Sixth Grade

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”

            —Albert Einstein

Looking Outward

Sixth grade is a time of great change and new ways of thinking as pre-adolescence takes hold. The sixth grade curriculum supports the sometimes ego-centric preteen with ample opportunities to look outside themselves through observation in Astronomy and Physics, as well as cause-and-effect thinking when studying the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. As with all grades in the Waldorf curriculum, the Subjects scaffold the Main Lesson for an all-encompassing approach to learning.

Main Lesson Block

• Rome

• Middle Ages

• World geography

• Physics

• Geology/Minerology

• Astronomy

• Business math

• Geometry

Subject Classes

Music

• Choral music:  songs of the Middle Ages

• Soprano and alto recorder

• Strings/Orchestra

Practical and Fine Arts

• Geometric drawing

• Painting

• Calligraphy

• Drama

• Woodwork

• Clay modeling

• Mosaics

• Soft-fiber sculpture

Movement/Spacial Dynamics™

• Introduction to zone sports

• Folk dancing

• Circus apprenticeship

• Eurythmy

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• Spanish:  grammar, reading, free translations

• Exposure to Latin

Download the comprehensive Sixth Grade Curriculum.

Skills Classes

• Math

• Language Arts