Reading Workshop Units of Study:

• Establishing Our Readerly Life
• Developing Ideas About Characters
• Social Issue Book Clubs
• Reading for Information
• Fantasy Book Clubs

Writing Workshop Units of Study:

• Personal Narrative: Creating Powerful Life
• The Literary Essays
• Informational Writing
• Fantasy Stories: Writing Within Literary Tradition
• Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation, and Vocabulary (all year)

Math: 

• Ratios
• Unit Rates and Percent
• Fraction Computation
• Rational Numbers
• Algebraic Expressions
• Inequalities
• Geometry
• Statistics

Science:

• Introduction to Science
  • Activities of Science
  • Law vs Theory
  • Branches
  • Lab Safety
• Scientific Method
  • Claim
  • Evidence
  • Reasoning
• Measurement
  • Instruments and Tools
  • SI Units
  • Graphing
  • Excel
• The SI System
  • Prefixes
  • Conversions
• Motion
  • Speed, Distance, and Time
  • Algebraic and Scientific Formulas
  • Motion Graphs
• Forces
  • Balanced vs Unbalanced
  • Types of Forces (friction, gravity, weight)
  • Newton’s Laws
• The Human Body
  • Levels of Organization
  • Cells (basic) 
  • Body Systems
• Go Green Awareness
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
  • Human Impact on the Environment
• Astronomy
  • The Earth in Space
  • Planets
  • Stars
  • NASA Technology

Social Studies:

• Neolithic Revolution
  • Paleolithic Period
  • Neolithic Period
• River Valley Civilizations
  • Fertile Crescent
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Indus River Valley Civilizations
• Classical Civilizations
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient Greece
  • Roman Empire
  • Byzantine Empire
• Comparative World Religions