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.