)
– Identify image, simile, metaphor, rhythm and rhyme in poetry and explain effects
– Listen critically to ideas expressed and react appropriately
– Listen and draw inferences from different forms of oral language (radio, advertisements, speeches, interviews)
– Assume roles when reading a wide range of unfamiliar texts
– Identify bias in informational texts and reports in print.
SCIENCE
The Sense Organs:
– Sound – The Ear
– Light – The Eye
The Environment and us
Revision of Grades 4 and 5 work:
– Air (Part of Earth’s atmosphere)
– Water
– Living Things
– Simple and Complex Machines
– Rocks, Minerals and Soils
– The Sense Organs (Skin, Tongue, Nose)
– Weather and Climate
– Forces
SOCIAL STUDIES
Life on Planet Earth with subthemes:
– Planet Earth and its resources
– Climatic Zones of the Earth
– Planet Earth, a Global Village
Revision of Grades 4 and 5 work:
– Jamaica (location, physical features, counties and parishes, important events people in our history, effects of weather and climate, meeting our economic needs, preserving our environment, composition of our population, population movement, our culture)
– Our Caribbean Neighbours (territories, region, mainland, archipelago, Commonwealth Caribbean, capital cities)
– Lines of latitude and longitude to locate places
– Bodies of water
– National symbols of Caribbean countries
– Cultural similarities and differences among Caribbean people (food, festivals, carnivals, music)
Visit the Students’ Art Gallery
