Farm Animals - April 10

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Today is Encourage a Young Writer Day, International Safety Pin Day, National Farm Animals Day, and Palm Sunday.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Farm Animals

ON THIS DATE

• 1866 -The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City.
• 1872 - The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
• 1912 - The RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England.
• 1916 - The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is founded in New York City.
• 1925 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published.
• 1963 - One hundred twenty-nine sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks off the coast of Massachusetts after leaving the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, ME.
• 1970 - Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles.
• 1971 - In what is known as ping pong diplomacy, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
• 1998 - The Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, is signed in Northern Ireland.
• 2019 - Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first-ever image of a black hole, in the center of the M87 galaxy.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1847 - Journalist and politician Joseph Pulitzer
• 1870 - Russian leader Vladimir Lenin
• 1880 - sociologist and 4th U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
• <1903 - Author and illustrator Clare Turlay Newberry
• 1984 - Singer and actress and Nashua, NH native Mandy Moore
• 1988 - Actor Haley Joel Osment

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Donald Hall - Ox Cart Man

THEME:  Farm Animals

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Farm Animal Song (1:34) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -  Murray Had a Little Lamb (6:48) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Old Macdonald Had a Farm (1:33) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit News: Old Macdonald's Dog (4:13) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Big Bird Visits A Farm (3:48) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Peg + Cat - On The Farm Games - DO
• Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Tower of Cows Printable Game - DO
• Grades 1-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Cartoon Academy with Joe Wos - Down on the Farm: Cow (8:20) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Farm Animals (7:30) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Holy Cow: A Cow's Digestive System (1:34) - VIEW and DO

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