Rainbows and Maurice Sendak - June 10

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Monday, June 10, 2024

Today is National Iced Tea Day, Herbs and Spices Day, and Ball Point Pen Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Rainbows and Maurice Sendak
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ON THIS DATE

• 1692 -  Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft.
• 1801 -  Tripoli declares war on the United States over a dispute over the safe passage of ships in the Mediterranean.
• 1898 -  U.S. Marines invade Spanish-held Cuba In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay,
• 1940 - Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
• 1944 - 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
• 1964 -  Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• 1967 - The Six-Day War ends when Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
• 1978 - Affirmed wins the Triple Crown.
• 2007 -  The final episode of The Sopranos airs.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1895  - Actor Hattie McDaniel
• 1910 - Blues musician Howlin' Wolf
• 1915 - Novelist Saul Bellow
• 1922 - Actor and singer Judy Garland
• 1928 - Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak
• 1929 - Biologist E. O. Wilson
• 1973 - Baseball player Pokey Reese
• 1982 - Figure Skater Tara Lipinski

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Reading Rainbow Remixed - LISTEN
• Judy Garland - Somewhere Over the Rainbow - LISTEN
• Kermit the Frog - Rainbow Connection - LISTEN
  
• Willie Nelson - Rainbow Connection - LISTEN
• Judy Garland - Get Happy - LISTEN
• Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning - LISTEN
• Journey - Don't Stop Beleavin' - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Science Trek - River Collection  - VIEW

THEME: RAINBOWS

• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Making Rainbows Media Gallery (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Tally Ho! A Rainbow (12:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Rainbow Gel (1:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Best Music Lesson Ever: What Makes “Over the Rainbow” Work? (6:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - It's Okay to Be Smart - This Is Not a Rainbow (3:17) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows Form (3:38) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows with NO COLOR Are Possible (8:20) - VIEW

THEME: MAURICE SENDAK

• PreK-K - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Where the Wild Things Are (26:36) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Newsmakers - The Mind of Maurice Sendak (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Wild Things of Author, Artist Maurice Sendak Unleashed (3:51) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Maurice Sendak on "Being A Kid" (5:02) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Remembering Maurice Sendak and His Inner Child (4:58) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - American Masters - About Maurice Sendak - READ

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INDEPENDENT LENS - Cured 
Monday, 6/10 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

INDEPENDENT LENS - Mama Bears
Monday, 6/10 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
Although they grew up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians, these moms are now willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to keep their kids safe-even if it challenges their belief systems and rips apart their worlds. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

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