{"id":4682,"date":"2011-08-30T01:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T06:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2011-08-30T01:10:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T06:10:21","slug":"a-dieting-dog-math-and-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/a-dieting-dog-math-and-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dieting Dog, Math, and Electricity"},"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\/51BYZ2jhYLL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0761458093\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0761458093\">My Dog Jack is Fat<\/a><br \/>\nby Eve Bunting (Author) and Michael Rex (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Jack the dog needs to lose weight. How can his owner help? (This story is told in <em>comic book<\/em> speech bubbles.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>VET: Oh, dear. Jack has gained 10 pounds.<br \/>\nJACK THE DOG: This can&#8217;t be good.<\/em><\/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\/51JJLHRs9gL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374364117\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0374364117\">Saraswati&#8217;s Way<\/a><br \/>\nby Monika Schr\u00f6der (Author)<br \/>\n240 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> If the gods wanted Akash to have an education, he is told, they would give him one. But Akash has spent his entire twelve years in India poor and hungry. So he decides to take<\/p>\n<p>control of his own life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <em>The students called out the answers in a loud chorus: 45, 54, 63. When would they see the pattern? It was so easy, once you saw the pattern in the numbers. Akash cited them <\/em><\/p>\n<p>backwards in his mind, 81, 72, 63, 54, then added the mulitplication products in his head, starting from the lowest.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>BONUS!<\/em><\/strong> See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NQ0v58VKUZY\">video<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NQ0v58VKUZY]<\/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\/wired.3x4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=pb.wired\">Wired<\/a> by Anastasia Suen<br \/>\nA picture book about electricity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Copyright:<\/strong> 2007<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dewey Decimal Number:<\/strong> 621.319<\/li>\n<li><strong>ATOS Level:<\/strong> 5.1<\/li>\n<li><strong>AR Quiz Number:<\/strong> 117617<\/li>\n<li><strong>Library Binding \/ Paperback<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesbridge.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=4650\">Charlesbridge Publishing <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;By sticking consistently to the topic of how electricity reaches the home without trying to cover history, trivia, or more complex science, the fundamental information comes through in an appealing way that kids can fully understand.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014 <em>School Library Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make a battery:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.thinkquest.org\/6064\/exper.html\">with a lemon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunkinsexperiments.com\/pages\/batteries.htm\">with coins or three potatoes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiles.larc.nasa.gov\/text\/kids\/D_Lab\/activities\/battery_3rd.html\">a lemon and an old penny.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Try the electricity <strong>word search<\/strong>, <strong>criss-cross<\/strong> and <strong>double puzzles<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/school.discoveryeducation.com\/curriculumcenter\/electricity\/wordplay.html\">Discovery Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Games Page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyquest.ca.gov\/games\/index.html\">Energy Quest<\/a> for an energy <strong>word search<\/strong>, <strong>crossword<\/strong>, <strong>jigsaw puzzles<\/strong> and more!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/kids\/energy_fungames\/index.html\">Energy Kids<\/a> page has <strong>riddles<\/strong>, online <strong>field trips<\/strong>, <strong>wordsearch<\/strong> and <strong>crossword puzzles<\/strong>, an energy source <strong>sudoku<\/strong>, and a <strong>scavenger hunt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theteacherscorner.net\/thematicunits\/magnets.htm\">Teacher&#8217;s Corner<\/a> extensive list of electricity <strong>lessons and experiments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How To <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ovQi15\">Convert PDFs<\/a> to ePub or Kindle Files &#8211; eBookNewser<\/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 My Dog Jack is Fat by Eve Bunting (Author) and Michael Rex (Illustrator) Booktalk: Jack the dog needs to lose weight. How can his owner help? (This story is told in comic book speech bubbles.) Snippet: VET: Oh, dear. Jack has gained 10 pounds. JACK THE DOG: This can&#8217;t be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/a-dieting-dog-math-and-electricity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Dieting Dog, Math, and Electricity<\/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-4682","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\/4682","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=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}