1. Crossroads Charter
Academy
Big Rapids, MI
November 12, 2012
Ms. Sinicropi’s Classroom News
This Week’s Highlights Homework – See back!
Phonics
Volunteer Opportunities
We will learn about the letter Ii and the short sound
it makes and in big. We will learn how to count the
words in a sentence and continue to work on
recognizing specific letter sounds, thinking of words  10-10:45am (T,W,F) – Writing Time – We could
that contain a specific sound, and syllables. use help keeping our voices down, staying on
Reading task, and writing the sounds we hear.
We will read a story titled The Lonely Prince about a  11:35am (M,T,W,F) – We come in from lunch
boy who has everything he could ever want and is recess and would love to have a guest reader!
still not happy. What he really wants is a friend! We  12:15-1pm (M,T,W,F) – Work Station – We could
will work on the comprehension skills of retelling use help keeping our noise level down, staying on
and drawing conclusions. task, and even someone to lead a station or two.
Writing  1-1:30pm on (M, W, F) – Handwriting – We could
We will start a new unit on writing small moment use a couple volunteers to help us make sure we
stories. We will learn that we can discover tiny seed are taking our time and making letters correctly.
stories to write about from big watermelon topics. It is nice to be able to break the kids up into small
Math groups and spread them amongst a few adults.
We will continue working on the concepts of  2-2:40pm (M,T,W,F) – Snack/Show & Tell/Play –
counting and measurement. You are more than welcome to join us during this
Science/Social Studies time too!
We will learn more about towns and capitals.
Upcoming Events
 Nov. 12 – Veteran’s Day Program 6:30pm
(K-6) Be to HS by 6:10pm
Special Notes
 Nov. 13 – Ms. Sinicropi will have a sub!
Warm Clothing Reminder
Please make sure you are sending your child  Nov. 15 – No School!
to school with the appropriate outdoor attire.
The temperature is starting to drop and our  Nov. 19 – Book Orders Due
recess time is getting chillier each day! They
should at least be coming in a winter coat  Nov. 21 – ½ Day & Start of Thanksgiving
and with a hat and gloves. Break!
 Nov. 22 & 23 – Thanksgiving Break Continued

2. Homework BINGO
See if you can get 3 BINGO’s this week by completing
activities on the board.
Practice producing
rhyming words! Also,
give them words and Practice counting the
Practice reading any have them tell you the syllables in words (parts
little books your child first sound they hear in a word). For ex.
has brought home. (ex. goat…./g/). If good giraffe would have 2 –
at that, have them tell gir-affe.
you last sound!
Practice writing a
Using the letters l, o, g,
sentence, making sure
h, t, p, n, m, and i, make
Practice counting as you bubble gum your
simple three letter
high as they can go. words (stretch out
words and practice
Also, practice counting slowly to hear each
decoding (sounding out
backwards from 10 and sound). Also, use capital
each letter and then
forwards by 10’s to 100. letter at beginning,
blending them
spaces between words,
together) them to read.
and punctuation.
Read a story and talk
about it at the end,
retelling what happened
Practice writing name Practice writing the
in the beginning, middle,
with only the first letters I and i, while
and end. Also, discuss
letter capitalized. saying their short sound
the characters, setting
as in big.
(where the story takes
place), problem, and
solution.