Yay! Summer!

Get outdoors!   Explore!   Visit your public library!  READ!

Symbols of Montana

 

CLICK HERE for Montana's state symbols.

Greek Mythology Jeopardy

Click here to play:
Greek Mythology Jeopardy

Image from Wikipedia.

Bird cams!

Spring is... baby birds!

See what's happening in the nest with these bird webcams:

Bald eagles

Red-tailed hawks

Great blue herons

Eastern bluebirds

View the ABC News video of a Spokane banker rescuing baby ducklings from a ledge at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hnbmml8fOY

11 Birthdays

Winner of the 2012 Young Readers' Choice Award

11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

View the book trailer at:

http://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/11+Birthdays

Celebrate Poetry Month with Shel Silverstein!

Enjoy the Shel Silverstein website at:

http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html

Enjoy Shel's poems and singing:

Crocodile's Toothache

Jimmy Jet and His TV Set

Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me

"Seaman" visits 4th graders

Millie the Newfoundland dog doing her imitation of Seaman.

Can you catch magpies to send to President Jefferson?   
Navigate a river--going upstream?
Identify unfamiliar plants?
Find your way across the Bitterroot Mountains?
Try doing what Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, & the Corps of Discovery did at:

The Lewis and Clark Adventure Game

Library Tour!

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.  "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

4.  "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. (Photo from Wikipedia)










2.  Dr. Seuss in The Lorax.               
3 . Anne Frank, Jewish victim
                     of the Holocaust.  (Wikipedia photos)







4.  Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor
Company.   (Photo from Wikipedia).

                                                                  







Ancient Greece



The Parthenon, Athens.  Photo from Wikipedia.

 Try these challenges from the British Museum:

1.  Build your own Greek temple.


2.  Play the "Greek House" challenge.


3.  Can you survive the Spartan education program?

St. Patrick's Day!

Your librarian got 90% on this St. Patrick's Day Quiz.
Can you outscore her?

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/puzzlesquizzes/quizyournoodle-st-patricks-day/

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Millie is a Newfoundland like Seaman.
But Seaman weighed 150 pounds and Millie
is only 105 pounds.

Can you catch magpies to send to President Jefferson?   
Navigate a river--going upstream?
Identify unfamiliar plants?
Find your way across the Bitterroot Mountains?
Try doing what Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, & the Corps of Discovery did at:


The Lewis & Clark Adventure Game

Hoax or not?

Can you tell the truth from fiction?

Courtesy PDPhoto.org

Some of these websites have accurate

information.

Some are partly or totally untrue.
(Scroll down for the answers).

1. Burmese Mountain Dog

2. Dog Island

3. Giant Squid

4. Insects as Food

5. Inventions with Patents

6. Jackalope Conspiracy

7. Lewis and Clark

8. Mike the Headless Chicken

9. Peruvian Hairless Dog

10. Moving Rocks




Answers:
1.F  2. F  3. T  4. T  5. T  6. F  7. F  8. T  9. T  10. T

February is "I Love to Read" Month!

These four bookcases are the entire library for
a 500-student school in Kenya.  
Photographed by Gail Michener, Feb. 2012.

As we celebrate reading this month (and every month!) let's celebrate all the wonderful books we have in our Rose Park School Library.  Some children who love to read are not as fortunate.   Stop in and check some out!

What's your favorite part of the Library?

A fourth grader shows us his favorite part of the Dewey Decimal System.....741.5 !

Happy Groundhog's Day!

Looking for the groundhog.  I know you're in there!


Click here:   HEAR A GROUNDHOG and other prairie animals.

"The Composer is Dead"

See it FREE at the ABT this Saturday, January 28th:

The Billings Symphony performs Lemony Snicket's whodunit, "The Composer is Dead"
at 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m..
Details at:
http://billingsgazette.com/entertainment/music/bso-asks-whodunit-saturday/article_37cd8fb4-3b00-5b5c-a2e8-98d0fbad4f0e.html

Read it FREE at the Rose Park Library

You can borrow the book and music cd.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Learn about Chinese New Year at:
Chinese New Year

Photo from Wikipedia:  Chinese New Year

The Chinese calendar names the years after 12 animals. 
Which animal represents the year you were born?
What personality traits come with that animal?
Find out here:
Chinese Zodiac

The joy of books!

This stop-motion video made by a Toronto bookstore celebrates books.  Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8&feature=youtu.be

Garfield and online safety

Garfield helps Nermal with online safety.
After you have viewed the video, TRY and APPLY:
http://learninglab.org/life_skills/online_safety/

Ruby Bridges: A true story of courage

Ruby Bridges remembers 1960--the year she was six years old and became the first black student to attend an all-white school in New Orleans:

RUBY BRIDGES VIDEO

New book for a new year: WILDWOOD

Wildwood:  A hidden world in a Portland forest.

Meet the author and illustrator of Wildwood in this USA Today video interview:


Colin Meloy / Carson Ellis INTERVIEW

Colin Meloy is a member of the Portland
band "The Decemberists."









Try the FAKE or PHOTO? QUIZ