CLASS SIX
The sixth grade curriculum is exciting and complex. Students may come home talking about the Pythagorean Theorem, Roman aqueducts, or how to calculate a discount. New subjects include geology, physics, business math, astronomy, form drawing, and a yearlong concentrated block of the fundamentals of geometry.
The historical focus is the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Christianity and Islam and the interaction between the two, and the Middle Ages in Europe and in the mighty empires of South America and Japan. The sixth grade curriculum is multidisciplinary: in geometry, students learn the Vesica Piscis, the archetypal architectural form of the Middle Ages. Grammar studies take place in the context of Platonic dialogues and Socratic monologues. Pre-algebra is introduced in the block on the late Middle Ages and Islam.
In woodwork, students carve a spoon or bowl and in handwork the students sew three-dimensional animals developed from their own drawings
