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Happy National STEM/STEAM Day! Check out these great teaching ideas from National Agriculture in the Classroom "Book Spotlight" on The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter bit.ly/36e9wYE & Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table bit.ly/36eHhsEw ... Good discussions on bees, pollination, aquaponics, hydroponics and vermicomposting. . . #STEM #STEAM #NationalSTEMDay #ScienceEducation #Bees #Pollinators #Pollination #Aquaponics #Hydroponics #Vermicomposting #Farming #UrbanFarming #UrbanFarmer #AgClassroom #AITC #AgLiteracy #FoodLiteracy #FoodEducation #DiverseBooks #KidLit National Science Teaching Association California Association of Science Educators Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Cooperative Children's Book Center Wisconsin School Garden Network Whole Kids Foundation Detroit Hives The Pollinator Partnership FoodCorps Edible Schoolyard NYC Soul Fire Farm Common Threads Farm Multicultural Children's Book Day The Children's Book Council

Happy National STEM/STEAM Day! November is also National Bread Month! Turn the kitchen into a labspecifically a bread lab!by learning about plant science and fermentation, and share the book, Bread Lab, fun read to introduce food science to the young baker. https://bit.ly/2GeoTqO See Bread Lab co-author, Kim Binczewski, who is also managing director of the Washington State University Bread Lab, discuss the book, the lab, and their latest project, The Approachable Loaf, by ...partnering with bakers, millers, plant breeders, teachers and students to bring nutritious and affordable whole wheat sandwich loaf. http://bit.ly/37HRXi0 Co-author Dr. Bethany Econopouly, did her Ph.D. work in crop and soil science at WSU Bread Lab. More on #WSUBreadLab @ http://bit.ly/2vRwVvH "Sensory details of sounds, smells and tastes throughout the story intrigue readers and the facts about bread are organically introduced... A fun way to introduce food science and bread making to young readers." Kirkus Reviews "I LOVE how this book shows the intersection between plant science, crops, and delicious food. Not only is it a great story, but it shows the interdependence of farmers, scientists, and eaters (which of course we all are). That pretty much sums up the goal of agricultural literacy!" Rhodora Collins, Agricultural Literacy Coordinator, DeKalb County Farm Bureau . . #NationalSTEMDay #STEM #STEAM #ScienceEducation #BreadLab #WSUBreadLab #WomenInScience #PlantScience #FoodScience #Fermentation #Microbes #WholeWheat #WholeGrain #SourdoughStarter #Bread #Baking #FoodEducation #SensoryEducation #FarmToSchool #AgClassroom #AgLiteracy #AITC National Agriculture in the Classroom Georgia Farm Bureau Washington Ag in the Classroom Washington State Department of Agriculture Kansas Department of Agriculture Kansas Wheat California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAITC) National Farm to School Network National Science Teaching Association WSTA-Washington Science Teachers Association National Wheat Foundation King Arthur Baking Company

November is Family Literacy Month! Great time to read together but also a terrific occasion to listen together. Check out these READERS to EATERS audiobooks produced by our friends at Live Oak Media, including: The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix... Sylvia's Spinach (also Spanish edition, LAS ESPINACAS DE SYLVIA) Zora's Zucchini The latest is THE THING ABOUT BEES, read by author/illustrator Shabazz Larkinwith a little help from his family!an AudioFile Magazine "Earphones Award" winner. Read the review and hear a sample @ https://bit.ly/38FCUYm. Ask for these #RecordedBooks to download from your library. . . #FamilyLiteracy #FamilyLiteracyMonth #FamilyReading #FamilyListening #FoodLiteracy #FamilyCooking #FamilyGardening #KidLit National Council of Teachers of English Reading Rockets Cooperative Children's Book Center CBC Books Publisher Spotlight The Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC

National STEM/STEAM Day is this Sunday, November 8! See this terrific list from First Book celebrating Diversity in STEM (https://bit.ly/352fjko) including The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table... Sylvia's Spinach (also in Spanish, LAS ESPINACAS DE SYLVIA) Zora's Zucchini (also in Spanish, LAS CALABACITAS DE ZORA) We like to add one more of our favorite, Bread Lab, a fun look at food science, with a tasty whole wheat sourdough recipe, just in time for November National Bread Month. http://bit.ly/2sq7Vdp Be sure to download First Book's useful 2020-2021 Diversity in STEM calendar, available in English and Spanish, created in partnership with the Aerospace Industries Association. https://bit.ly/352fjko . . #STEM #STEAM #NationalSTEMDay #DiversityInSTEM #ScienceEducation #FoodScience #FoodLiteracy #FarmToSchool #AgClassroom #AgLiteracy #AITC #DiverseBooks #ReadYourWorld National Science Teaching Association WSTA-Washington Science Teachers Association National Science Council The Children's Book Council National Farm to School Network National Agriculture in the Classroom California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAITC) Life Lab Center for Ecoliteracy

