{"id":758,"date":"2020-04-17T06:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=758"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:31:43","slug":"common-critters-the-wildlife-in-your-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/common-critters-the-wildlife-in-your-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Critters: The Wildlife in Your Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Common Critters: The Wildlife in Your Neighborhood<\/a>
\nby Pat Brisson (Author) and Dan Tavis (Illustrator) <\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> A familiar cast of characters–worms, slugs, caterpillars, ladybugs, robins, mourning doves, houseflies, spiders, squirrels, skunks, and others–crawls, runs, buzzes, and flits through this celebration of neighborhood wildlife in verse. The back matter has more information about the critters in the book and advice for writing poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2020 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

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Know any parents teaching school at home due to the pandemic?<\/em>
\nShare my makerspace (DIY)<\/a> articles published by the American Library Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Common Critters: The Wildlife in Your Neighborhood by Pat Brisson (Author) and Dan Tavis (Illustrator) Booktalk: A familiar cast of characters–worms, slugs, caterpillars, ladybugs, robins, mourning doves, houseflies, spiders, squirrels, skunks, and others–crawls, runs, buzzes, and flits through this celebration of neighborhood wildlife in verse. The back matter has more information about the critters in … <\/p>\n

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