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Name: ________________________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________________ City: _________________________________________ State: _________ Zip: ________________ The Mini Page’s popular series of issues about each state is collected here in a 156-page softcover book. Conveniently spiral-bound for ease of use, this invaluable resource contains A-to-Z facts about each state, along with the District of Columbia. Illustrated with colorful photographs and art, and complete with updated information, The Mini Page Book of States will be a favorite in classrooms and homes for years to come. The Mini Page ® Book of States NEW! Make a Tussie-Mussie A Bouquet for Mom Are flowers part of your Mother’s Day celebration? You may be honoring a grandmother, aunt or other special person along with your mom. Chances are that any of them will enjoy some fresh signs of spring. The Mini Page talked with a flower expert to learn more about these beautiful plants. Flower traditions Flowers have been symbols of affection and love since ancient times. Egyptian hieroglyphics include floral symbols, and the Greeks and Romans believed carrying flowers would help them avoid disease. During Victorian times in the 1800s, flowers became really popular. People began to make “tussie- mussies,” small bouquets of herbs and flowers with special meanings. A man might present his date with a tussie-mussie, or women friends might give them to each other. Today friends still express their feelings with tussie-mussies. What do flowers mean? Different cultures have given flowers different meanings. For example, lavender can be a symbol of devotion or of suspicion and mistrust. Here are some other meanings of different flowers. You may see some of these in gardens around your neighborhood. A tussie-mussie is a meaningful gift for Mom or another special person. This one includes: lemon verbena (enchantment), rosemary (remembrance), thyme (activity and courage), lavender (devotion), rose geranium leaves (gentility), oregano (joy), parsley (“the woman of the house is the boss”), violets (faithfulness) and daffodils (egotism). These flowers are arranged in a silver posy holder. In Victorian times, people might also have gathered their flowers in a handkerchief or paper cone. photos courtesy U.S. Botanic Garden • one red rose = passion and love • baby’s breath = pure heart • purple cornflower = skill • orchid = luxury, nobility • lily of the valley = purity • red tulip = a declaration of love • yellow rose = friendship • carnation = admiration, fascination • daisy = token of affection or patience • chrysanthemum = optimism, long life • pansy = think of me Orchids Pansies Which flowers would you choose for your mom? Which would you choose for a teacher? Words that remind us of flowers and plants are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: ANCIENT, BOUQUET, CALYX, FLOWER, FOOD, GEL, HERB, LOVE, MEANING, MEDICINE, MOTHER, OIL, PERFUME, PETAL, PISTIL, PLANT, POLLEN, POLLINATION, SCENT, SEED, SPRING, STAMENS, TUSSIE-MUSSIE. Mother’s Day TRY ’N FIND LET MOM KNOW YOU LOVE HER! N O I T A N I L L O P E T A L K N V E J R E H T O M O Z O D T E M U F R E P W E I G V E G N L T Q O H V R D L N E E N R E L N U O Q E I L I T S I P P I O E O D W C R R F J N G E L C P C B O I B P B C A L Y X A N Z S L N M S S N E M A T S N A J F E I S S U M E I S S U T from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick Basset Brown The News Hound’s TM Ready Resources from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick The Mini Page provides ideas for websites, books or other resources that will help you learn more about this week’s topics. On the Web: • www.usbg.gov/forkids.cfm • www.usbg.gov/plant-collections/conservation/ Know-Your-Impact.cfm • www.flowersforkids.org/html/flower_care.htm At the library: • “Flowers” by David Burnie from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick How Do Flowers Grow? The parts of a flower Most flowers have: • petals that help attract birds and insects to carry pollen from one plant to another. • a calyx (KA-liks), or covering, below the petals. It protects the flower’s inner parts. • stamens (STAY-mehns), or the male parts of the flower. They make the pollen. • a pistil (PIS-til), or the female part of the flower. It makes the seeds. In order for a flower to make seeds, pollen from the male parts (the stamens) must reach the female part (the pistil). We call this pollination. Some flowers have the male and female parts in separate flowers or separate plants. For example, hollies are