City of Inglewood, CA City Events, 5 Oct 2016

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From YouTube: "Read To Me" Event at Inglewood Public Library

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Author Roseanne Greenfield Thong read to a room full of vibrant students in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Her Books, Green Is A Chile Pepper and Round Is A Tortilla are both available for check out at the Inglewood Public Library!

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My name is Roseann Greenfield tongue and I'm here to help celebrate hispanic heritage month at the Englewood library, I.

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Read two books to the students when it's called round as a tortilla and the others called Green is a chili pepper and these are fun books because they talk about Hispanic culture, but they use your universal themes like numbers and shapes and colors, and it's really important for students to connect with what they read in books to what they see in their communities.

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So the idea is that students would be learning about shapes, but these are shapes they would see in their own neighborhood in their own household colors that they would experience in their own community. So that's the focus of these two books square.

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Are the letters we know them well square? Is a board game to help us spell.

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Board game is dis. Do you know the name of this game? What's it come scrabble.

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Like Scrabble I.

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Love Scrabble, it is an amazing event. I really see the library as a community focus for all kinds of culture and I think that's a wonderful idea to draw people to the library. Today, I've experienced an amazing ballet folklorico troupe, I've experienced Veracruz music from an impromptu singing group. We've had books about Hispanic culture and I've met some amazing families that three generations of people have been in this community and are sharing their unique backgrounds. I've enjoyed it immensely.

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You know I, think that when we read about our own culture, it helps validate our own experience. It makes us feel like what we experience is broader than in our own household and I. Think that's a really important thing, but I think it's a wonderful thing to share as well so I'm a Spanish language, learner, I've been struggling with Spanish for many years and you know I think we have to bridge those communities together.

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I think they're Asian families that want to learn about Hispanic culture, I think they're, black families that want to learn about Chinese culture, I. Think the more we put our ideas out there, whether it's through books or song or dance. It's it's really a nice bridge and it works both ways.