{"id":1361,"date":"2022-09-23T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2022-09-22T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T22:39:11","slug":"usha-y-la-gran-excavadora-usha-and-the-big-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/usha-y-la-gran-excavadora-usha-and-the-big-digger\/","title":{"rendered":"Usha y la Gran Excavadora \/ Usha and the Big Digger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ushagranbig-960x960.jpg?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18396\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Usha y la Gran Excavadora \/ Usha and the Big Digger<\/em><br \/>\nby Amitha Jagannath Knight (Author),  Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator), and Luisana Duarte Armend\u00e1riz (Translator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3UrT3IF\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781623542177\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781623542177?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> In this bilingual Spanish\/English edition, when sisters Usha and Aarti look up at the stars, they see different things. Aarti sees the Big Dipper, but Usha sees the Big DIGGER. And cousin Gloria sees the Big Kite! Could they all be right? A playful introduction to geometry and spatial relationships, featuring Indian American characters and a note about cultures and constellations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\nA Usha le encantaba los camiones.<br \/>\nLos hacia chocar y rodar.<\/p>\n<p>Usha loved trucks.<br \/>\nShe made them bump and roll. <\/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>Usha y la Gran Excavadora \/ Usha and the Big Digger by Amitha Jagannath Knight (Author), Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator), and Luisana Duarte Armend\u00e1riz (Translator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: In this bilingual Spanish\/English edition, when sisters Usha and Aarti look up at the stars, they see different things. Aarti sees the Big Dipper, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/usha-y-la-gran-excavadora-usha-and-the-big-digger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Usha y la Gran Excavadora \/ Usha and the Big Digger&#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-1361","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-lX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1272,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-cottonwood-tree\/","url_meta":{"origin":1361,"position":0},"title":"The Cottonwood Tree","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"May 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Cottonwood Tree by Serena Mangus (Author) and Anait Semirdzhyan (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Cottonwood trees grow throughout North America and play a critical role in their ecosystems. 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