either male or female. You have to have both to get the beautiful red berries. Seeds get around The wind scatters seeds. Water carries seeds. Some plants spread their own seeds. They pop out when the plant’s fruit bursts open. People carry seeds on their clothes, or they plant seeds in farming or gardening. Animals and insects carry seeds. They digest them or seeds get stuck to their fur. Pollen collects on a bee’s body as it feeds on nectar. The bee carries the pollen to another flower. photo by John Severns Petals Pistil Stamen Calyx Rookie Cookie’s Recipe Strawberry Yogurt Parfait You’ll need: • 2 tablespoons brown sugar • 1 /2 teaspoon vanilla extract • 2 (6-ounce) containers low-fat vanilla yogurt • 3 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced • 1 /4 cup granola What to do: 1. Mix brown sugar and vanilla extract into vanilla yogurt. Stir well to blend flavors. 2. Divide half the strawberries among 4 dessert dishes. Spoon half of yogurt mixture over strawberries. 3. Layer again with remaining strawberries and yogurt mixture. 4. Top with granola. Chill until ready to serve. You will need an adult’s help with this recipe. from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick TM from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick Mary: What did the baby lightbulb say to its mother? May: “I wuv you watts and watts!” Melvin: Why is a rainy day hard for a mother kangaroo? Myrtle: Because her joey has to play inside! TM All the following jokes have something in common. Can you guess the common theme or category? Milton: What did baby Tarzan’s mother read to him in the jungle? Marvin: Safari tales! Mini Spy . . . Mini Spy loves to visit flower gardens with her mother every Mother’s Day. See if you can find: •word MINI • number 6 • cat • cardinal • frog • chicken • banana • star • snail • dragon • ice pop • bell • peanut • dolphin • carrot • number 3 • fish • kite • donkey • sailboat • butterfly from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick TM from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick Meet Hayley Kiyoko Hayley Kiyoko stars as Stella in the Disney Channel TV movie musical “Lemonade Mouth.” She has acted in several TV shows, including the Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and the Cartoon Network movies “Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins” and “Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster.” Hayley plays the drums, guitar and keyboards and is part of the band The Stunners. This band was the opening act for Justin Bieber’s 2010 My World tour. Hayley, 20, was born in Los Angeles. She began taking drum lessons when she was 6. In high school, she served as president of the student council and also started a high-step team. She went to a music college in New York. She now lives in Los Angeles with her family. photo by Bob D’Amico, cour- tesy Disney Channel from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick Flower and Plant Uses The Mini Page Staff Betty Debnam - Founding Editor and Editor at Large Lisa Tarry - Managing Editor Lucy Lien - Associate Editor Wendy Daley - Artist We most often think of flowers as ornaments or gifts. But flowers and other plants are used in many different ways. In fact, some other traditional Mother’s Day gifts actually come from plants! Perfumes In ancient times, people didn’t bathe as often as modern people do. They could get pretty smelly! This is one of the reasons that ancient people carried flowers with them — to help cover their body odor. Today, perfumes include oils from different types of flowers. Roses and jasmine are commonly used to make perfumes. Medicines and other uses Flowers and plants are used by scientists to create different kinds of medicines and other products for people and animals. Many people use aloe plants to soothe burns and sunburns. The leaves of these plants have a gel inside. People break open the leaves to release the gel, then spread it on their skin. Stinging nettle plants have small hairs on the leaves and stem that sting when they touch our skin. The sting hurts, but many people believe contact with the plant relieves the pain of arthritis. Does your toothpaste taste minty? That flavor comes from the mint plant. Mint is also used to flavor chewing gum. Seeds from sunflowers are an important source of oil and are used in making biodiesel fuel, margarines and some cosmetics. Foods Were you thinking of getting Mom chocolates for Mother’s Day? The chocolate was made from the fruit of the cacao (kuh-KAH-oh) tree. The pods are pollinated by tiny gnats. When ripe, they’re opened and