Sixth Grade

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

English Language Arts

  • Support ideas and arguments using evidence from multiple credible sources
  • Use technology tools to communicate effectively with others
  • Write complete, effective sentences.paragraphs, and essays for a variety of purposes
  • Analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
  • Read a variety of genres (including types of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry)and identify the components that make each unique
  • Analyze literary elements and their contributions to the text
  • Prove central theme and main idea by providing support details from text

Energy and the Environment

  • think big and toward the future as they explore sustainable solutions to our energy needs and investigate the impact of energy in our lives and in the world.

Math

  • Surface area and volume
  • Multiplying and dividing fractions
  • Ratios and rates
  • Fractions, decimals, and percents
  • Angles
  • Order of operations
  • Probability
  • Number Sense
  • Math Facts

Science

  • Use past failures to revise and improve design and experimentation
  • Analyze data to accurately explain their findings in an experiment and show supporting evidence
  • Use the appropriate tool and measurements so they can accurately describe, represent, and analyze phenomena in the physical world
  • Create and interpret multiple types of graphs when provided an experimental process
  • Create a model representation to explain processes

Social Studies

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

  • Interpret and use key features of a map
  • Compare and contrast different points of view
  • Analyze the cause and effect of a conflict
  • Demonstrate effective collaboration skills
  • Summarize main idea through clear and coherent writing on a topic
  • Use text features to support comprehension of informational text
  • Summarize the main idea of a topic

Meet Our Sixth Grade Teachers

James Grota

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
GRADE 6

Jade Nord

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
GRADE 6

Christine Stanich

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
GRADE 6

Lindsey Walch

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
GRADE 6

Joseph Ohm

Location(s)
Century High School, John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
ASSISTANT VARSITY BOYS COACH, GRADE 6, ASSISTANT VARSITY BOYS COACH

Danielle Johnson

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
GRADE 6, STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Danae DeBolt

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
GRADE 6

Christina Gehrke

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
GRADE 6, STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Marisa Cottrell

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
GRADE 6

Hans Hollander

Location(s)
John Adams Middle School
School Email
(Primary)
Title(s)
Grade 6