National STEM/STEAM Day is this Sunday, November 8. See the history and discussion on need to educate children on science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics skills. https://bit.ly/2TV5heN Share these books for a fresh look at science in our everyday lives, from the kitchen to the garden: Bread Lab (Nov is also #NationalBreadMonth) The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter... Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table https://bit.ly/2AinZWQ (Listen to the BEES and FARMER WILL ALLEN #audiobook from Live Oak Media.) . . #STEM #STEAM #NationalSTEMDay #ScienceEducation #GardenEducation #FoodEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #SensoryEducation #MakerEducation #BreadLab #FarmToSchool #AgClassroom #AITC #DiverseBooks National Science Teaching Association WSTA-Washington Science Teachers Association National Farm to School Network National Agriculture in the Classroom DeKalb County Farm Bureau Life Lab Center for Ecoliteracy Common Threads Farm Big Green Detroit Hives FoodCorps

November is National Family Literacy Month! Check out these terrific lists good food reads from Slow Food USA, including children's books to share with the entire family, including: Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious (Alice is VP of Slow Food International) Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix... Our School Garden! Bread Lab Sylvia's Spinach Zora's Zucchini Support independent booksellingand "good, clean, and fair food for all"by shopping at SFUSA's affiliate store at Bookshop this holiday season. https://bit.ly/2TZtO24 Go to "Slow Food Live," a free program with food experts, and see: Author Katherine Pryor read SYLVIA and discuss tasting a new food CHEF ROY CHOI co-author June Jo Lee reading the book and discuss Korean food culture and traditions. https://bit.ly/3dFZjqR . . #FamilyLiteracyMonth #FamilyLiteracy #FamilyReading #GoodFoodRead #FoodLiteracy #FoodEducation #FoodCulture #SlowFood Slow Food USA Slow Food Seattle

November is National Bread Month! Check out these bread around the world. Personal favorites include roti canal from Malaysia, kare pan from Japan, pat bar from Hong Kong, and of course challah and Montreal bagels! "Nutty, sweet and a little bit tart!" Share Bread Lab with the young baker. Great introduction to the joy and science of breadmaking and also bringing awareness to the sensory experience and vocabulary to taste and flavor. https://bit.ly/2VQjVo7 "This engaging p...icture book about the science and joy of making bread is named for Washington State University's influential Bread Lab and co-written by its managing director, Kim Binczewski, and agricultural scientist Bethany Econopouly. Illustrated lovingly by Hayelin Choi, this book should inspire folks of all ages to explore the world of sourdough baking."EATER Seattle "A good way to introduce students to bread, wheat, and the science of baking." American Farm Bureau Federation . . #Bread #NationalBr#NationalBreadMonth #Breadmaking #YoungBakers #Baking #WholeWheat #WholeGrain #Sourdough #Fermentation #ScienceEducation #STEM #SensoryEducation #Taste #Flavor The Bread Bakers Guild of America National Farm to School Network National Agriculture in the Classroom Raddish Kids Pure Food Kids King Arthur Flour Co King Arthur Flour Baking School At the Bread Lab

Fun ideas! Just voted at our polling station. All was calm. Cheers to all the poll workers! Now we wait... So ready for some stress eating.

Great opportunity for garden educators. Sign up for the Bee Grant from Whole Kids Foundation, in partnership with The Bee Cause Project. We had a wonderful partnerhship with WKF and BCP on their 2019 #GiveBeesAChance campaign, featuring The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter, to promote bee education and bee gardens. See their great resources: https://bit.ly/34UF5XQ. Share THE THING ABOUT BEES during November #FamilyLiteracyMonth. https://bit.ly/2VLmEPG... "Best Picture Book 2019" list School Library Journal "Larkin, a father of young children and a profound melissophobe, dug into the dizzying variety of bee species and the roles they play in the global food web, all in order to ease his own fear and avoid passing that fear on to his children. The result is a sweet, gentle picture book that, with Larkin's playful, abstract art, can inspire a sense of wonder and respect for nature's buzzing buddies. Be sure to check out the 'How Not to Get Stung' chart at the back." Civil Eats . . #Bees #Pollinators #Pollination #BeeEducation #BeeGarden #GardenEducation #SchoolGarden #ScienceEducation #OutdoorEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #ClimateAction #STEM #STEAM #FarmToSchool #AgClassroom #AgLiteracy #AITC Whole Kids Foundation The Bee Cause Project Detroit Hives The Pollinator Partnership National Farm to School Network South Carolina Farm to School California Farm to School Oregon Farm to School and School Garden Network National Agriculture in the Classroom NC Farm Bureau "Ag in the Classroom" Georgia Farm Bureau FoodCorps Life Lab Center for Ecoliteracy The Black Church Food Security Network

