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Grade 6 Curriculum Overview Waldorf Teacher Resources

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grade 6 curriculum overview waldorf teacher resources

The harmonious balanced Greek period is ending a willful, muscular Roman period beginning. At this time, there is a false dawn of intellectual consciousness as the child's feeling perception passes over to the world of ideas. This is not the same as the critical, independent thinking and judging that will come after the age of fourteen: it is instead a feeling approach to thinking. The work with whole numbers and fractions and decimals from the previous year continues, but now it is expanded to include percentage. Business math creates a practical context for these mathematical concepts and provides a transition into an introduction to algebra. The geometrical constructions which were done free-hand last year, are now made with a compass and a ruler.

Students learn the importance of precision and some basic geometrical constructions, like bisecting a line and an angle, as they create beautiful artistic geometrical forms. "A new phase in the structure and methodology of instruction begins with the sixth grade. From now on the child needs to be focused on the outer world in a very different manner. In conversation one can connect interest calculation with the monetary system, today's credit system and questions of the social threefold order. . .

. Against this social background the interest formula ceases to be purely mathematical and becomes a social matter. The essence of an algebraic formula, of "letter calculation," is the articulation of a concept of connections conforming to some law. This lays the foundation for conceptual thinking." Ernst Schuberth, Mathematics Lessons for the Sixth Grade "As the children approach puberty their feeling life expands in all ways.

Mathematics can offer an important support in this stage of life. Their own subjective opinions and ideas are not required! Mathematics attracts their attention not only to the numerical material but especially to their own thinking. If the pupils manage to become confident and secure with mathematical laws, they learn self-confidence. When this is achieved the young people are on the way to the most important aim in mathematics teaching: that of gaining trust in thinking." I've been sharing my notes since 2005.

Click on my picture to help support my work. Thank you! If you can only afford the essentials, these are the two things -- and the only 2 things -- that you need to develop your homeschool curriculum. Both of these resources cover grades 1 through 12. (And, don't worry, you can still do a FANTASTIC job!) The Educational Tasks & Content of the Steiner Waldorf Curriculum

In sixth grade, the 11/12 year-old is usually beginning to experience the onset of puberty. Growth happens at an increasingly rapid rate and the child often goes through a time of alarm, not recognizing who he or she is anymore. Just as a single example, somewhere during the time of puberty a girl’s larynx grows to three times its original size and a boy’s, seven times its original size. This growth rate will never be repeated in the life span of human development. Along with this physical growth comes a wonderful burst of new capacities of judgement. Sixth graders can be very fine company, capable of interesting insight and discussion.

However, it is important to keep in mind that they are still children. Rome is the literary/cultural focus of the curriculum in grade 6. Lawfulness becomes an important anchor for the sixth grader. Clear structure, consequences for law breaking, and contracts for increasing responsibility are the best for helping a child through the difficult range of feelings that burst forth at this age. Keeping the child energetically concentrated on the work of learning is therapeutic and teaches the child that work helps tangled feelings move forward and lighten. To listen sympathetically to the upsets inevitable at this time, and then to re-focus on work to be done constitutes good practice for these youngsters.

They are relying on adults for this. “Contracts toward increasing responsibility,” is a good “slogan” for sixth graders: once work is completed, negotiations and privileges can begin!Download a PDF of Grade 6 Book Recommendations A Handbook for Waldorf Class Teachers Kevin Avison Awakening Intelligence Magda Lisseau Evaluation, Homework, and Teacher’s Support David Mitchell, ed. Finding Your Self Torin Finser From Images to Thinking David Mitchell, ed.Growing Up Healthy in a World of Digital Media Michaela Glöckler Immersion Learning: A Travelogue Frans Lutters Leaving Room for the Angels Reg... MüllerThe Temperaments and the Arts Magda Lissau Working with Anxious, Nervous, and Depressed Children Henning Koehler and Joseph Baily Developing the Observing Eye Cynthia Lange Difficult Children: There Is No Such Thing Henning Koehler and Joseph BaileyEducating the Will Michael HowardHelping Children on Their Way Elizabeth AuerLearning about the World through Modeling Arthur...

