{"id":1355,"date":"2022-09-09T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2022-09-08T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:28:04","slug":"good-night-to-your-fantastic-elastic-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/good-night-to-your-fantastic-elastic-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Night to Your Fantastic Elastic Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18331\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/goodnightbrain.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Good Night to Your Fantastic Elastic Brain<\/em><br \/>\nby JoAnn Deak (Author), Terrence Deak (Author), and Neely Daggett (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3TU3ILK\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781728220284\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781728220284?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk: <\/strong>Go to sleep and grow your brain!<\/p>\n<p>During the day, your brain helps you do things like eat, walk, play with friends, and learn new things\u2015and using your brain helps it stretch and get stronger. But did you know that you have the power to grow and train your brain just by going to sleep? In fact, while you&#8217;re resting, your brain is doing some of its most important work!<\/p>\n<p>Learn about the important jobs your brain does at night like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Locking in what you learned during the day<\/li>\n<li>Resetting itself so that it&#8217;s ready when you wake up<\/li>\n<li>Even taking a bath to make sure it&#8217;s clean and healthy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/goodnightbrain-960x480.webp?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18334\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Night to Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak (Author), Terrence Deak (Author), and Neely Daggett (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Go to sleep and grow your brain! During the day, your brain helps you do things like eat, walk, play with friends, and learn new things\u2015and using your brain helps &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/good-night-to-your-fantastic-elastic-brain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Night to Your Fantastic Elastic Brain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-lR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1746,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/healthy-brain\/","url_meta":{"origin":1355,"position":0},"title":"Healthy Brain","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"January 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Healthy Brain (Healthy and Happy) by Peggy Snow (Author) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: This middle grade book shares six steps kids can take to lead happy and healthy lives by maintaining healthy brains. 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