Pasta and Picasso - October 25

Noodling Around with Learning

Monday, October 25, 2021

Today is International Artists Day and World Pasta Day.

October is Apple Month, Chili Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, Bullying Prevention Month, Country Music Month, National Arts & Humanities Month, Bat Appreciation Month, and Raptor Month.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Picasso and Pasta
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ON THIS DATE

• 1415 - Henry V of England defeats the French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.
• 1760 - King George III succeeds to the British throne following the death of his grandfather George II.
• 1854 - The Battle of Balaclava, memorialized in the poem "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, takes place during the Crimean War.
• 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first African American general in the United States Army.
• 1971 - The UN General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
• 1983 - A U.S.-led force invades Grenada.
• 1986 -  The Mets win Game 6 of the World Series in the 10th inning when a ground ball goes through Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs. (Still not over it.)

BIRTHDAYS

• 1825 - Austrian composer Johann Strauss, Jr.
• 1838 - French composer Georges Bizet
• 1881 - Spanish artist Pablo Picasso
• 1891 - Radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin
• 1941 - Singer Helen Reddy
• 1969 - Comedian Samantha Bee
• 1984 - Singer Katy Perry

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Johann Strauss, Jr. - Blue Danube Waltz - LISTEN
• Georges Bizet - "Les Toreadors" from Carmen Suite No. 1 - LISTEN
• Helen Reddy - I Am Woman - LISTEN
• Katy Perry - Roar - LISTEN
  

THEME: PICASSO

• Grades 4-8 - Tate Museum - Who Is Pablo Picasso? - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Treasures of the World - Guernica: Testimony of War - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Picasso Overturned the Rules of Sculpture (6:02) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Picasso's Guernica: Mind & Motivation of the Artist: The Power of Art - DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: 1958 Pablo Picasso Drawings (4:03)  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: 1960 Picasso "Gros Oiseau Vert" Pot (4:04) - VIEW
• Grades 11-12 - NHPBS Video - The Art Assignment - Art Cooking: PICASSO (16:23) - VIEW
• Grades Professional Development - NHPBS Video - Education Station: Teaching Ideas - History in a Bag, Primary/Secondary Sources, Pablo Picasso (28:56) - VIEW

THEME: PASTA

• Grades PreK-1- PBS LearningMedia - Kara Dioguardi: Pasta (1:23) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Kid Vision - How Pasta is Made (9:01) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS Video - Full-Time Kid - How to Make Rainbow Pasta (with an adult!) (2:38) - VIEW and DO

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• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - Buster's Breathless/The Fright Stuff
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali - By Sled Or Snowshoe/The Shortest Birthday
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Golden Bamboo Lemur
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - First Day Of School
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - Junior's Story/Anniversary Surprise
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - A Prickly Pear/Turkish Delight
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat- The Shell Game/Heron Food Blues
• 10-11:30 pm NHPBS - P.O.V. - Things We Dare Not Do
  

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• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Frozen Fish/Pirate Treasure
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - First Day Of School
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Missing Squeakykins/The Cloud-O-Matic
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - The Mystery Of The Mask/Movie Monday
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Haunt Squad/Safe House In The Woods
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts - Tenrec Treasure Hunt
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Molly of Denali - Bird In The Hand/Bye-Bye Birdie
• 10-11 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - EXHUMED: A History of Zombies

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• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Nature - My Garden Of A Thousand Bees
• 2-4:30 pm NH WORLD - Baseball - Home

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