Nursery Rhymes

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Saturday, May 1, 2021

Today is the Kentucky Derby, Law Day, Mother Goose Day, and National Chocolate Parfait Day.

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

• 1866 - The Memphis Race Riots begin.
• 1884 - Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• 1886 - Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour workday, 
• 1900 - The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah 
• 1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
• 1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
• 1999 - SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1751 - Poet, playwright, and women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray
• 1852 - Frontierswoman and scout Calamity Jane
• 1907 - Singer Kate Smith
• 1918 - Talk show host Jack Paar
• 1923 - Novelist Joseph Heller
• 1925 - Astronaut Scott Carpenter
• 1939 - Singer Judy Collins

SONG OF THE DAY 

Judy Collins - Both Sides Now - LISTEN

THEME:  Nursery Rhymes

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Nursery Rhyme Collection - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Nursery Rhyme with Kate McKinnon - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Mother Goose's School for Nursery Rhyme ( with Shirley Jones) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS Kids - Nursery Rhymes -VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - This Little Piggy -VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1- NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Pat-a-Cake -VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Jack and Jill - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Humpty Dumpty - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Mary Had a Little Lamb - VIEW
• Grade K - ReadWriteThink - Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose - DO
• Grades K-2 - ReadWriteThink - Acting Out with Mother Goose - DO
• Grades Parents - Nursery Rhyme Reading Fun! - VIEW

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Margaret Mitchell: American Masters
• 9-11 am NH WORLD - American Experience - American OZ
  
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - Bridge To Freedom 1965
• 12-2 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - The Virus That Shook The World - Part 1
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - The Virus That Shook the World - Part 2
• 3-6  pm NH WORLD - Baseball - The National Pastime
• 6-6:30 pm NHPBS - Granite State Challenge- Portsmouth v. Oyster River
• 10-11 pm NH WORLD - Asian Americans - Breaking Ground
  

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