MAY

22 - Grade 5 Soccer Day
22 - Grade 5 Memoir Celebration
23 - Grade 4 Soccer Day
23 - Coaches Planning Day
24 - Grade 3 Soccer Day
24 - Shanghai Literacy Coaches Meeting
28-Jun 1 - China Alive Week
29 - China Alive Cooking Day
29 - Final Literacy Leadership Meeting
29 - Grade 5 Planning Day
30 - 5TB Memoir Slam
30 - China Alive Art Day
31 - Parent Appreciation Lunch
31 - China Alive Sports Day

JUNE

1- Moving Up Day
1 - China Alive Activity Day
6 - Grade 4 Planning Day
7 - Summer Sizzler
8 - Grade 5 Transition
12 - Report Cards Go Home
12 - Last Day for Students
13 - Last day for Faculty

Afar Magazine, March edition
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
The Color of Tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe
Jamie's Cookbook by Jamie Oliver
Igniting a Passion for Reading by Steven Layne
Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Knuffle Bunny Free by Mo Willems
Matched by Ally Condie
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Pressured Child by Michael Thompson
Journey by Patricia MacLachlan
The Twits by Roald Dhal
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng and Judy Bernstein
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Sweetest Fig by Chris Van Allsberg
The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto
How's it Going by Carl Anderson
Blubber by Judy Blume
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park
The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller
The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
My Name is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada