Mrs. Nawrot's class will be recognizing students for responsibility and respect this week. There will be no school during parent-teacher conferences in mid-October. Students are working on revisions to autobiographies in writing and learning place value in math. MAP testing will finish next week to measure student growth.

1. Crossroads Charter
Academy
Big Rapids, MI
September 21,
2012
Mrs. Nawrot’s Classroom News
Class News
This Week’s Academics  September Character Awards- We will be
Spelling recognizing students who have especially
We have had our Unit 2 test and students will be shown Respect and Responsibility at our
receiving their tests on Monday. Students will be
awards assembly on Thursday at 2:15.
assigned their own list of words to practice and they
will be assigned activities for all of next week.
Reading  Schedule Change- We will be having Parent
Next week we will be reading a story, Sarah, Plain and teacher Conferences the week of Oct. 15-18.
Tall. We are reading aloud from the chapter book, The There will be no school on Oct. 19. Mark
Mouse and the Motorcycle. your calendars with our schedule change. 
Writing
Next week we will work on the revisions for our  Lollipop Day- Next Friday will be a treat day
autobiography papers. We will be looking at our with our PTO. Students may bring in $.50 to
ideas and our details. Students should have a final
draft done Wednesday or Thursday.
purchase a treat.
Math
As we start our second unit of the year we will be
 Boxtops- We have already counted and
looking at Place Value and how to write numbers sorted more than $260 in Boxtops. If you
using words. have not yet begun to save these for CCA
Social Studies please start now. PTO supplies many
Next week we will finish our Government unit on wonderful things for our students with the $
Tuesday. Students will then be visiting Mrs. Benson that is raised.
for their first Science unit starting on Wednesday.
Special Notes  Enjoy your weekend!
MAP Testing – Next week we wrap up the Upcoming Events
MAP test with our Language Usage section.
This will be a beginning of the year • Sept. 21 – CCA Homecoming football
measurement, which will help us monitor
game
student growth.
• Sept. 27 – Character Awards Assembly
Check out our class blog at • Sept. 27 – MAP Testing at 12:40
http://mrsnawrot.blogspot.com/ • Oct. 5 – Midterm of the Marking Period
• Oct. 15-18 – Parent Teacher Conferences
• Oct. 19 – No School
• Oct. 25 - Picture Day
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