Weekly Wave

Mrs. Varadys Second Grade Newsletter

February 17, 2012

Next Week
Reading: We will be reading the story The Emperors Egg and learning about penguins and other animals that live on the Earths poles. We will also talk about adding ly and ing to words. Writing: We will be writing about how our families care for us. We will begin a prompt in class Wednesday that will need to be finished and returned by Friday. Math: We will begin chapter 6, where students will learn to add three digit numbers. Science: We will be learning about penguins. Social Studies: We will be talking about Presidents Day and learning about Abraham Lincoln. Homework Calendar
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

News and Announcements

Permission slips for our Fishing for Success fieldtrip are in this weeks Friday folder. On Wednesday, March 21st we will be heading to UF fisheries for a day of fishing fun. Cost is $3 per student. (Chaperones are free.) See the back of the permission slip for more details. Our class will also be taking a tasty fieldtrip on March 2nd to Sonnys in Alachua. As soon as we are sure about times, permission slips will go home. (Keep an eye out for them in next weeks homework folder.) This fieldtrip will have no cost. We have some fun activities planned for the next two weeks in second grade! Students will be learning about penguins, doing reports on penguins, and making penguin presentations to the second grade!

No school

Spelling 3X each Math WS Read 20 minutes

Spelling WS

Creative Spelling

Presidents Day

Math WS Finish writing

(Due Fri.)

Math WS

Spelling Words: completely actually swimming eating standing freezing important nothing

doing slowly leaf dinner

taking starting leaves

Vocabulary Crossword

Read 20 minutes

Read 20 minutes

Nicole

Hailey

Max

Jacob

Wish list: Glue sticks Here are some things Pencil top we could really use 2007 by erasers World. Education World grants users permission to reproduce this work sheet for educational purposes only. Education for our class Paper towels

Vocabulary: flippers: small fins used like hands or feet hatch: to break out of an egg miserable: very unhappy Slippery: not sticky; causing sliding waddled: moved in a funny way, like a duck horizon: where the sky seems to meet the earth