This document provides a weekly newsletter from Ms. Sinicropi's kindergarten classroom at Crossroads Charter Academy in Big Rapids, Michigan. It outlines the upcoming week's lessons and highlights in phonics, reading, writing, math, science, and volunteer opportunities. Students are assigned homework involving practicing letter sounds, rhyming words, sequencing events, color patterns, name writing, and calendar reading. Upcoming school events include vision screenings, book orders due, parent-teacher conferences, no school days, picture day, and a possible harvest party.

1. Crossroads Charter
Academy
Big Rapids, MI
October 8, 2012
Ms. Sinicropi’s Classroom News
This Week’s Highlights Homework – See backside!
Phonics
We will learn about the letter Tt and the sound it Volunteer Opportunities
makes. Also, we will continue to work on producing
words that begin with a specific sound, identifying  10-10:45am (T-F) – Writing Time – We could use
beginning sounds in words, compound words, and help keeping our voices down, staying on task, and
identifying sounds heard when two consonants are
writing the sounds we hear.
said together.
 11:35am (M-F) – We come in from lunch recess and
Reading would love to have a guest reader!
We will begin a new unit called Shadows. It is
 12:15-1pm (M-F) – Work Station – We could use
introduced with a story titled What Makes a
Shadow? Our reading story for the week will be a
help keeping our noise level down, staying on task,
non-fiction story titled Shadows. We will work on and even someone to lead a station or two.
the comprehension skills of cause and effect.  1-1:30pm on (M,W,F) – Handwriting – We could
use a couple volunteers to help us make sure we
Writing
We will learn how to use our topic pockets to store
are taking our time and making letters correctly. It
writing ideas for later. We will also learn about is nice to be able to break the kids up into small
onomatopoeia (sound words like bzzzz) and how groups and spread them amongst a few adults.
we can use them in our writing. Towards the end of  2-2:40pm (M-F) – Snack/Show & Tell/Play – You
the week, we will learn how to spread our story are more than welcome to join us during this time
over several pages and write books. too!
Math
We will learn a new game called Beat You to Ten,
start using frogs to count with, and learn about
work places (they are like math centers). Upcoming Events
Science/Social Studies  Oct. 10 – Vision Screenings
We will learn about the helpers in our community
Special Notes
and the special jobs they have.  Oct. 15 – Book Orders Due!
CCA Blood Drive @ HS/MS
 Oct. 15-18 – Parent/Teacher Conferences
Conferences
Please get your conference request sheet back
to me if you haven’t already!  Oct. 19 – No School!
 Oct. 25 – Picture Day
 Nov. 2 – (Possible Date) Harvest Party 2-3pm

2. Homework BINGO
See if you can get 3 BINGO’s this week by completing activities on the
board.
Practice identifying and
counting pennies from 1-
10¢. Show them
Practice counting as
different amounts and
high as they can go. Word Families
have them write the
Also, practice counting (see attached sheet)
total, ex. 5¢.
backwards from 10.
*If they can work with
amounts higher than
10¢, go for it!
Practice producing
rhyming words! Also,
Sequencing Events give them words and Reading the Calendar
(see attached sheet) have them tell you the (see attached sheet)
first sound they hear.
(ex. goat…./g/)
Practice writing name
Color Patterns Practice writing the
with only the first
(see attached sheet) letters T and t, while
letter capitalized.
saying their sound.