| Sixth Grade Amanda School Year: 2004-2005 Age: 10/11 |
| PROPOSED AREAS OF STUDY: This year we will introduce REAL curriculum. Amanda will have classes in Bible, Math, Language Arts, Science, History/Geography, Art, Spanish, and Typing. |
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| BOOKS READ: Amanda will be reading the following books for her Literature class: "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Latham "The Bronze Bow" by Elizabeth George Speare "Big Red" by Jim Kjelgaard "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis Other Books Read this Year: "Gladys Aylward" by Janet & Geoff Benge "Hermint Thrush Sings" "Gib Rides Home" "Gib and the Gray Ghost" "The Hostile Hospital" "The Carnivoras Coran" "The Stink Files" "The Transall Sage" "My Mother Got Married" by Barbara Park "Trousie Don't Last" by Shelly Persall "A Traitor Among Us" by Elizabeth Steele "The Rumpelstilskin Problem" by Vivian Vonde "Bad Girls" by Cynthia "Bad, Badder, Badest" by Cynthia "A Long Time Ago Today" by Sally Warner "The Magnificent Mummy Maker" Elvira Woodlawn "The Traitor" Laurence Yep "Thunder Cave" Roland Smith "The Tiger's Apprentice" Laurence Yep "Crown Duel" Roland Smith "Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret" Judy Blume "Pacific Crossing" "Johnny Tremain" "Sword of the Rightful King" "The Grim Gotts" "Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke "The Stone Circle" "The Breaker Boys" |
| FIELD TRIPS TAKEN: Charlotte, NC to the Renaissance Faire National Weather Service Forecast Office in Columbia, SC Charleston, SC to the setting for the book, "Pirates..." Riverbanks Zoo |
| Bible Alpha Omega Bible 6 FINAL GRADE: 75% - C Math Saxon Math 65 whole-number concepts and computation; estimation; patterns and sequences; fractions, decimals, and mixed numbers; percent; word-problems; properties of operations; integers; divisibility concepts; prime and composite numbers; ratios; square roots; scale drawings; measurement and unit conversion; statistics; probability; data display and analysis; perimeter and area; volume; symmetry; tessellations; transformations; real-world connections. FINAL GRADE: 90% - B+ Language Arts Writing Strands; Learning Language Arts Through Literature (Tan) 2 Units: Library and Research Paper Integrated language arts lessons including: grammar, spelling, higher-order thinking, and study skills. Amanda joined a Middle School Book Club this year ... the "Rocket Readers". She has enjoyed reading their selections. FINAL GRADE: 85% - B Science Alpha Omega Science 6 Overview: Plant Systems (parts of a plant, systems of photosynthesis, transport systems, regulatory systems) Body Systems (digestive system, excretory system, skeletal system, health and diseases) Plant and Animal Behavior (animal behavior, plant behavior, plant-animal interaction, cycles and balance in nature) Molecular Genetics (reproduction, inheritance, DNA and mutations, Mendel's work) Chemical Structure (nature of matter, Periodic Table, diagrams of atoms, chemical changes) Light and Sound (sound waves, light waves, the visible spectrum, colors) Motion and It's Measurement (definition of work, rate or force of doing work, laws of motion and gravitation, change in motion) Spaceship Earth (shape of the earth, rotation and revolution, eclipses, the solar system) Astronomy and the Stars (history of astronomy, investigating stars, major stars, constellations) The Earth and the Universe (plant systems, animal systems, physics and chemistry, the earth and stars) FINAL GRADE: 87% - B+ History/Geography Alpha Omega History/Geography 6 Overview: World Geography (latitude & longitude, western and eastern hemispheres, the southern hemisphere, political and cultural regions) The Cradle of Civilization (Mesopotamia, the land of Israel, the Nation of Israel, Egypt) Greece and Rome (geography of the region, beginning civilizations, contributions to other civilizations, the influence of Christianity) The Middle Ages (the feudal system, books and schools, the Crusades, trade and architecture) Six South American Countries (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, three Guianas) Other South American Countries (Equador and Peru, Bolivia and Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina, Chile) Africa (geography and cultures, countries of northern Africa, countries of central Africa, countries of southern Africa) Modern Western Europe (the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, World War I, World War II) Modern Eastern Europe (early government, early churches, early countries, modern countries) The Development of our World (cradle of civilization, the Middle Ages, modern Europe, South America and Africa) FINAL GRADE: 90% - B+ P.E. YMCA Swim Team. Amanda's Coach (Katie Broussard) provides Amanda with an evaluation on a semester basis. FINAL GRADE: 92% - A Spanish Immersion at home (labeling, using Spanish at home whenever possible, speaking with Dad, ordering in Spanish at restaurants, etc.) Power Glide Spanish NO GRADE GIVEN Typing Amanda will continue using "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15" with a goal speed for the school year of 20 AWPM or better. NO GRADE GIVEN |
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| Physical Education: Amanda is on the YMCA Swim Team in the Gold Group. Her best swim times this year were: 50 Freestyle - 51.22 at the Pickens County YMCA Dual Meet 1/15/05. 100 Free - 1:57.54 at the Pickens County YMCA Dual Meet 1/15/05. 200 Free - 4:22.15 at the Team Greenville Holiday Invite 12/3/04. 50 Backstroke - 54.65 at the 4th Annual YSSC YMCA Invitational 10/24/04. 50 Breastroke - 55.40 at the Pickens County YMCA Dual Meet 1/15/05. 100 Breast - 2:02.03 at the 2005 Tiger Invitational 1/22/05. 100 Individual Medley - 2:02.45 at the Pickens County YMCA Dual Meet 1/15/05. |
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