Kitchen Kids, Peanuts, and Roald Dahl - September 13

Recipe for Learning

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Today is Programmers Day, Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day, National Peanut Day, Scooby-Doo Day, Uncle Sam 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 and Peanuts

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

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

• UPCOMING EVENT - Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 2024 NH Makers Fest - More Information

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