UOG Press and SNAP-Ed donate 8,000 children's books
UOG Press and SNAP-Ed donate 8,000 children's books
UOG Press and SNAP-Ed donate 8,000 children's books
12/12/2019
(From left) Sereana H. Dresbach, director, UOG Cooperative Extension and Outreach; Rynette D. Perez, assistant coordinator, UOG鈥檚 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program 鈥� Education; Cynthia S. Respicio, assistant program director, Guam Head Start Program; Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero, managing editor, UOG Press; Lawrence Flores, Hafa Adai Printing; Divina Garcia C. Leones, school program consultant, Guam Department of Education GATE Project; Leon P.C. Bamba, program coordinator, GDOE GATE Project; Eloise R. Sanchez, school program consultant, GDOE Curriculum and Instruction; Monique C. Storie, dean, UOG University Libraries; Tanisha F. Aflague, coordinator/principal investigator, SNAP-Ed.
The 91快播 Press, in partnership with Hafa Adai Printing, donated 8,000 CHamoru children鈥檚 books to pre-school and Kindergarten classrooms island-wide, including the Chief Hurao Academy and the Faney氓kan Sinipok CHamoru Immersion Pilot Kindergarten Program at P.C. Lujan Elementary School.
The books are part of an effort of UOG's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program 鈥� Education (SNAP-Ed) to increase the effectiveness of healthy living curriculum in schools by providing culturally relevant material to facilitate family conversations around food-related traditions, experiences, role-modeling, and family relationships.
The SNAP-Ed team at UOG, in collaboration with UOG , distributed the books to 352 students and 26 teachers in 17 Head Start, five Pre-K Gifted and Talented Education (GATE), and four Pre-K classrooms island-wide and hosted a workshop at a Family Engagement Conference. Chief Hurao Academy will also be using the books in their CHamoru immersion preschool classrooms as well as providing copies to families to use at home.
鈥淧arents, children, teachers, and administrators were guided through each book to highlight healthy food talk opportunities and were introduced to online resources from UOG Press,鈥� said Assistant Professor of Nutrition Tanisha Aflague, SNAP-Ed coordinator. 鈥淪elect materials were printed and used as an activity for parents and children and others were provided to the teachers to incorporate into their class time.鈥�
Published by Taiguini Books, an imprint of UOG Press that publishes cultural and indigenous literature about and for the people of Micronesia,
the books that were donated include:
- 鈥淪i Pedro yan i Hil茅t Oru na Ko鈥檏o鈥� (Pedro and the Golden Ko鈥檏o鈥�)鈥� by Lance Osborn
- "Ma Guaiya Yu鈥�, si N氓na yan si T氓ta (Grandma and Grandpa Love Me)鈥� by Simone and Dana Bollinger
- 鈥淕uaiyayon na Trongkon Mansanita (The Loveable Mansanita Tree)鈥� by Dolores Camacho
- 鈥淚 Malingu na P氓tgon (The Lost Child)鈥� by Rufina Mendiola
Free K鈥�12 curriculum resources for select Taiguini Books titles can be downloaded
.