Weekly Newsletter

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                 Mrs. Christy's Second Grade Newsletter                     
                 
Week of February 13-17, 2012
Tuesday, Feb. 14th, will be our Valentine's Day sharing.  Be sure to send in your addressed valentines by Tuesday.
IF WE HAVE A SNOW DAY, there will be extra work for your child to work on while at home.  Please review the weekly reading story and spelling words, too.  
Reading:  The Pine Park Mystery   a play: setting, characters, props, narrator
               Vocabulary: caused, confused, sign, cornered, removes, park, object, clasp, typical, near, isn't, maybe.  
               Skill:  Identifying plot of a story
               
Spelling:  remove, return, recycle, replace, recall, preheat, prepay, preschool, preview, prefix, swimming, doing, maybe, near, park.    15 words for spelling test on  Friday each week.  Check out www.spellingcity.com for practice games.

Language Arts:  Using dialogue in our writing (using quotation marks).

Math:  Review adding 2 and 3 digit numbers without regrouping (carrying).  Work on subtracting  2-digit numbers with and without renaming (borrowing).  Subtracting money. 

Science:    Complete unit on Fossils and Dinosaurs
SOCIAL STUDIES:  Unit on America Long Ago.
Encore Schedule:   Monday:          Library 
                                Tuesday:          PE 
                                Wednesday:    Computer Lab
                                Thursday:        Music 
                                Friday:             Guidance