1. Crossroads Charter
Academy
Big Rapids, MI
April 20, 2012
Mrs. Nawrot’s Classroom News
Class Info
This Week’s Academics
Spelling -  AR Reading – Students should be at 25% of
This week we focused on adding suffixes to their new AR goals.
words.
 April Character Trait- Our trait is
Gentleness and Humility.
Reading-
This week we progress monitored using Dibels.
 Scholastic Book Order- Last week we sent
Next week we will meet in Guided Reading
home a book order. It will be due on
groups, and begin reading Bridge to Terabithia
Tuesday, April 24. You can order online if
as a class.
you prefer using the Scholastic link on my
blog.
Writing-
Students will begin writing their Michigan
 Community Clean-Up- We will participate in
project rough drafts next week.
a Community Clean-Up effort during the
week of April 23-27. We will go out to the
Math-
school yard, the track, and the entry of our
Division test on Monday! Then we will begin a
building and do our part to freshen up our
unit on Measurement.
community. We will provide gloves and
trash bags for the students.
Social Studies-
This week we looked at WWII. We also looked
 Midterm for this Marking Period- Midterm
at how Michigan helped the war effort.
for this marking period is May 4th. Students
*We are walking in a Diabetes Walk next
are working hard to accomplish all that
week at 1:30 on Thursday. Students have
needs to be done by the end of the year!
envelopes to collect donations to raise
awareness.
 Awards Assembly- Next week we will have
our Awards assembly on Thursday at 2:15.
Special Notes Upcoming Events
MAP Test April 23 – Our first MAP test in the Com. Lab
Next week we will take our first of 3 MAP April 24 – Book Orders Due
tests. Students will test in Math, Reading, April 23-27 – Community Clean-Up Week
and Language Usage. This test shows us April 26 – Awards Assembly at 2:15
student growth during the school year. May 4 – Midterm of 4th Marking Period
Students will be given their personal goals May 7-10 – Parent & Teacher Conference Week
for this year on Monday. My hope is that May 11 – No School
May 16 – Field trip to Ludington State Park
students will see just how much they learned
this year!