the seeds are removed from sticky white pulp. The seeds are fermented, dried and ground up to make chocolate. Mom will need some sugar with that chocolate; it comes from sugar cane plants. Sugar cane is a grass that grows about 16 feet tall. The stalks are dried, then the sugary juice is extracted. Poet’s Jasmine Why do flowers smell? Flowers’ pleasing scents aren’t just for our benefit. The good smells are used to attract pollinators — bats and insects that spread pollen from flower to flower so that seeds will be made. Even the unpleasant “stinky plant,” also known as the corpse flower, has a reason for its horrible smell. (It smells like a dead rat, an expert told The Mini Page.) The plant is pollinated by carrion beetles and flies — insects that also feed on dead animals. Its stinky smell attracts them. photo courtesy U.S. Botanic Garden Chocolate Pods Sugar Cane Aloe The Mini Page thanks Holly Shimizu, executive director of the U.S. Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C., for help with this issue. Stinging Nettle photo courtesy U.S. Botanic Garden photo courtesy U.S. Botanic Garden photo courtesy U.S. Botanic Garden from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick Supersport: John Baker Hometown: Kotzebue, Alaska On Velvet! On Snickers! No, they aren’t names of Santa Claus’ new reindeer dashing through the snow. Velvet and Snickers were the lead dogs on a 10-dog team that carried musher John Baker on the sled ride of his life in the 2011 Iditarod. Baker and his durable dogs won the prestigious race in record- breaking time, traveling the 1,150-mile-plus course over grueling Alaska countryside in eight days, 18 hours, 46 minutes and 39 seconds. It was the first Iditarod win for Baker, who has had 11 top-10 finishes since he started competing in 1995. Baker has the right touch with his dogs. Baker, a commercial pilot, received a cash prize, a new truck and a new cellphone for his victory. As for Velvet, Snickers and the other eight dogs, they deserve a few extra bones! TM
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release dates: April 30-May 6 18-1 (11)
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Please include all of the appropriate registered trademark symbols and copyright lines in any publication of The Mini Page®.
To order, send $15.99 ($19.99 Canada) plus $5 postage and handling for each copy. Make check or money order (U.S. funds only) payable to Universal Uclick. Send to The Mini Page Book of States, Universal Uclick, P.O. Box 6814, Leawood, KS 66206. Or call toll-free 800-591-2097 or go to www.smartwarehousing.com. Please send ______ copies of The Mini Page Book of States (Item #0-7407-8549-4) at $20.99 each, total cost. (Bulk discount information available upon request.)
Name: ________________________________________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________________________
City: _________________________________________ State: _________ Zip: ________________
The Mini Page’s popular series of issues about each state is collected here in a 156-page softcover book. Conveniently spiral-bound for ease of use, this invaluable resource contains A-to-Z facts about each state, along with the District of Columbia. Illustrated with colorful photographs and art, and complete with updated information, The Mini Page Book of States will be a favorite in classrooms and homes for years to come.
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Book of StatesNEW!
Make a Tussie-Mussie
A Bouquet for Mom Are flowers part of your Mother’s Day celebration? You may be honoring a grandmother, aunt or other special person along with your mom. Chances are that any of them will enjoy some fresh signs of spring. The Mini Page talked with a flower expert to learn more about these beautiful plants.Flower traditions Flowers have been symbols of affection and love since ancient times. Egyptian hieroglyphics include floral symbols, and the Greeks and Romans believed carrying flowers would help them avoid disease. During Victorian times in the 1800s, flowers became really popular. People began to make “tussie-mussies,” small bouquets of herbs and flowers with special meanings. A man might present his date with a tussie-mussie, or women friends might give them to each other. Today friends still express their feelings with tussie-mussies.
What do flowers mean? Different cultures have given flowers different meanings. For example, lavender can be a symbol of devotion or of suspicion and mistrust. Here are some other meanings of different flowers. You may see some of these in gardens around your neighborhood.
