The document provides information about classroom activities and volunteer opportunities for Ms. Sinicropi's class at Crossroads Charter Academy in Big Rapids, MI. This week, students will learn about long vowel sounds in phonics and read a poem about neighborhood cleanup in reading. In writing, students will prepare poetry to share on Friday. Math lessons will focus on measuring, addition, subtraction, and patterns. Science lessons will cover body parts and organs. The document lists volunteer times and roles and announces upcoming parent-teacher conferences and a family science night.

1. Crossroads Charter
Academy
Big Rapids, MI
Ap r i l 8 , 2 0 1 3
Ms. Sinicropi’s Classroom News
This Week’s Highlights Homework – See back!
Phonics
We will learn about the long sounds that our vowels Volunteer Opportunities
make as in the words a, flu, so, hi, and we. We will
also continue to work on compound words,  10-10:45am (T-F) – Writing Time – We could use
manipulating sounds in words, alphabetizing, and help keeping our voices down, staying on task,
breaking apart the sounds in a word.
and writing the sounds we hear.
Reading
 11:35am (M-F) – We come in from lunch recess
We will read a poem called “Cleaning up the Block.”
It is about a neighborhood that works together. We and would love to have a guest reader!
will work on the comprehension skill of  12:15-1pm (M-F) – Work Station – We could use
visualization and the conventions of poetry. help keeping our noise level down, staying on
Writing task, and even someone to lead a station or two.
We will start fixing and fancying up our selected  1-1:30pm on (MWF) – Handwriting – We could
piece of poetry to share at our poetry celebration on use a couple volunteers to help us make sure we
Friday. We will be sharing with school staff and are taking our time and making letters correctly.
personnel that can come! It is nice to be able to break the kids up into small
Math groups and spread them amongst a few adults.
We will learn how to measure in inches and  2-2:40pm (M-F) – Snack/Show & Tell/Play – You
continue to work on addition, subtraction, and are more than welcome to join us during this time
patterns with objects and numbers. too!
Science/Social Studies
We will start learning about our bodies! This week
we will learn about our body parts and major
organs.
Special Notes Upcoming Events
Important Information & Forms  April 15-18 – Parent/Teacher Conferences
There is going to be a lot of important
information and forms sent home this week!
 April 19 – No School!
Please make sure you look over them so you
know what will be happening over the next
couple of months.  April 22 – Book Orders Due
 April 25 – Family Science Night 5-7pm

2. Homework BINGO
See if you can get 3 BINGO’s this week by completing activities on the board.
* I know these activities are starting to seem repetitive but they are still skills we
are trying to master!