Free printable · 6th grade
6th grade homeschool, on one page
What to teach this year, how often, and for how long. About an hour and 45 minutes a day, four days a week, with Friday kept light.
Arbor turns this page into your child’s whole year, every lesson written out for you to teach, at their level. Free for 14 days.
The subjects
| Subject | Days a week | Minutes | What 6th grade covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math | 4 | 20 | Dividing fractions, ratios and rates, percents, negative numbers, expressions and equations, area and volume, statistics |
| Reading | 4 | 20 | Citing evidence, theme and summary, a novel (A Christmas Carol), Greek and Latin roots, poetry, point of view |
| Writing | 4 | 20 | Arguments with claims and reasons, writing from sources, story craft, writing about literature, a research paper |
| Science | 2 | 30 | Heat and energy, weather and climate, cells and body systems, the rock cycle, plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanoes |
| History | 2 | 20 | Maps and time zones, Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, Israel, India and China, Greece, Rome, the early church |
| Read aloud | Every day | 15–20 | A book you both love, or one they read on their own and you talk about |
History can be Geography instead: maps and time zones, Earth's regions, and every continent.
A sample week
Mon
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- Science
- Read aloud
About 110 minutes
Tue
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- History
- Read aloud
About 100 minutes
Wed
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- Science
- Read aloud
About 110 minutes
Thu
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- History
- Read aloud
About 100 minutes
Fri
- Read aloud
- Catch up, a field trip, or co-op
About 20 minutes
Move any of it to suit your family. The days and minutes are the pace of Arbor’s own 6th grade curriculum.
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Arbor turns this into your child’s whole year: each lesson written out for you to teach, at their level, with the records kept as you go. Free for 14 days.