{"id":4619,"date":"2011-08-19T01:36:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2011-08-19T01:36:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T06:36:01","slug":"friday-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/friday-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61bQOlp6SRL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/006057433X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=006057433X\">The Berenstain Bears Go on Vacation<\/a><br \/>\nby Stan Berenstain (Author), Mike Berenstain (Author) and Jan Berenstain (Author, Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> It&#8217;s summer vacation, and the Berenstain Bears are off to the seashore for sun and fun. (Last chance to read this before school starts next week!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>They see the sea.<br \/>\nThey hear it roar.<br \/>\nThere is something special<br \/>\nabout the shore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/poetry%20friday.jpg\" alt=\"Poetry Friday\" width=\"116\" height=\"79\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">This week&#8217;s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/dorireads.blogspot.com\/\">Dori Reads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51wzcrAU7aL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1602798435\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1602798435\">Junior Scientists: Experiment with Heat<\/a> (Science Explorer Junior)<br \/>\nby Sophie Lockwood (Author)<br \/>\n32 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Find out how scientists work by doing simple experiments. (It&#8217;s been over 100 degrees here for WEEKS so this seemed like a good book for all of the kids going back to school on Monday&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>We will use the scientific method to learn more about heat. Heat affects almost everything in our world. We feel it in our weather. We use it to prepare our food.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEM Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/stemfriday.tiny.jpg\" alt=\"STEM Friday\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It&#8217;s STEM Friday! (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<br \/>\nThis week&#8217;s STEM Friday Round-up is hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/simplyscience.wordpress.com\/\">Simply Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Book of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/blockparty.2x2.5.jpg\" alt=\"Block Party\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ez.block.party\">Block Party<\/a> by Anastasia Suen<br \/>\nA Bebop Easy Reader<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reading level:<\/strong> Guided Reading\u2122: E DRA: 6 Reading Recovery\u00ae: 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 16 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/books\/306\/pb\/block_party\">Bebop Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Join two friends, Tanya and Rosa, as they ride in a patriotic bike parade through their neighborhood and end up at fun-filled block party.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/barrio.2x2.5.jpg\" alt=\"Fiesta de barrio\" width=\"144\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also available in Spanish as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ez.barrio\">Fiesta de barrio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_135596_throw-block-party.html\">Host your own block party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a <a href=\"http:\/\/couponing.about.com\/od\/entertainment\/qt\/sumfuntip20.htm\"> block party for kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Use these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/images\/pdfs\/blockparty.pdf\">Block Party book lesson plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/6624Q\" target=\"_blank\">Free &#8220;back to school&#8221; e-books<\/a> including <em>Portable MFA<\/em>, <em>Organized Teacher, Happy Classroom<\/em>, (and 7 more!) til 8\/22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/672vj\" target=\"_blank\">Profiles of real scientists<\/a> at the Smithsonian make science come alive for students<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter --> My NEW book is here!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ch.read.write.sports\">Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8<\/a><br \/>\nCopyright \u00a9 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Book of the Day The Berenstain Bears Go on Vacation by Stan Berenstain (Author), Mike Berenstain (Author) and Jan Berenstain (Author, Illustrator) Booktalk: It&#8217;s summer vacation, and the Berenstain Bears are off to the seashore for sun and fun. (Last chance to read this before school starts next week!) Snippet: They see the sea. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/friday-reads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Reads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}