Our new reading story is Pop’s Bridge by Eve Bunting.  This story is about a young boy, Robert, who thinks his dad has one of the more important and dangerous jobs of all the crew members working to build the Golden Gate Bridge.  However, Robert is forced to rethink things after an accident.

 The vocabulary words that go along with this story are the following:

crew ~ a group of people doing work

tide ~ the rise and fall of the sea

cling ~ stick to or hand on tightly

balancing ~ keeping steady

foggy ~ that there is thick mist or low  clouds

disappears ~ something passes from sight

stretch ~ to extend or spread out

excitement ~ a feeling of great happiness

The comprehension skills that we will be focusing on are comparing/contrasting and cause/effect. We will also continue to work with prefixes and suffixes.