A tussie-mussie is a meaningful gift for Mom or another special person. This one includes: lemon verbena (enchantment), rosemary (remembrance), thyme (activity and courage), lavender (devotion), rose geranium leaves (gentility), oregano (joy), parsley (“the woman of the house is the boss”), violets (faithfulness) and daffodils (egotism). These flowers are arranged in a silver posy holder. In Victorian times, people might also have gathered their flowers in a handkerchief or paper cone.
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• one red rose = passion and love • baby’s breath = pure heart • purple cornflower = skill • orchid = luxury, nobility • lily of the valley = purity • red tulip = a declaration of love • yellow rose = friendship • carnation = admiration, fascination • daisy = token of affection or patience
• chrysanthemum = optimism, long life • pansy = think of me
Orchids
Pansies
Which flowers would you choose for your mom? Which would you choose for a teacher?
Words that remind us of flowers and plants are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: ANCIENT, BOUQUET, CALYX, FLOWER, FOOD, GEL, HERB, LOVE, MEANING, MEDICINE, MOTHER, OIL, PERFUME, PETAL, PISTIL, PLANT, POLLEN, POLLINATION, SCENT, SEED, SPRING, STAMENS, TUSSIE-MUSSIE.
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Let MoM know you Love her!
N O I T A N I L L O P E T A L K N V E J R E H T O M O Z O D T E M U F R E P W E I G V E G N L T Q O H V R D L N E E N R E L N U O Q E I L I T S I P P I O E O D W C R R F J N G E L C P C B O I B P B C A L Y X A N Z S L N M S S N E M A T S N A J F E I S S U M E I S S U T
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The Mini Page provides ideas for websites, books or other resources that will help you learn more about this week’s topics.
On the Web:• www.usbg.gov/forkids.cfm• www.usbg.gov/plant-collections/conservation/
Know-Your-Impact.cfm• www.flowersforkids.org/html/flower_care.htm
At the library:• “Flowers” by David Burnie
from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick
How Do Flowers Grow?The parts of a flower
Most flowers have: • petals that help attractbirds and insects to carry pollen from one plant to another. • a calyx (KA-liks), or covering, below the petals. It protects the flower’s inner parts. • stamens (STAY-mehns), or the male parts of the flower. They make the pollen. • a pistil (PIS-til), or the female part of the flower. It makes the seeds.
In order for a flower to make seeds, pollen from the male parts (the stamens) must reach the female part (the pistil). We call this pollination. Some flowers have the male and female parts in separate flowers or separate plants. For example, hollies are either male or female. You have to have both to get the beautiful red berries.
Seeds get aroundThe wind scatters seeds.
Water carries seeds.
Some plants spread their own seeds. They pop out when the plant’s fruit bursts open.
People carry seeds on their clothes, or they plant seeds in farming or gardening.
Animals and insects carry seeds. They digest them or seeds get stuck to their fur.
Pollen collects on a bee’s body as it feeds on nectar. The bee carries the pollen to another flower.
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Rookie Cookie’s RecipeStrawberry Yogurt Parfait
You’ll need:• 2 tablespoons brown sugar• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract• 2 (6-ounce) containers low-fat vanilla yogurt• 3 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced• 1/4 cup granolaWhat to do:1. Mix brown sugar and vanilla extract into vanilla yogurt. Stir well
to blend flavors.2. Divide half the strawberries among 4 dessert dishes. Spoon half of
yogurt mixture over strawberries.3. Layer again with remaining strawberries and yogurt mixture.4. Top with granola. Chill until ready to serve.You will need an adult’s help with this recipe.
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Mary: What did the baby lightbulb say to its mother?
May: “I wuv you watts and watts!”
Melvin: Why is a rainy day hard for a mother kangaroo?
Myrtle: Because her joey has to play inside!
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All the following jokes have something in common. Can you guess the common theme or category?
Milton: What did baby Tarzan’s mother read to him in the jungle?
Marvin: Safari tales!
