Hanukkah

Happy Holiday Learning

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Today is the beginning of Hanukkah, Human Rights Day, Dewey Decimal System Day, Jane Addams Day, and Nobel Prize Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Hanukkah
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ON THIS DATE

• 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
• 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
• 1884 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
• 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1948 - The U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1815 - English mathematician and computer scientist Ada Lovelace
• 1830 - Poet Emily Dickinson
• 1851 - Librarian Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Adam Sandler - The Chanukah Song - LISTEN
Peter, Paul and Mary - Light One Candle - LISTEN

THEME:  Hanukkah

• Grades PreK-1 - Peg + Cat - Eight Days of Hannukah - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Super Why| - Judith's Happy Chanukah (Full Episode) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Arthur - Muffy Learns About Hanukkah - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Arthur - Hanukkah - READ and DO
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Hanukkah (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Religion and Ethics Weekly - Hanukkah Traditions - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Religion and Ethics Weekly - Hanukkah - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Religion and Ethics Weekly - Hanukkah Lamps - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Religion and Ethics Weekly - Hanukkah's Light - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eight Nights: A Chanukah Musical Celebration - VIEW

Watch 

• 11:30 am -12:30 pm NHPBS - Peg + Cat + Holidays
• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - The Distributive Property, Part 2
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Different Options For Solving One Equation
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Multiplying Powers Of Ten
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra 1 -  Rewriting Quadratic Expressions In Factored Form (Part 2)
• 2-2:30 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - Habitat Havoc
• 2:30-3 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - Dolphin Dive
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Test Tube Babies: American Experience
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD -  Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed The World
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Bird Brain
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Rise Of The Rockets
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Earth's Sacred Wonders

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