{"id":5320,"date":"2012-03-13T01:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T06:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2012-03-13T01:05:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T06:05:23","slug":"here-comes-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/here-comes-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes the Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Book of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/bus.2.5x2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ez.bus\">Here Comes the Bus<\/a> by Anastasia Suen<br \/>\nA Bebop Easy Reader<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reading level:<\/strong> Guided Reading\u2122: B DRA: 2 Intervention: 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 8 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/books\/344\/pb\/here_comes_the_bus\">Bebop Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Chinese American girl takes the bus to school and greets her friends, one by one, at each stop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/autobus.2.5x2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also available in Spanish as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ez.autobus\">Ya viene el autob\u00fas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use the <strong>lesson plans<\/strong> from the 91 page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isbe.state.il.us\/Funding\/pdf\/bus_safety_teach_guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois School Bus Safety Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.first-school.ws\/activities\/crafts\/transportation\/school_bus.htm\" target=\"_blank\">First School<\/a> has school bus <strong>music<\/strong>, <strong>coloring pages<\/strong>, <strong>crafts<\/strong>, and online <strong>games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Play the online <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.ncsu.edu\/GHSP\/NCBUSSAFETY.html\" target=\"_blank\">School Bus Safety Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysgtsc.state.ny.us\/kids.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic Safety Kid&#8217;s Page<\/a> for <strong>coloring pages<\/strong>, <strong>puzzles<\/strong> and a <strong>word scramble<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/facs.pppst.com\/schoolbussafety.html\" target=\"_blank\">Free Bus Safety Presentations in PowerPoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Use these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/images\/pdfs\/Here_Comes_The_Bus_TG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">lesson plans<\/a> with your class.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/images\/spreads\/9781584309918\/spread-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">See inside the book<\/a><br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51UXMura2FL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060501979\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060501979\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/a><br \/>\nby Anne Rockwell (Author) and Lizzy Rockwell (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Mrs. Madoff&#8217;s class celebrates St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> On St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, I wore my green shirt, green pants, and even my green striped socks. Pablo wore green sneakers.<br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51XuAVq2ntL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0807563595\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0807563595\">Tails of Spring Break<\/a><br \/>\nby Anne Warren Smith (Author)<br \/>\n128 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Everyone, it seems, is going somewhere fun for spring break-everyone except Katie Jordan and her family. Even her best friend, Sierra, is going to Hawaii! But then Katie realizes she&#8217;s not the only one being left behind-what about all those poor lonely pets? And so Katie sets out to save her spring break with a pet-sitting business. But Katie hadn&#8217;t bargained on having a business partner-especially not someone as awful as Claire Plummer!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> On the last day of school before spring vacation, it sounded like almost every kid in my fourth grade class was getting away from Oregon. They were going places where the sun was shining. Places like Disneyland and San Diego. Even Hawaii!<br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research Shows that Books without Text Can <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/w5QfxV\">Increase Literacy, Vocabulary Skills<\/a> in Children with Developmental Disabilities<\/p>\n<p>Join @CBCBook in celebration of the 93rd annual <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bYT2P\">Children&#8217;s Book Week, May 7-13<\/a>, 2012! #CBW<br \/>\n__________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myubam.com\/thumbnails\/670029.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!-- 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 chapter book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myubam.com\/ecommerce\/details.asp?sid=NEW&amp;gid=131405690&amp;title=All-Star+Cheerleaders%3A+Just+So%2C+Brianna+%28Book+3%29&amp;sqlwhere=submit%3Dsearch%26search%3Dbrianna\">Just So, Brianna<\/a> (All-Star Cheerleaders)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Book of the Week Here Comes the Bus by Anastasia Suen A Bebop Easy Reader Reading level: Guided Reading\u2122: B DRA: 2 Intervention: 2 Paperback: 8 pages Publisher: Bebop Books A Chinese American girl takes the bus to school and greets her friends, one by one, at each stop. Also available in Spanish as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/here-comes-the-bus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here Comes the Bus<\/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":[6,7,9,12,14,17,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-by-anastasia-suen","category-chapter-book-of-the-day","category-easy-readers","category-education","category-literacy","category-news","category-picture-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","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=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}