Mini Spy . . .Mini Spy loves to visit flower gardens with her mother every Mother’s Day. See if you can find: •word MINI• number 6 • cat • cardinal • frog• chicken • banana • star • snail• dragon • ice pop • bell • peanut• dolphin • carrot • number 3 • fish• kite • donkey • sailboat • butterfly
from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick
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from The Mini Page © 2011 Universal Uclick
Meet Hayley Kiyoko Hayley Kiyoko stars as Stella in the Disney Channel TV movie musical “Lemonade Mouth.” She has acted in several TV shows, including the Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and the Cartoon Network movies “Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins” and “Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster.”
Hayley plays the drums, guitar and keyboards and is part of the band The Stunners. This band was the opening act for Justin Bieber’s 2010 My World tour. Hayley, 20, was born in Los Angeles. She began taking drum lessons when she was 6. In high school, she served as president of the student council and also started a high-step team. She went to a music college in New York. She now lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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Flower and Plant Uses
The Mini Page StaffBetty Debnam - Founding Editor and Editor at Large Lisa Tarry - Managing Editor Lucy Lien - Associate Editor Wendy Daley - Artist
We most often think of flowers as ornaments or gifts. But flowers and other plants are used in many different ways. In fact, some other traditional Mother’s Day gifts actually come from plants!Perfumes In ancient times, people didn’t bathe as often as modern people do. They could get pretty smelly! This is one of the reasons that ancient people carried flowers with them — to help cover their body odor. Today, perfumes include oils from different types of flowers. Roses and jasmine are commonly used to make perfumes.
Medicines and other uses Flowers and plants are used by scientists to create different kinds of medicines and other products for people and animals. Many people use aloe plants to soothe burns and sunburns. The leaves of these plants have a gel inside. People break open the leaves to release the gel, then spread it on their skin.
Stinging nettle plants have small hairs on the leaves and stem that sting when they touch
our skin. The sting hurts, but many people believe contact with the plant relieves the pain of arthritis. Does your toothpaste taste minty? That flavor comes from the mint plant. Mint is also used to flavor chewing gum. Seeds from sunflowers are an important source of oil and are used in making biodiesel fuel, margarines and some cosmetics.
Foods Were you thinking of getting Mom chocolates for Mother’s Day? The chocolate was made from the fruit of the cacao (kuh-KAH-oh) tree. The pods are pollinated by tiny gnats. When ripe, they’re opened and the seeds are removed from sticky white pulp. The seeds are fermented, dried and ground up to make chocolate. Mom will need some sugar with that chocolate; it comes from sugar cane plants. Sugar cane is a grass that grows about 16 feet tall. The stalks are dried, then the sugary juice is extracted.
Poet’s Jasmine
Why do flowers smell? Flowers’ pleasing scents aren’t just for our benefit. The good smells are used to attract pollinators — bats and insects that spread pollen from flower to flower so that seeds will be made. Even the unpleasant “stinky plant,” also known as the corpse flower, has a reason for its horrible smell. (It smells like a dead rat, an expert told The Mini Page.) The plant is pollinated by carrion beetles and flies — insects that also feed on dead animals. Its stinky smell attracts them.
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Supersport: John BakerHometown: Kotzebue, Alaska On Velvet! On Snickers! No, they aren’t names of Santa Claus’ new reindeer dashing through the snow. Velvet and Snickers were the lead dogs on a 10-dog team that carried musher John Baker on the sled ride of his life in the 2011 Iditarod.
Baker and his durable dogs won the prestigious race in record-breaking time, traveling the 1,150-mile-plus course over grueling Alaska countryside in eight days, 18 hours, 46 minutes and 39 seconds. It was the first Iditarod win for Baker, who has had 11 top-10 finishes since he started competing in 1995. Baker has the right touch with his dogs. Baker, a commercial pilot, received a cash prize, a new truck and a new cellphone for his victory. As for Velvet, Snickers and the other eight dogs, they deserve a few extra bones!
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