Gorillas and Dr. Seuss

Wonder and Think Learning

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Today is  Dr. Seuss Day, NEA's Read Across America Day, and National Banana Creme Pie 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: Gorillas ad Dr. Seuss
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ON THIS DATE

• 1807 - U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves.
• 1836 - Texas declares its independence from Spain.
• 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
• 1903 - Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
• 1917 - Puerto Ricans are granted U.S. citizenship.
• 1933 - King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
• 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
• 1983 - Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States

BIRTHDAYS

• 1793 - Ist president of the Republic of Texas Sam Houston
• 1860 - Politician and activist and first female U.S. Mayor Susanna M. Salter *
• 1900 - German-born composer Kurt Weill
• 1902 - Baseball player and spy Moe Berg
• 1904 - Writer and illustrator Dr. Seuss
• 1922 - Computer programmer Frances Spence *
• 1931 - Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev
• 1942 - Novelist and NH native John Irving
• 1942 - Singer-songwriter Lou Reed
• 1950 - Singer Karen Carpenter
• 1952 - Actor Laraine Newman
• 1962 - Singer-songwriter Jon Bon Jovi
• 1980 - Australian actor - Rebel Wilson

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love - LISTEN
The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun -LISTEN
Bon Jovi- Livin' On A Prayer - LISTEN
Lotte Lenya - Mack the Knife by Kurt Weill - LISTEN

THEME: Gorillas

• Grades PreK-1 - Curious George - Gordon the Gorilla - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - There's a Gorilla! - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Houston Zoo - Gorilla Habitat Cam - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Gorillas - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Alpha Gorilla is Dad of the Year -VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Did You Know Gorillas Can Sing? -VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Baby Nyakabara -VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Baby Gorilla: The Four-Pound Legacy -VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Koko - The Gorilla Who Talks - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons -What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape? - VIEW

THEME: Dr. Seuss

• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Dr Seuss & Making Oobleck - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-2 - The Cat in the Hat Know A Lot About That - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Rainbow Readers - Cooper Mleynek: "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose" - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - NHPBS Video - Rapping Dr. Seuss - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kids In Motion - Marvin K. Mooney -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Dr. Seuss-illustrated Program & Drawing -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Dr. Seuss-signed First Edition Books -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Dr. Seuss’s Publisher Helped Finish a Forgotten Book - VIEW

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Anne Morgan's War *
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS- Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Julia Child/I Am Neil Armstrong *
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Portraits for the Home Front: The Story of Elizabeth Black *
• 10-10:30 am NH WORLD - Charlotte Mansfield: A Woman Photographer *
• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Queen of Swing*
• 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)
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Great Yellowstone Thaw
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Sister *
• 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Little Miss Westie
  

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