Picture Book of the Day
UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings
by Douglas Florian (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Come inside the honeycomb—a busy, buzzy, bee-filled home—and learn about the unexpected wonders of these tiny insects’ lifestyles, families, and communities.
Snippet:
Bee-coming
From egg I hatch in just three days,
Bee-ginning my new larval phase.
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STEM Friday
It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
come share your link or a STEM haiku of your own!
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Chapter Book of the Day
Under the Mesquite
by Guadalupe Garcia Mccall (Author)
224 pages
Booktalk: When Lupita learns Mami has cancer, she is terrified by the possibility of losing her mother, the anchor of her close-knit family. Suddenly, being a high school student, starring in a play, and dealing with friends who don’t always understand, become less important than doing whatever she can to save Mami’s life.
Snippet:
But lately Mami’s changed.
A thorny mesquite has sprouted
in the middle of her rose garden.
Even after she has pulled it out
by its roots repeatedly,
pricking herself on its thorns each time,
it keeps growing back.
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Poetry Friday
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Random Noodling.
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STEM Haiku
sunrise, sunset
sunrise, sunset, and
the world turns around and
does it again…sunrise…
© 2012 Anastasia Suen
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Nonfiction Monday on April 23, 2012
Nonfiction Monday is coming!
The Nonfiction Monday Round-up on April 23, 2012
is at Books 4 Learning.
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Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8
Copyright © 2012 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
I have seen something about that book, Under the Mesquite before, Anastasia, but can’t quite remember. Your snippet & summary made me want to seek it out. Those words in the example are such a metaphor, I guess, for the cancer. Wow. And I like your Stem haiku-going round and round.