Kitchen Kids, Peanuts, Roald Dahl ], and Friday the 13th - September 13

Recipe for Learning

Friday, September 13, 2024

Today is Blame Someone Else Day, Fortune Cookie Day, Friday the 13th, Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day, National Peanut Day, Scooby-Doo Day, Uncle Sam Day, Supernatural Day, and Roald Dahl Day.

• Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Resource of the Day: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Say Latino?
• Classical Music Month Resource of the Day: State of the Arts:  Classical Music: Strange Bedfellows

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Kitchen Kids, Peanuts, Roald Dahl, and Friday the 13th.

ON THIS DATE

• 1788 - The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first U.S. presidential election and names New York City as the temporary capital. 
• 1948 - Maine's Margaret Chase Smith is elected to the U.S. Senate and becomes the first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate.
• 1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm Attica Prison in New York to stop rioting. 
• 1989 - Desmond Tutu leads the largest anti-apartheid march ever held in South Africa.
• 1993 -  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo Accords at the White House granting Palestine limited autonomy.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1851 - Physician Walter Reed
• 1857 - Chocolatier Milton Hershey
• 1874 - Composer Arnold Schoenberg
• 1903 - Actor Claudette Colbert
• 1916 - Author Roald Dahl 
• 1969 - Producer, director, screenwriter, and actor Tyler Perry
• 1971 - Fashion designer Stella McCartney

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Kiboomers - Found a Peanut - LISTEN
• Arthur Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 - LISTEN
• Stevie Wonder - Superstition - LISTEN

THEME: KITCHEN KIDS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - C is for Cooking with Anthony Mackie (2:12)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Learning About Cooking (0:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger - Making Dumplings (2:17) -VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Daniel Tiger - Cooking with Daniel (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kid Vision - Cooking School Field Trip (8:50) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat -Cook Up Some Edible Slime (1:22) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - Cooking School Game - DO
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Kooky Cooking - DO
• Grades K-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Cooking Cookies with Solar Power (3:12) -  VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Healthy Eating - Cooking Across Generations (2:51) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Healthy Eating - Cooking for a Good Cause (2:48)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Science Cooks (28:00) - VIEW
• Grades Professional Development - NHPBS LearningMedia - Classroom Close-up -  Cooking with Culture (4:11) -  VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Amy LaBelle's Cooking with Kids - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - Twice As Good - VIEW

THEME: PEANUTS

• Grades 3-7 - NHPBS LearningMedia - George Washington Carver:  Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher (Available in Spanish) (4:02) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Virginia Peanuts (29:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -The Peanut Solution (4:40) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: ROALD DAHL

• Grades 2-6 - NHPBS Video - Rainbow Readers - Loren Cook - Matilda Review (0:53) - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - NHPBS Video - Rainbow Readers - Owen Cook - Matilda Review (0:32) - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - NHPBS Video - Rainbow Readers - Mia Jackson - Fantastic Mr. Fox Review (0:57) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - ReadWriteThink - Roald Dahl Activities and Resources - READ and DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Roald Dahl: 1973 Letters and Poems (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - 1964 Autographed Roald Dahl Book (1:22) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - 1964 Inscribed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Book (3:41) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - BBC - The Marvelous World of Roald Dahl (59:11) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - BBC - The Dark Side of Roald Dahl - READ
• Grades 9-12 - BBC - Newsround - Seven Fantastic Facts About Roald Dahl - READ

THEME:  Friday the 13th

• Grades PreK-1 - Peg + Cat - Friday the 13th (1:19)  - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-6 - CBC (Canadian Broadcasting) Kids - Who's Afraid of Friday the 13th? - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS NewsHour - It's Friday the 13th - READ

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