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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