What your child learns in Grade 6 in New Brunswick
Grade 6 pushes towards more abstract thinking: ratio, percent, decimals and fractions, and patterns and equations. Science explores how the senses and the brain help us find our way. Social studies looks at the Atlantic region and the world: cultures, cross-cultural understanding, politics and trade.
Grade 6 subjects in the New Brunswick Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Number: Number Sense. Describe numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.
- Number: Operations. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to solve problems (1-digit whole number multipliers and 1-digit natural number divisors).
- Statistics and Probability: Data Analysis. Collect and represent data.
14 units, including thousandths to billions, facts & factors, mixed numbers & ratios, percents & budgets.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Interactions: Expression. Describe and contribute thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and compare to those of their peers.
- Interactions: Exchanges. Ask and respond to questions to clarify information, explore possibilities, and identify solutions to a problem.
- Interactions: Reception. Critically reflect on the contributions of others.
11 units, including roots & analogies, agreement, sentence repair, commas & clauses.
Science
Big Ideas
- Grade focus: Wayfinding - Making Sense of Your World.
- Scientific Literacy: Investigation. Plan investigations to answer questions about relationships between and among variables observed in natural and technical sensory systems.
- Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking. Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
9 units, including static electricity, circuits, flight, earth, moon and sun.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Geography: Methods and Tools. Locate the Atlantic region in relation to other regions.
- Geography: Human Systems and Interactions. Examine contemporary cultures in the Atlantic region and their connections to other global cultures.
- History: Events and Peoples. Investigate the history of cross-cultural understanding in the Atlantic region.
8 units, including map skills, the atlantic region, what makes canada, canada?, governments & rights.
French Immersion
Big Ideas
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Demonstrate understanding of different oral texts on a variety of topics using comprehension strategies.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction. Share information, knowledge, ideas, and opinions on a variety of topics using various types of presentations and/or exchanges.
- Speaking and Listening: Multilingual Identities and Cultural Appreciation. Describe how languages and cultures shape learners’ own evolving identities and worldviews.
7 units, including imparfait ou passé composé?, racines et préfixes, les légendes, quand et où?.
Core French
Big Ideas
- Oral Communication: Speak, Listen, Communicate, Interact. Ask for and provide information in social and school settings with some accuracy.
- Reading and Viewing: Read, Comprehend, Respond, Interpret. Read, comprehend, and interpret a variety of texts.
- Writing and Representing: Create Simple Texts. Produce simple, connected texts on familiar topics of personal interest.
8 units, including letter patterns, question words, hobbies, giving reasons.
What to look for on the report card
Look for comments about organization, explaining reasoning in math and writing with evidence. Grade 6 students may take part in a provincial assessment.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling. See what each level means.
Grade 6 students also take the New Brunswick provincial assessments. Read the Provincial assessments guide.
The Global Competencies grow through every subject from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Read about global competencies.
Ready for Grade 6?
Grade 6 builds on what your child practised in Grade 5. If a skill feels shaky, a few short practice sessions before or early in the year can help:
- Math: numbers to a million, add & subtract, mental math tricks, multiply, divide
- English Language Arts: talking together, spelling smarts, context clues, greek and latin roots, verb tenses
- Science: weather and the water cycle, forces, friction and machines, simple machines, digestion & breathing, heart, bones & muscles
- Social Studies: learning from the past, french & british in atlantic canada, the wabanaki confederacy, worldviews & deciding together
- French Immersion: qui, que, où, dont, ne… plus, jamais, rien, les adverbes, la ponctuation, la bande dessinée
- Core French: salutations, sounds and accents, numbers 0 to 30, masculine, feminine, plural, likes and dislikes
Common questions
Grade 6 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies, french immersion, core french in the New Brunswick Curriculum. Grade 6 pushes towards more abstract thinking: ratio, percent, decimals and fractions, and patterns and equations. Science explores how the senses and the brain help us find our way. Social studies looks at the Atlantic region and the world: cultures, cross-cultural understanding, politics and trade.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling. Students in Grade 6 also write the New Brunswick provincial assessments, which is separate from the report card.
Short, regular practice works better than long sessions: 10 to 15 minutes a few times a week, on the skills your child's teacher flags. Read together, use math in real life, and praise effort.
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