Language
Arts
Comprehension
Strategies
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1.
Visualization ( Sept)
2. Inferring
(Oct)
2. Making
Connections (Nov-Dec)
3. Determining
importance (Jan-Feb)
4.
Summarizing (Mar-April)
5.
Questioning( May)
6.
Synthesizing ( June)
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Reading
Skills
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1. Finding
Main Idea (Sept)
2. Recalling
Facts and Details (Sept)
3.
Understanding Sequence (Oct)
4.
Recognizing Cause and Effect (Oct)
5. Comparing
and Contrasting (Nov)
6. Making
Predictions (Dec)
7. Finding
word meaning in context (Jan)
8. Drawing
Conclusions and Making Inferences (Feb)
9.
Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion (Mar)
10.
Understanding Author’s Purpose (April)
11.
Interpreting Figurative Language (May)
12. Summarizing
(May- June)
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Writing
Traits
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1. Ideas and
Content ( Sept-Oct)
2. Fluency
(Nov- Dec)
3. Word
Choice(Jan)
4. Voice (
Feb)
5.
Organization ( Mar-April)
6.
Conventions ( May-June)
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Writing
Forms
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Narratives
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1. Personal
Narrative: Auto biography(Sept-Oct)
2. Short
Fiction (Nov)
3. Biography (Dec)
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Informational
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1. Literacy
Nonfiction
·
explain,
persuade, fact, brochures, text feature (Jan)
2. Expository
Nonfiction
·
featured
article, report (Feb)
3. Essay
·
persuasive
(Mar)
·
Descriptive
( Mar)
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Functional
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1. Formal
Letter
·
business,
informative, persuasive (April)
2 .Friendly
Letter ( May)
3. List and
Procedures ( June)
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Novel
Studies
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1. “Among the
Hidden”, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
2. “No
Talking”, by Andrew Clements
3. “The Tales
of a Fourth Grade Nothing”, by Judy
Blume
4. “Fatty
Legs”, by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pikiak- Fenton
5. “ A
Stranger at Home”, by Christy
Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pikiak- Fenton
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Math
Grade
6
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Grade
5
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Patterns
and Equations
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. Extend
understanding of patterns and relationships in tables of values and graphs
. Extend understanding
of preservation of equality
. Extend
understanding of patterns and relationships using expressions and equations
involving variable
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. Represent,
analyze and apply patterns using mathematical language
. Write,
solve and verify solutions of single-variable, one-step equations with whole numbers
coefficients and whole number solutions
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Whole
Numbers
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.Demonstrate
understanding of place value for numbers greater than 1 million and less than
one thousand
. Demonstrate
understanding of factors and multiples of numbers less than 100, relating
factors and multiples to multiplication and division
. Demonstrate
understanding of the order of operations on whole numbers
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. Represent ,
compare and describe whole numbers to 1,000,000 within the context of place
value and base ten system
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Multiplication
and Division
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. Extend
understanding of multiplication and division to decimals
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. Develop
strategies for multiplication of whole numbers
. Understand
division ( 3-didgit by 1-didgit)
. Apply
strategies for estimation and computation
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Fractions
and Decimals
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. Demonstrate
understanding of percent
. Demonstrate
understanding of fractions to improper fractions and to mixed numbers
. Demonstrate an understanding of ratio
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. Understand
equivalent fractions and compare fractions with like and unlike denominators
. Understand
decimals to thousandths
. Understand
addition and subtraction of decimals ( limited to thousandths)
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Measurement
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. Demonstrate
an understanding of perimeter of polygons, area of rectangles, and volume of
right rectangular prisms
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. Construct rectangles given
either perimeter, area or both
. Understand
measuring length and the relationship between mm, cm and m units
. Understand
volume for cm3 or m3 units
. Understand
capacity between mL and L
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Geometry
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.
