Second Grade
Worksheets
Baba's Blini
International Pancake Day
Reading Comprehension for February 28
Vera waited for the snow.
Vera wished for the snow.
Vera waited and waited and wished and wished.
If only it would snow!
Vera wanted some of her grandmother's special pancakes.
Every year Baba Nina makes pancakes on the first day of snow.
The pancakes are special. Baba Nina makes thin, sweet pancakes called blini. She folds them into fourths. She dips them in honey or jelly. Sometimes she puts sour cream on them. Sometimes she puts soft white sugar on them.
Vera loves her grandmother's pancakes.
When Baba Nina was a little girl, she lived in Russia. Her mother taught her to make blini.