November is National Family Literacy Month! See ALSC - The Association for Library Service to Children on how libraries partner with U.S. Department of Agriculture's WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) programs to promote early literacy, resulting in families visiting public library for the first time, signing up for library card, and participating in library summer meal programs. READERS to EATERS is thrilled to also partner with WIC programs to connection food education an...d early literacy. WIC in Wisconsin and Washington state have adopted our books statewide and helped launched our Spanish publishing program with LAS CALABACITAS DE ZORA (Zora's Zucchini) and LAS ESPINACAS DE SYLVIA (Sylvia's Spinach). Contact us on how we can partner with your WIC programs with local libraries. . . #FamilyLiteracy #FamilyLiteracyMonth #EarlyLiteracy #FoodLiteracy #FoodEducation #NutritionEducation #PublicLIbrary #libraryfoodhub National WIC Association Wisconsin WIC Association Washington State Department of Health California WIC Association Oregon WIC Arizona Department of Health Services WIC Association of New York State Maryland Department of Health WIC Program Maryland Library Association Baltimore County Public Library The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Good tips! I'll start keeping potato chips, nuts and popcorn in the freezer! November is National Bread Month. Share Bread Lab with the young baker and try the whole wheat sourdough recipe. bit.ly/3kQrdU4 See The Kitchn on "Here’s How Long Bread Will Last in the Freezer (and How to Store It)" https://bit.ly/3oPBour... . . #FoodStorage #Bread #NationalBreadMonth #BreadLab #YoungBaker #Breadmaking #WholeWheat #SourdoughStarter See more

November is National Family Literacy Month! "Family dinner improves literacy!" See this great discussion from The Family Dinner Project: Children learn more new words through dinner conversation than they do from hearing stories read aloud. Dinner also tends to include the kinds of give-and-take exchanges that make kids better storytellers.... A few good food reads that make good conversation starters at the dinner table: The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter (on overcoming fear) Sylvia's Spinach (on tasting new food) Zora's Zucchini (on food waste) Feeding the Young Athlete (on what and when to eat) A Moose Boosh: A Few Choice Words About Food (on how we eat) https://bit.ly/2AinZWQ . . #FamilyLiteracy #FamilyLiteracyMonth #FamilyReading #FamilyDinner #FamilyCooking #DinnerConversation #ConversationStarter #VocabularyBuilder #Storytelling #Kidlit #FoodLiteracy #EdibleEducation The Family Dinner Project An Open Book Foundation National Council of Teachers of English The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) California Association for the Education of Young Children Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation Reading Rockets Pilot Light Pure Food Kids Whole Kids Foundation Chef Ann Foundation Food Literacy Center FoodCorps Freshfarm National WIC Association California WIC Association Real Food Media Real Food for Real Kids

November is National Bread Month! See the "Bakers Dozen" Breead Facts from Bread Lab and turn the kitchen into a creative makers space with the whole wheat sourdough bread recipe from the book, published in partnership with Washington State University's Bread Lab with support from The Bread Bakers Guild of America . bit.ly/3kQrdU4 "Bread lovers are in for a treat!... Young bakers will enjoy learning about the science of bread making and will be eager to try the recipe in...cluded." School Library Journal "A good way to introduce students to bread, wheat, and the science of baking." American Farm Bureau Federation "I LOVE how this book shows the intersection between plant science, crops, and delicious food. Not only is it a great story, but it shows the interdependence of farmers, scientists, and eaters (which of course we all are). That pretty much sums up the goal of agricultural literacy!" Rhodora Collins, Agricultural Literacy Coordinator, DeKalb County Farm Bureau (GA) Join the Bread Lab Collaborative to create The Approach Loaf to bring affordable, approachable, accessible whole wheat sandwich loaf to your community. http://bit.ly/37HRXi0 . . #BreadLab #WSUBreadLab #Bread #NationalBreadMonth #WholeWheat #WholeGrain #Sourdough #Baking #Breadmaking #Fermentation #FoodLiteracy #Taste #Flavor #SensoryEducation #FoodScience #PlantScience #STEM #STEAM #ScienceEducation #WomenInScience #FarmToSchool #AgClassroom #AgLiteracy #AITC National Agriculture in the Classroom Washington Ag in the Classroom Washington State Department of Agriculture NC Farm Bureau "Ag in the Classroom" California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAITC) American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture Georgia Farm Bureau Kansas Farm Bureau National Wheat Foundation American Bakers Association National Farm to School Network Whole Kids Foundation FoodCorps Viva Farms Common Threads Farm

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