Registering for Grade 6

Steps in the Course Registration Process

To prepare for and complete the course registration process, please complete the following steps:

Review the Course Selection Planning Sheet below and review the Grade 6 Elective Course Descriptions.

and look at the Electives Fair video below (Last year's already uploaded, and this year's version will be uploaded shortly) if you need to know more about any of the classes.
On the Course Selection Sheet that Mr. King is sending home, select your two electives and two alternative choices in case your first two choices are not available. Please do not select the same classes for the elective and alternate choices.
Talk as a family about your choices.
Do the Google Forms Course Ranking Survey below to rank your top 10 courses that you have selected. This will probably not be needed as all students are expected to get into their first choice or alternative classes, but we are doing it so that we have some data on student preferences.
Be sure to return your Course Selection Planning forms to school by Thursday, April 11, 2024.
On Friday, April 12, 2024, Mr. King will visit the grade five classes to help students register.
- Note that the computer uses an algorithm to place students in classes. It is not first come first serve. After all students have registered for classes, the computer will figure out the best (optimal) course allocation for classes and teachers to get the greatest number of students into their elective choices. The program does not discriminate based on if you were the first to register in PowerSchool, it only looks at what classes you chose and teacher availability and makes the timetable that gets the greatest number of students in the classes that they want.

Video of Grade 5 Parent Information Session (April 1, 2024)

Sixth Grade - The Move to Middle School_1.mp4

Video of Grade 5 Electives Fair (2023 Version)

Video of Grade 5 Electives Fair 2024 (Coming Soon)

Slides From the Grade 5 Electives Fair

2024-2025 Grade 5 Electives Fair

Grade 6 Elective Course Descriptions

Course Selection Planning Form

2024-2025 - Grade 6 Elective Course Descriptions

G6-Course_Planning_Form

This form is used for students to see what classes are available to register for and to select what the electives and alternative choices they most like are.

Elective classes in the middle school do not have prerequisites, except for languages and music. However, even in those classes, an interview with and permission from the teacher could mean placement in an advanced level is possible.

One of the purposes of Wednesday late start time is vertical alignment with the high school. This results in aligning the content in the class to help prepare students for high school. This is particularly true for STEAM, Robotics, Computer Science, and world languages.

Students who take Beginning Mandarin (Mandarin I) and Intermediate Mandarin (Mandarin II) may skip Chinese I in the high school and start at Chinese II. Students who have also taken Advanced Mandarin (Mandarin III) may also take a placement test to place into Chinese III.

Students who take Spanish A and Spanish B will have the opportunity to move into Spanish II in the high school. If they take Spanish B in 8th grade they do not need to take a placement test, however if Spanish B is taken in 7th grade a test will be taken to see if students have retained the requisite skills and knowledge.

2024-2025 Grade 6 Course Ranking

PowerSchool Sidebar

Parent and teacher accounts will have a button on the left-hand side that is called Class Registration. However, this will only be activated while Mr. King is in class with the students registering. If your child is unable to be at school when Mr. King does the registration, then he will make arrangements to help those students register when they return or to meet with them virtually to complete the process.