Pigs

This Little Piggy Learning

Monday, March 1, 2021

Today is  Peace Corps Day, World Compliment Day, National Peanut Butter Lovers Day, National Pig Day, 

March is Women's History Month
*indicates a resource or program highlighting women's history, culture, or individual.

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

• 1781 - The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
• 1790 - Congress authorizes the first census.
• 1803 - Ohio becomes the 17th state.
• 1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37th state.
• 1872 - Yellowstone National Park becomes the first national park.
• 1910 -The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
• 1954 -  Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol, injuring five Representatives.
• 1961 - President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1810 - Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin
• 1848 - Sculptor and NH resident  Augustus Saint-Gaudens
• 1904 -Bandleader and composer Glenn Miller
• 1917 - Poet Robert Lowell
• 1927 - Singer-songwriter Harry Belafonte
• 1954 - Actor, director, producer Ron Howard
• 1994 - Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song - LISTEN
Fredric Chopin - Nocturne Op. 1 #2 - LISTEN
Glenn Miller - In the Mood - LISTEN

THEME: Pigs

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Three Little Pigs: Kermit News
  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - The Three Little Pigs  - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Unlikely Partners: Warthog and Mongoose - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Super Why - Alpha Pig's ABC Compilation  - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Nature - Pigs As Pets - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - SanDiego Zoo - Warthogs - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Nature - Pig On Wheels - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Hog Wild - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPB Video - Nature - Hyena and Warthog Families Share a Home - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Pigs as Pets - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs" - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Europe's New Wild - Europe's Wild Boar - VIEW

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD  - Nature - Equus: Story Of The Horse: Chasing The Wind
• 12 -1:pm  - Food - Delicious Science
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Hawaii: Islands of Wonder
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Great Yellowstone Thaw
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Anne Morgan's War *
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Portraits for the Home Front: The Story of Elizabeth Black *
• 9-9:30 pm NHPBS - Charlotte Mansfield: A Woman Photographer *

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