Common+Units

=**Shared Curriculum Units**=

Reader's and Writer’s Workshop
Book Clubs (Formerly Literature Circles) – Genres
 * Realistic Fiction
 * Risk Takers/Adventurers
 * Biographies
 * Socials/Sciences

Reader's Workshop Launch [|first21daysreading.pdf]

Reading Olympics
 * Various genres (fantasy, historical fiction, poetry, realistic fiction, etc...)
 * Various writing skills (skits, diaries, newspaper articles, venn-diagrams, comics, sequels, etc...)
 * Various tech skills (excel, podcast, keynote, movies, etc...)

Writer's Workshop
 * Personal Narrative
 * Personal Essay
 * Note-taking/Research Skills
 * 5 Paragraph Biographical Essay
 * Speech Writing
 * Big Dreams Tall Ambitions (Poetry, Fiction Writing, etc...)

**(units on Atlas)**

 * Models & Designs
 * Landforms
 * Mixtures & Solutions
 * US History: Immigration, Civil War, Colonies, 20th Century
 * Health

(Units on Atlas-Language Arts and Science)

 * Phase 1: Students research an inventor and recreate his/her most famous invention.
 * Phase 2: Students build their own invention. Emphasis placed more on the process, not the product.

=**Special Activities and Events**=


 * Beyonda Box – Monthly problem solving challenge
 * Soccer Days
 * Music Bonanza – music switch with 5th grade at Pudong campus
 * Field Trips (GM Factory, Science Museum)
 * China Alive Trip to QiBao-local water town
 * Reading Olympics
 * Lunch Share
 * SAS Swim Program
 * Transition Ceremony