Newsletter
- 1. Ms. Sinicropi’s Classroom News Crossroads Charter Academy Big Rapids, MI Fe br uar y 11, 2013 Upcoming Events Feb. 14 – Valentine’s Day Party 2-3pm Pajama Day (Free Out-of-Uniform!) Book Orders Due Feb. 15 & 18 – No School! Feb. 22 – Talent Show 7-9pm 10-10:45am (T-Th) – Writing Time – We could use help keeping our voices down, staying on task, and writing the sounds we hear. 11:35am (M-Th) – We come in from lunch recess and would love to have a guest reader! 12:15-1pm (M-Th) – Work Station – We could use help keeping our noise level down, staying on task, and even someone to lead a station or two. 1-1:30pm on (MW) – Handwriting – We could use a couple volunteers to help us make sure we are taking our time and making letters correctly. It is nice to be able to break the kids up into small groups and spread them amongst a few adults. 2-2:40pm (M-Th) – Snack/Show & Tell/Play – You are more than welcome to join us during this time too! Friday we will be having our Valentine’s Day party! Homework – See back! This Week’s Highlights Phonics We will be learning about the letter Yy and the sound it makes. Also, we will continue to work on producing words with specific sounds in them, alphabetizing, and listening for specific sounds in words. Reading We will begin our new unit called Red, White, and Blue with a story titled A Flag for Our Country. Also this week, we will be reading an informational story titled Patriotism. We will work on the comprehension skills making connections, informational text features, and main idea/details. Writing We will have our author’s celebration to celebrate the fantastic small moment stories we have been writing. We will also learn about adjectives and how we can use them in our writing. Math We will learn about capacity and continue to work with numbers 0-20, nickels, and story problems. Science/Social Studies We will learn about living and nonliving things and start learning about how living things go through different life cycles. Special Notes Valentine’s Party I am still in need of someone to supply the fruit tray and forks for our party this Friday. Let me know if you can help! Volunteer Opportunities
- 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! Work on the concept of place value, the idea that the number 23 is made of two groups of ten and 3 ones and can be represented like this: ▪▪▪ Practice identifying the middle and last sounds heard for 3 letter words. Practice identifying, ordering, and writing numbers 0-20. If your child can do all that then start working on numbers 21-30! Practice identifying name and worth and counting of coins (pennies, dimes, and nickels). On the top of a piece of paper, write one vowel and 6-8 consonants. Make words with your child, distinguishing between which ones are real or not real words. Stick to consonant vowel consonant words. Practice saying the sounds that make up a word. For example, forth would be /f/ /or/ /th/. Stick to 3-4 sound words. Practice acting out with objects simple addition and subtraction story problems using amounts up to 10. Write the number sentence for the problem (ex. 5 + 2 = 7). Practice counting as high as they can go. Also, practice counting by 2’s to 30 and 5’s to 100. Practice telling time to the hour & half hour and writing it.