Raphael: The Mysteries of Illness and Healing Michaela Glöckler, M.D. The Four Temperaments Helmut EllerWill-Developed Intelligence Patricia Livingston and David MitchellWorking with Anxious, Nervous, and Depressed Children Henning Koehler and Joseph Baily Adventures in Parenting Rachel Ross Assessment for Learning in Waldorf Classrooms Sara Ciborski & Helen-Ann Ireland Child Development at a Glance Christian Breme Into the World: How Waldorf Graduates Fare after High School, Douglas... Awakening critical thinking through logic and discovery In Waldorf sixth grade, students stand at the threshold of early adolescence. At this age, their thinking becomes more logical and analytical, yet their moral view of the world is still largely shaped by clear definitions of right and wrong.

This developmental stage craves structure, fairness, and clarity—making it an ideal time to introduce subjects that offer both intellectual challenge and ethical reflection. The sixth grade Waldorf curriculum is designed to meet these needs with a strong emphasis on logic, lawfulness, and order. Students engage with business math, geometric drawing, and the introduction of algebraic equations—subjects that satisfy their growing ability to reason and appreciate structure. In the sciences, students explore physics, geology, and botany through hands-on experiments and observation, laying the groundwork for scientific thinking rooted in experience. The humanities curriculum spans a wide arc of history—from ancient Rome to medieval Europe, the Crusades, and the rise of Islam—offering rich cultural context while engaging their strong sense of justice and inquiry into... Writing becomes more advanced with a focus on expository, descriptive, and narrative forms, strengthening students' ability to articulate their ideas with clarity and purpose.

Geography expands to include the continents of North and South America, helping students develop a global perspective and deeper understanding of their place in the world. I'm so pleased to begin offering my sixth grade materials! It all starts with my collection of essential sixth grade documents.In this packet you’ll find my most essential Waldorf Grade Six documents. It is not a full curriculum guide but it gives a brief picture of the year as a whole and includes some of the most important documents that provided a framework for our work... I hope to follow in the coming weeks with guides for many of the sixth grade main lesson blocks. Watch this space for updates.Find my Sixth Grade Basics here.

Click on the program to gain access. Please contact your child's teacher for username and password information. Savvas Realize is a platform used to access Clifton K-12 curriculum materials; enVision Math program. Imagine Math is an adaptive digital math curriculum and assessment solution for PreK–8 that delivers unmatched excellence in language development—accelerating learning across subjects for all students. Prodigy, a no-cost math game is using game-based learning to transform education. Prodigy delivers a unique learning experience through an interactive math game where success depends on correctly answering skill-building math questions.

Standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more. It’s all free for learners and teachers.Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning. The mission of this site is to provide Waldorf teachers with a means of sharing with each other what has worked. It is a place where we can share our curriculum ideas, main lesson pages, music, resources, and, most of all, our inspirations and experience. You will find materials organized by grade and lesson block, each with a tab labeled "Gems." On this tab are individual posts containing curriculum ideas and materials which worked well in the classroom. Each post may have main lesson work or useful materials attached.

Teachers may "reply" to a post to add additional material or feedback. Teachers may also add their own posts with new ideas. Click the following link for complete posting procedure and guidelines. As a word of caution, nothing can take the place of our inner work. Any education simply based on methods and materials is not alive. The task of a Waldorf teacher is to teach artistically.

We teach artistically when we are connected with the spiritual world, as this is where all true art finds its source. Art is the result of the life force that flows through us from this source and it is reflected in how we prepare and deliver a lesson. It is reflected in how we attune and respond to the needs of the children while in the classroom. While the materials on this site provide mainly physical support, hopefully a drop of the spirit and inspiration that went into bringing them to the classroom can be communicated as well. This is all to easily lost in the translation and efficiency of documentation. Please remember to ask, "Why am I bringing this lesson?

How does this lesson meet the children's needs intellectually, emotionally, and/or physically? What capacities is it helping to develop?" This site is provided completely free to teachers and schools. If you find it valuable, a donation will help cover the costs of maintaining the website. Registration assures that you are a human being with a real email address. This helps prevent spamming to the curriculum pages.

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