Five new spelling core words came home yesterday in the planner.  They are: often,  together, asked, house, don’t.   Their words to learn list, or missed spelling word list, came home yesterday also.

              We started a new reading story Monday, Pop’s Bridge by Eve Bunting.  It is about the building of the San Fransisco bridge.  And how Robert is proud of his dad for building the bridge. He  also learns in the story that it takes a lot of people to build that bridge.  The vocabulary words for this story are: balancing, tide, foggy,crew, excitement, disappears, stretch,cling Have your child tell you the meanings of the words as they are used in the story! The comprehension skills we are working on include multiple meaning words, context clues, understanding character, comparing and contrasting, setting, drawing conclusions, making inferences, main idea & details, and summarizing.