Sixth Grade Summary

I was trying to get a smile out of them, but it wasn't working, so I told them to do scrunchy face. Naturally, Ocean decided to smile while the other two did scrunchy face. Oh well.

Now that the new school year has started, I figured I should post about what Sunshine did last year in 6th grade. This includes the camps she attended and our road trip last summer. I'm only offering minimal commentary on her classes due to lack of time right now. Her book work was nothing spectacular, but she did enjoy our road trips and her co-op classes.

History and Geography

two Little House on the Prairie sites- Kansas and Minnesota

Zion NP 

Cedar Breaks NM

Glacier NP

Waterton Lakes NP in Canada

Yellowstone NP

7000 mile road trip through 23 states and Canada

Montpelier

Gettysburg

Ash Lawn
Junior Ranger programs at the parks we visited

History club- This was the last year for this. The kids have all started losing interest and want to pursue other activities, so we mutually agreed to put an end to it at the end of the school year.

Story of the World books

Math

Real world math class at fall co-op

Mind Benders logic puzzles

Life of Fred- elementary, intermediate, fractions, decimals & percents, pre-algebra 0, pre-algebra 1, pre-algebra 2

Tuttle Twins series

Greek

Song School Greek

Handwriting

Level 6 of Good and Beautiful Handwriting course

Spelling & Grammar

nothing specific- but Greek and Handwriting contained spelling and grammar lessons

Science

Elementary Astronomy online course

Reading

Lots of books

Writing

Well Trained Mind Creative Writing book

Typing

Good and Beautiful Typing 1

Art/crafts/cooking

Drawing and watercolor classes - fall and winter co-op

Art class - spring co-op

Metalsmithing - winter co-op

Cooking around Asia - spring co-op

Computers 

Coding club in Jan/Feb

Intro to Game Development - spring co-op

Intro to Computer Science with Minecraft – spring co-op

Phys Ed

Big hikes: Angel's Landing in Zion NP, Virginia and St Mary Falls in Glacier NP, Kanarraville Falls in Utah

Lots of shorter hikes (48 total hikes in 2017)

Turkey Trot (5k)

A little bit of kayaking

Extra Curriculars

Weekly fiddle lessons first half of the year

Weekly piano lessons second half of the year

Weekly Irish music performing group first half of the year

Weekly Irish music class second half of the year

Irish music day camp in the summer

Nature camp in the summer