Neptune and Sign Language

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Today is Checkers Day or Dogs in Politics Day,  International Day of Sign Languages, and National White Chocolate Day

ON THIS DATE

• 1779 - John Paul Jones says  "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle.
• 1846 The planet Neptune is discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle using mathematics.
• 1889 - The Nintendo Koppai company is founded to produce the Japanese card game, Hanafuda.
• 1952 -  Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon delivers what is now known as his  ``Checkers'' speech.

BIRTHDAYS

• 63 BCE -  Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emporer
• 1215 - Mongolian Emporer Kublai Khan
• 1838 - Suffragist, activist, and 1872 presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull
• 1851 - Mathematician Ellen Hayes
• 1863 - Educator and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell
• 1926 - Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane
• 1930 - Singer-songwriter Ray Charles

SONG OF THE DAY 
John Coltrane - Equinox - LISTEN
Ray Charles - What'd I Say - LISTEN

THEME:   NEPTUNE

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Neptune and Home - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Neptune Coloring Sheet - PRINT and DO
• Grades 2-5 - NASA - All About Neptune -READ and VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NASA - Neptune: The Windiest Planet - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LeraningMedia - NASA - First Spacecraft at Neptune (Available in Spanish) - READ, VIEW, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets: Ice Worlds (Full Episode) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets: Ice Worlds - Five Facts About the Farthest Planet in Our Solar System - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - How Voyager Discovered that Neptune is Oddly Warm and Stormy - VIEW

THEME:  SIGN LANGUAGE

• Grades PreK-3 - Sign Language Dictionary for Kids - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12- Signing Savvy Video Sign Language Resource - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 3-12 - ASL Video Dictionary - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - Sign Language 101 - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Sign the Sing-A-Long Song - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS Video - Full-Time Kids - Sign Language Alphabet - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Sign Language Translator Glove - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Video - NUTV Learning Live - ASL: Language & Community - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Video - NUTV Learning Live - Signing with Ms. Somers - VIEW and DO

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Wild Metropolis - Survivors
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nature - Wild Florida
• 2-4 pm NH WORLD - Roosevelts: An Intimate History - Get Action (1858-1901)
  
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD -  Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed The World - The Rocket
• 7-9 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - The Choice 2020: Trump Vs. Biden
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - P.O.V. - In My Blood It Runs
  

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