Skateboarding, Limericks, and Mothers - May 12

Grinding Out Some Learning

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Today is Mother's Day,  International Nurses Day, Limerick Day, and National Nutty Fudge Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Skateboarding, Sharks, and Limericks
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ON THIS DATE

• 1780 - Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces during the Revolutionary War.
• 1942 - The U.S. oil tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed at the mouth of the Mississippi River by a German submarine U-507, killing 2 crew members.
• 1949- The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin

BIRTHDAYS

• 1812 - English poet Edward Lear
• 1820 - English nurse Florence Nightingale
• 1907 - Actor Katharine Hepburn
• 1925 - Baseball player and coach Yogi Berra
• 1937 - Comedian and actor George Carlin
• 1948 - English musician Steve Winwood
• 1968 - Skateboarder Tony Hawk

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life Again - LISTEN
• The Beatles - Julia - LISTEN
• The Shirelles - Mama Said - LISTEN
  
• Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not to Come - LISTEN
• Taylor Swift - The Best Day - LISTEN

ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

X is for Intersectionality | ABC's of AAPIs

THEME:  Skateboarding

• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Young Explorers - Get Up & Go Play!: Skate Park (2:54) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Sid the Science Kid - Inertia! (1:53) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Skateboards (5:22) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Under a Minute - Learning To Skateboard in a War Zone (If You're A Girl) (0:59) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour (2018) - Tony Hawk Turns 50 -- and He Has a Trick for Every Year (9:12) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Skate SD: Tony Hawk and the Del Mar Skate Ranch (4:18) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Big Tell - Professional (Teacher) AND Skater (5:00) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - How an IMPOSSIBLE Skateboarding Trick Works ft Rodney Mullen (9:00) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics in Motion - Kinetic Energy and Gravitational Potential Energy (5:14) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Apache Skateboarders: Straddling the Past and Present (3:36) - VIEW and DO

Limericks

• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - A Fellow Named Sig (0:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS Video - Read Write Roar - Going Green (26:45) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Electric Company - Limerick-Off (21:43) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - Read WriteThink - Limericks - READ and DO
• Grades 3-12 - Project Gutenberg - A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - The Slice - Limerick Off (1:17) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Children's Author Bindy Bitterman on Writing Limericks (3:26) - VIEW

THEME:  Mothers

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mother's Day Song (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Steet - M is for Mom (1:28) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mom and Me (1:44)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rotten Grouchy Mother's Day (1:06) - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - Cyberchase - Mother's Day (8:33) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Anna Jarvis and the History of Mother's Day (4:28) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Nature - Orangutans: Mother Knows Best (5:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere -Mother's Day, by Daisy Zamora (1:15) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Migrant Mother: Dorothea Lange (3:23)- VIEW and DO

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