The document provides information about upcoming events and volunteer opportunities at Crossroads Charter Academy in Big Rapids, MI. It includes details on field trips, volunteer consent forms, volunteer time slots, and classroom highlights and lessons for the week on phonics, reading, writing, math, and science/social studies. Homework involves a BINGO board with activities like counting, storytelling, sorting, and identifying shapes and colors.

1. The Weekly Hoot Crossroads Charter
Academy
Big Rapids, MI
September 9, 2013
Upcoming Events
 Sept. 16 – Book Orders Due
 Oct. 2 – Lewis Farm Market Field Trip
 Oct. 4 – Fire Safety Assembly 9am
 Oct. 18 – No School!
 Oct. 24 – Picture Day
Homework – See back!
This Week’s Highlights
Special Notes
Field Trip!!
The field trip permission slip and information is coming
home today. Please fill it out as soon as you can and return
with money. If you need help with this cost, please let us
know!
Volunteer Consent Form
Make sure you fill out and return a volunteer consent form
if you plan to go on field trips or help in our classroom!
You will not be able to do so if that is not done. Let me
know if you need one sent home!
Volunteer Opportunities
 10:10-10:50am (T-F) – Writing Time – We could use
help keeping our voices down, staying on task, and
writing the sounds we hear.
 11:35-11:45am (M-F) – We come in from lunch recess
and would love to have a guest reader!
 12:15-12:30pm on (MWF) – 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.
 12:30-1:15pm (M-F) – Work Stations – We could use
help keeping our noise level down, staying on task,
and even someone to lead a station or two.
 2-2:40pm (M-F) – Snack/Show & Tell/Math Stations –
You are more than welcome to join us during this time
too!
Ms. Sinicropi & Miss Nixon
“Owl” Good in Miss Nixon’s Nest
This is where I will be writing a short, little blurp about
how the week has gone and what's going on in the
classroom, from the student teacher’s eyes. The school
year is officially underway! We all had a super week
learning the ways of the classroom and school. This
week we made a Clifford magnet, to help focus on the
color red.
~ Miss Nixon ~
Phonics
We will learn about the letter Ll and the sound it makes. Also,
we will learn to distinguish between sounds that are the same
and different, about vowels and consonants, and how to echo
sounds heard.
Reading
We will read a story titled Look Out Kindergarten, Here I
Come! It is about a mouse that is a little nervous about his first
day of school. We will work on the comprehension skills of
predicting, answering questions, and sequencing of events.
Writing
We will learn how to draw different kinds of lines so we can
draw pictures for our stories the best we can. Also, we will
learn how to be storytellers because that is where we get our
writing ideas from!
Math
We will continue learning how to sort and graph. Also, we will
learn how to count by 5’s, about combinations of 5, how to
represent #’s to 5 with our fingers and other objects, and
writing the #’s 1-5.
Science/Social Studies
We will start our unit called “All About Me”! We will begin
working on our “All About Me” packets.

2. Homework BINGO
See if you can get 3 BINGO’s this week by completing activities on the board.
Practice counting to 10
or as high as your child
can go!
Read a story and make
connections between
your child’s life and the
story.
Practice being a speaker
and listener through
storytelling.
Find things around your
house that are in the
shape of a square!
Practice counting
amounts of 1-10
objects.
Sorting the Laundry
*see attached sheet
Practice writing the
letter Ll and saying the
sound it makes.
Practice drawing a
detailed picture.
Find things around your
house that are red!