Wind and Beverly Cleary - April 12
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Today is Big Wind Day, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, International Day of Human Space Flight, and National Licorice Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: WIND
ON THIS DATE
- 1861 - Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, beginning the Civil war.
- 1934 - The strongest surface wind gust in the world, 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington. The record is now a 253 mph wind gust recorded on Barrow Island, Australia during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996.
- 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office.
- 1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space.
- 1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place
- 1916 - Children's author Beverly Cleary
- 1947 - Author Tom Clancy
- 1947 - Talk show host and comedian David Letterman
- 1950 - Singer-songwriter and actor David Cassidy
- 1952 - Poet and children's author Gary Soto
- 1957 - Singer-songwriter Vince Gill
- 1979 - Actor Claire Danes
- Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cries Mary - LISTEN
- Kansas - Dust in the Wind - LISTEN
- Bob Dylan - Blowin' In the Wind - LISTEN
- Elton John - Rocketman - LISTEN
- David Bowie - Space Oddity - LISTEN
- Robert Frost - To the Thawing Wind
- William Shakespeare - Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
- Gary Soto - Evening On the Lawn
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Listen to the Wind Blow (2:52) - VIEW
- Grades K-2 - Sid the Science Kid - What is Wind (1:35) - VIEW
- Grades 1-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Wind Power Experiment (3:16) - VIEW
- Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Blowin' in the Wind (28:05) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - National Weather Service - Beaufort Wind Scale - READ
- Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Measuring Wind Speed (1:13) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Wind Power (2:33) - VIEW and DO
THEME: Beverly Cleary
- grades K-12 - ReadWriteThink - Today is D.E.A.R. Day - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Discovering Beverly Cleary (27:42) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour - Beloved Children's Author Beverly Cleary Dies at 104 - READ
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