Another mysterious book

Ancient Greece: Sparta

Visit Ancient Greece at the British Museum.

photo from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta

CLICK HERE to read about Sparta and take the Spartan Challenge.

Animals & plants of the Florida Everglades

The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo by Jean Craighead George is a 4th-Grade classroom novel.

Photo by Steve Hillebrand, provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

This photograph is in the Public Domain.

Use these links to learn more about the animals and plants of the Florida Everglades:

American alligator

anhinga (bird)
anole (lizard)
coot (bird)
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Florida cottonmouth (snake)
Florida kingsnake
Florida panther
gallinule (bird)
gambusia (mosquitofish)
garfish
green treefrog
mosquito
muskrat
oak toad
otter
pig frog
pintail duck
snapping turtle
snowy egret (bird)
squirrel treefrog
tree snail
vulture
white-crowned pigeon
zebra longwing butterfly

black ironwood
cabbage palm
coco plum
cypress
ghost orchid
giant leather fern
gumbo limbo tree
hydrilla
mastic tree
oak
pigeon plum
rabbit tobacco
resurrection fern
royal palm tree
sawgrass
soapberry
strangler fig
tallow wood
water lily
wax myrtle
West Indian mahogany
willow bustic

Rose Park has talent!

CLICK HERE for Talent Show photos

Ancient Egypt online

This is a painting from an Egyptian tomb, about 1400 B.C.
The ancient Egyptians valued and even worshipped cats.  Some cats became mummies, just like some humans.
This picture is in the public domain.
http://www.pictures-of-cats.org/cat-history.html















Use the University of Manchester (UK) site to learn about Ancient Egypt.  The links will take you there to

1.  WRITE YOUR NAME IN HIEROGLYPHS
2.  COUNT LIKE AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
3.  VISIT A PYRAMID

Guess what fourth graders are reading

CLICK HERE to view slide show.

How to Train Your Dragon

Books by Cressida Cowell in the Rose Park Library:

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Be a Pirate

How to Speak Dragonese

A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons; The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking

Survey for 5th & 6th graders

Fifth and Sixth graders learned about using Facebook and other social media safely when guest teacher-librarian Mrs. Roberts joined us in the Rose Park Library.

Mrs. Roberts would like feedback from all Fifth and Sixth grade students about her lessons and what they learned.

Click on this link to take her survey:
SURVEY for 5th & 6th Graders

At home in Ancient Greece

Did you know...                                                                                       

In ancient Greece, girls were named after a grandmother and boys after a grandfather.

It was good manners for a boy to stand up when an older man entered the room. 

It was also good manners to eat with your fingers.  There were no forks, and the food was already cut up before it was served.   You could use bread to scoop up your soup or you could wipe your fingers on the bread.  Done with the bread?  Just throw it on the floor.  There were usually dogs to clean scraps off the floor.
                                                                                                                                                         Public domain photo of Athena from Wikipedia.

These facts are from Your Travel Guide to Ancient Greece by Nancy Day  (938 Day).


Visit a house in Ancient Greece by using this link:
Ancient Greece at the British Museum
(scroll to the bottom and take the Greek house Challenge)

It's Spring!

Japan--Before & after photos

CLICK HERE for photos from the New York Times

Guess what fourth graders are reading...

CLICK HERE to view slide show.


 

Whose tracks?

These casts of animal tracks were in the Rose Park Library this month.  Each photo shows a back & front foot.  Can you name the five Montana mammals?

Answers:   1.  Mountain lion     2. Wolf     3. Beaver    4. Porcupine     5. Skunk

"Think before you post" resources:

"Think Before You Post" video

"Think Before You Post--Soon it will be out of your hands" video

Mr. Dean's anti-cyberbullying site

Are you a CYBERBULLY? Take the quiz here.

"Seussical" is coming to West High

"Seussical" is a musical based on Dr. Seuss's books.  See these Seuss characters on the West High School stage:  Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Mayzie LaBird, the Mayor of Whoville, and many others.  Then check out Dr. Seuss books from the Library!
This information is from the West High School website:

Billings West High School is presenting the musical production of 'Seussical' on March 31-April 2. Reserved seating tickets will go on sale Monday, March 14 for $8.  Curtain time will be 7:30 pm in the BWHS Auditorium for each performance.

The production will feature a cast and orchestra of nearly 100 students under the combined directorship
of Dave Green and Laura Blodgett, choral; Melinda Middleton, dramatic arts; and Harmony Hoover, orchestra.

To purchase tickets, or for further information, contact the West High Music Office at 281-5738 between
the hours of 8:00 - 3:00. School District #2 Activity Passes and Golden Age Passes cannot be honored at this event.

Guess what 4th graders are reading

CLICK HERE to see slide show.

"DIG IT" : The Musical

CLICK HERE for a slideshow of photos from "Dig It"

and then visit the Rose Park Library to learn more about ancient cultures!

More riddles

Montana languages

Learn some words in the Northern Cheyenne and Crow languages by going to this Western Heritage Center site. 

 Click here:    Northern Cheyenne and Crow languages

4th graders clue us in on books to read

CLICK HERE for a slide show!

      

Who said?

1.  "Ask not what your country can do for you--
Ask what you can do for your country."



2.  "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.  It's not."



3.  "To do for the world more than the world does for you--
that is success."




Answers:
1.  President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address.
2.  Dr. Seuss in The Lorax.
3.  Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Co.