The document provides information about upcoming events and classroom updates from Mrs. Nawrot's class at Crossroads Charter Academy in Big Rapids, Michigan. It lists several field trips and activities happening in April, including a rummage sale, talent show tryouts, a trip to Grand Rapids, and a community clean-up week. It also provides updates on classroom academics like AR reading goals, spelling lessons on words ending in y, guided reading groups, writing research on Michigan topics, and a social studies test on Michigan history from 1900 on.

1. Mrs. Nawrot’s Classroom News
Crossroads Charter
Academy
Big Rapids, MI
April 13, 2012
Upcoming Events
April 14 – CCA Rummage Sale – HS Gym
April 16 and 17 – Talent Show Try-outs
April 19 – Grand Rapids Field Trip
April 24 – Book Orders Due
April 23-27 – Community Clean-Up Week
May 4 – Midterm of 4th Marking Period
May 7-10 – Parent & Teacher Conference Week
May 11 – No School
May 16 – Field trip to Ludington State Park
 AR Reading – Students should be at 10% of
their new AR goals.
 April Character Trait- Our trait is
Gentleness and Humility.
 Talent Show Tryouts- April 16 and 17th from
3:30-5:30. If you have not received your
scheduled time, please check in the office.
 Scholastic Book Order- I have included a
Scholastic book order today. It will be due
on Tuesday, April 24. You can order online
if you prefer using the Scholastic link on my
blog.
 Community Clean-Up- We will participate in
a Community Clean-Up effort during the
week of April 23-27. We will go out to the
school yard, the track, and the entry of our
building and do our part to freshen up our
community. We will provide gloves and
trash bags for the students.
 Midterm for this Marking Period- Midterm
for this marking period is May 4th. Students
are working hard to accomplish all that
needs to be done by the end of the year!
Class Info
This Week’s Academics
Special Notes
Grand Rapids Field Trip-
On Thursday, April 19th we will travel to
Grand Rapids to visit the museum, the
planetarium, and the Facing Mars Exhibit.
We will board the bus at 8am and plan to
return to the school at 3pm. Students must
provide a sack lunch, unless they ordered
one from the school on the permission slip.
Spelling -
This week we looked at words that end in
y, and how to correctly add suffixes. The
students realized that when a noun ends in
consonant-y, you have to “drop the y and
add –ies.”
Reading-
We have been working on our personal
reading books as well as meeting in our
guided reading groups this week. We read
stories about making ice cream, a squire,
the Hope Diamond, and how big a trillion
is.
Writing-
We have begun researching a specific
Michigan topic. Students will be wrapping
up their research next Monday. After our
research is complete we will begin to
outline our information and prepare to
write our Michigan Research Paper.
Math-
We are still working on Division! We will
wrap up our unit next week and take our
test the following week!
SocialStudies-
We are looking at MI from 1900 on. We will
have a test early next week over Chpt. 7.