{"id":538,"date":"2019-09-20T06:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=538"},"modified":"2019-09-15T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T22:52:56","slug":"silent-swoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/silent-swoop\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Swoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SWOOP_COVER2.jpg?resize=355%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9650\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LWjmnC\">Silent Swoop: An Owl, an Egg, and a Warm Shirt Pocket<\/a><br \/>\nby Michelle Houts (Author) and Deb Hoeffner (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> An owl swoops down to lay her egg in a coal yard&#8211;a dangerous spot for a fragile egg! Rescued by Walter, a bird expert with a big heart and warm shirt pocket, the egg miraculously hatches and is aptly named Coal. <em>Additional pages of science information, literacy connections, and STEM activities can be found in the back of the book<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SWOOP_B1-595x363.jpg?resize=525%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9651\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SWOOP_B2-595x363.jpg?resize=525%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9652\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BONUS! Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpub.com\/activity\/silent-swoop-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Science and Engineering Activities<\/a><\/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 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent Swoop: An Owl, an Egg, and a Warm Shirt Pocket by Michelle Houts (Author) and Deb Hoeffner (Illustrator) Booktalk: An owl swoops down to lay her egg in a coal yard&#8211;a dangerous spot for a fragile egg! Rescued by Walter, a bird expert with a big heart and warm shirt pocket, the egg miraculously &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/silent-swoop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silent Swoop&#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-538","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-8G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1534,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/night-owl-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":538,"position":0},"title":"Night Owl Night","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"October 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Night Owl Night by Susan Edwards Richmond (Author) and Maribel Lechuga (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Sova\u2019s mother is a scientist who studies birds and their migratory patterns. 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