{"id":4672,"date":"2011-08-26T01:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T06:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2011-08-26T01:04:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T06:04:45","slug":"friday-reads-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/26\/friday-reads-2\/","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\/51WYOdfpiUL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590788303\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1590788303\">Birds of a Feather<\/a><br \/>\nby Jane Yolen (Author) and Jason Stemple (Photographer)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Poems about birds are accompanied by close-up, full-color photographs and fact boxes that describe each bird&#8217;s habits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Regal Eagle<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The regal eagle sits alone<br \/>\nupon a tree that serves as a throne.<\/em><br \/>\n________________________________________________________________________<\/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\/51gFs0bs0UL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/082257537X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=082257537X\">Gases, Pressure, and Wind: The Science of the Atmosphere<\/a> (Weatherwise)<br \/>\nPaul Fleisher (Author)<br \/>\n48 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> As Hurricane Irene bears down the Eastern United States, here is a book that explains how the ever-changing atmosphere determines weather around the globe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <em>Air may seem to be weightless. But gases do have mass. (Mass is the amount of matter, or substance, in something.) The total weight of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere is about 5,600 trillion (5,6000,000,000,000,000) tons (5,080 trillion metric tons)!<\/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=\"\" 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:\/\/www.irenelatham.blogspot.com\/\">Live. Love. Explore!<\/a><\/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=\"\" \/><\/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:\/\/picturebookday.wordpress.com\/\">Picture Book of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEM Friday video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robot Swarm Snatches Book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M2nn1X9Xlps\">video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M2nn1X9Xlps]<br \/>\n________________________________________________________________________<\/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 Birds of a Feather by Jane Yolen (Author) and Jason Stemple (Photographer) Booktalk: Poems about birds are accompanied by close-up, full-color photographs and fact boxes that describe each bird&#8217;s habits. 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