Wind and Beverly Cleary - April 12

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Saturday, April 12, 2025

Today Passover begins, Big Wind Day, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, Day of Human Space Flight, Licorice Day, Only Child Day, and Russian Cosmonaut Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: WIND and BEVERLY CLEARY

ON THIS DATE

• 1861 - Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, beginning the Civil War.
• 1934 - The strongest surface wind gust in the world, 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington. The record is now a 253 mph wind gust recorded on Barrow Island, Australia during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996.
• 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office.
• 1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space.
• 1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1916 - Children's author Beverly Cleary
• 1947 - Author Tom Clancy
• 1947 - Talk show host and comedian David Letterman
• 1950 - Singer-songwriter and actor David Cassidy
• 1952 - Poet and children's author Gary Soto
• 1957 - Singer-songwriter Vince Gill
• 1979 - Actor Claire Danes

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cries Mary - LISTEN
• Kansas - Dust in the Wind - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - Blowin' In the Wind - LISTEN
• Elton John - Rocketman - LISTEN
• David Bowie - Space Oddity - LISTEN

POEMS OF THE DAY 

• Robert Frost - To the Thawing Wind
• William Shakespeare - Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
• Gary Soto - Evening On the Lawn

THEME:  WIND

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Listen to the Wind Blow (2:52) - VIEW
• Grade PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Crafts for Kids - Explore the Wind with a Windsock (2:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - Sid the Science Kid - What is Wind (1:35) - VIEW
• Grades 1-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Wind Power Experiment (3:16) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Blowin' in the Wind (28:05) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - National Weather Service - Beaufort Wind Scale - READ
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Measuring Wind Speed (1:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Wind Power (2:33) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  Beverly  Cleary

• Grades K-12 - ReadWriteThink - Today is D.E.A.R. Day - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Discovering Beverly Cleary (27:42) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour - Beloved Children's Author Beverly Cleary Dies at 104 - READ

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