{"id":3642,"date":"2015-04-28T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2015-04-30T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:01:32","slug":"talk-a-latte-brings-topics-to-alc-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/talk-a-latte-brings-topics-to-alc-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk-A-Latte brings topics to ALC campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Adult Learning Center (ALC) librarian Sonny Stowe hosts Talk-A-Latte. This gives students in different levels a chance to come together, have a cookie and coffee, and discuss the topic of the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sonny-Stowe-TAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3643\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sonny-Stowe-TAL.jpg\" alt=\"Sonny Stowe TAL\" width=\"4817\" height=\"3032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sonny-Stowe-TAL.jpg 4817w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sonny-Stowe-TAL-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sonny-Stowe-TAL-1024x644.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sonny-Stowe-TAL-476x300.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4817px) 100vw, 4817px\" \/><\/a>This is especially beneficial for the ESOL students as it provides a relaxed atmosphere to practice English skills. The theme of Talk-A-Latte this year was our park system. The uniqueness of our national, state and local parks was highlighted by discussing the different kinds of parks: historical (i.e. Jamestown), natural (i.e. the Grand Canyon), battlefields (i.e. Gettysburg), and those for recreation like Mt. Trashmore.<\/p>\n<p>Those parks were also compared to theme parks like Busch Gardens and Disney World. A great time was had by all. Students from other countries were encourage to tell about parks in their homelands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Adult Learning Center (ALC) librarian Sonny Stowe hosts Talk-A-Latte. This gives students in different levels a chance to come together, have a cookie and coffee, and discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}