Demonstrate
and understanding regular and irregular polygons
. Demonstrate
an understanding of the first quadrant of the Cartesian plane and ordered
pairs with whole number coordinates
. Demonstrate
an understanding of single and combinations of transformations of 2-D shapes
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. Provide
examples of edges and faces of 3-D objects, and sides of 2-D shapes
. Identify
and sort quadrilaterals
. Analyze
single transformations of 2-D shapes
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Statistics
and Probability
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. Extend
understanding of data analysis
. Demonstrate
an understanding of probability
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. Differentiate
between first-hand and second-hand data
. Construct
and interpret double bar graphs
. Compare,
predict, and test the likelihood of outcomes in probability situations
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Health
Grade
6
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Grade
5
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Self-regulation/
Healthy Stress Management Strategies
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. Assess and demonstrate strategies used to
identify and make healthy decisions in stressful situations (USC 6.4)
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. Assess the
importance of self-regulation and taking responsibility for ones actions (
USC 6.4)
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Healthy
Eating and Physical Activity/ Personal Eating Practices
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. Analyze the
factors that influence the development of personal standards and identity,
and determine the impact of healthy decision making (USC 6.1)
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. Analyze
personal eating practices ( USC 5.1)
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Diseases
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. Demonstrate an understanding of how
non-curable infections, including HIV and Hepatitis C infection, are
transmitted and how these infections influence the health and the identities
of self, family and community (USC 6.3)
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. Analyze the
challenges of infectious diseases, and non-infectious illnesses/diseases to
holistic well-being (USC 5.3)
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Influence
of Relationships/ Self-Esteem
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. Analyze the
influences on perceptions of and personal standards related to body image,
and the resulting impact on the identities and the well-being of self, family
and community ( USC 6.5)
. Assess how
health promotions and advertising standards and behaviours and determine how
and why certain groups of consumers are targeted (USC 6.7)
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. Analyze the
connections among personal identity, well-being, and positive self-image (
USC 5.4)
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Puberty
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. Understand
the responsibilities associated with puberty
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Science
Grade
6
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Grade
5
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Life
Science: Habitats and Communities
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Earth
and Space Science: Weather
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. Measure and
present weather
. Investigate
local, national and global weather conditions
. Analyze the
impact of weather on society and the environment
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Physical
Science: Electricity
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.Assess
personal, societal, economic, and environmental impacts of electricity use in
Saskatchewan and propose actions to reduce those impacts
. Investigate
the characteristics and applications of static electric charges, conductors,
insulators, switches and electromagnetism
. Explain and
model the properties of simple series and parallel circuits
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Forces
and Simple Machines
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. Analyze the
effects of gravitational, magnetic and mechanical forces
. Investigate
characteristics of simple machines moving and lifting loads
. assess how
natural and man-made forces and simple machines affect individuals, society
and the environment
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Diversity
of Living Things
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. Recognize,
describe, and appreciate the diversity of living things in local and other
ecosystems, and explore related careers
. Examine how
humans organize understanding of the diversity of living things
. Analyze the
characteristics and behaviors of vertebrates
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Social
Grade
6
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Grade
5
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Resources
and Wealth:
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. Examine and
analyze factors that contribute to quality of life, including material and
non-material factors (RW 6.1)
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.Explain the
importance of sustainable management of the environment to Canada’s future (RW 5.1)
. Hypothesize
about economic changes that Canada may experience in the future(RW 5.2)
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Dynamic
Relationships:
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.Analyze ways
in which the land affects human settlement patterns and social organization,
and ways in which human habitation affects land ( DR 6.2)
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. Analyze the
historic and contemporary relationship to the land in Canada ( DR 5.1)
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Power
and Authority:
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. Explore
examples and explain how people, such as ethnic minority groups, the
disabled, youth, and the elderly, may be affected by injustice or abuses of
power ( PA 6.3)
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. Explain the
purposes and functions of governance structures in Canada ( PA 5.1)
. Explain the
purposes and functions of governance structures in Canada, including First
Nations systems and those patterned on the Westminster parliamentary system (PA 5.2)
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Interdependence:
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. Examine the
social and cultural diversity that exists in the world, as exemplified in
Canada and a selection of countries bordering the Atlantic ocean ( IN 6.2)
. Develop an
understanding that global interdependence impacts individual daily life in
Canada and a selection of countries bordering the Atlantic ocean (IN 6.3)
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. Analyze the
evolution of Canada as a multicultural nation (IN5.2)
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Physical
Education
Skills
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Sports/ Activities to apply
attained skills
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Active
Living:
Enjoy and
engage in healthy levels of participation in movement activities to support
lifelong active living in the context of self, family and community.
Skillful
Movement:
Enhance
quality of movement by understanding, developing and transferring movement
concepts, skills, tactics, and strategies to a wide variety of movement
activities.
Relationships:
Balance self
through safe and respectful personal, social, cultural, and environmental
interaction in a wide variety of movement activities.
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. Complex
Locomotor Skills
. Locomotor
Skills
. Complex
Non-Locomotor Skills
.
Manipulative Skills
. Complex
Manipulative Skills
. Movement
Refinement
. Skillful
Play
. Tactics,
Rules and Strategies
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. Volleyball
. Basketball
. Badminton
. Soccer
. Dance
. Gymnastics
. Track and
Field
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