The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great Gray Bridge

Even though you are small you can still help! This is the theme from our story this week. And Sam quickly identified this important theme during our book discussion. We have a class full of literary geniuses!
The book, The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, by Hildegarde Swift, tells a sweet story of the The Little Red Lighthouse which is actually the Jeffrey's Hook Light on the Hudson River. This lighthouse feels important until a great, big bridge is built right on the top of it (George Washington Bridge.)
The lighthouse thinks that it is no longer needed now that the bridge lets off light from its tall towers. But it is definitely wrong. The lighthouse saves the day in this classic story and realizes that although it is small, it is still needed!
After the story we watched a quick video that shows the actual bridge and lighthouse from the story! Irish said that when she moves to New York she will be able to go see it! How exciting!
This story was a perfect example of personification. We saw the boats, lighthouse, bridge and fog all take on human characteristics. The fog had hands that would try to grasp the boats below. It was spooky!
We talked about the job of lighthouses and made our own lighthouse complete with eyes to demonstrate our personification skills.