Bicycles - April 19
Pedal Pushing Learning
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Today is Bicycle Day, Dutch-American Friendship Day, Garlic Day, Poker Day, and Rice Ball Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Bicycles
ON THIS DATE
- 1775 - The Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1897 - The first Boston Marathon is run.
- 1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1985 - The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
- 1993 - A 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ends when a fire breaks out, killing 76 Davidians.
- 1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 and injuring 500.
- 1806 - Labor leader Sarah Bagley
- 1831 - Magazine editor Mary Louise Booth
- 1903 - Federal law enforcement agent Eliot Ness
- 1978 - Actor James Franco
- Queen - Bicycle Race - LISTEN
- Tom Waits - Broken Bicycles- LISTEN
- Nat King Cole - On a Bicycle Built for Two - LISTEN
POEM OF THE DAY
Henry Charles Beeching - Going Downhill on a Bicycle
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Murray Learns to Ride a Bike (4:14) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Learning to Ride a Bike (1:18) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Making music with Bike Instruments (1:35) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie and Herry Share a Bike (1:23) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Daniel's New Bike (3:54) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - Design Squad - How Do Bike Gears Work? (2:38) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Mountain Bikes (7:09) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Ice Bike (7:56) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - SCIGirls - Pedal Power (28:25) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Winter Fat Tire Biking (9:10) - VIEW
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