Kangaroos - May 15
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Sunday, May 15, 2022
Today is International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day, National Chocolate Chip Day, and International Day of Families.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Kangaroos
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ON THIS DATE
- 1911 - The Supreme Court rules that Standard Oil is a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders that it be broken up.
- 1941 - Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
- 1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female Army generals.
- 1567 - Italian composer and priest Claudio Monteverdi
- 1689 - English writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- 1856 - Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum
- 1857 - Astronomer Williamina Fleming
- 1859 - French physicist Pierre Curie
- 1890 - Writer Katherine Anne Porter
- 1909 - English actor James Mason
- 1923 - Photographer Richard Avedon
- 1930 - Artist Jasper Johns
- 1936 - Playwright and novelist Paul Zindel
- 1937 - Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright
- 1940 - Businessman Roger Ailes
Men At Work - I Come From a Land Down Under - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Paws for a Minute - Tree Kangaroo (1:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Five Kangaroos with Jessica Mauboy! (1:53) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Steet - Kangaroo Blues (1:52) - VIEW
- Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Kicking It With the Roos (26:26) -VIEW
- Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Kangaroos (4:27) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Kickboxing Kangaroos (2:14) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Macropod Mania (2:14) - VIEW
- Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cartoon Academy - Kangaroo and Joey Too (6:12) - VIEW And DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Kangaroo Island: Australian Bushfire Rescue (9:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Australia's First Four Billion Years - The Evolution of Kangaroos (3:43) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Gross Science - Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming? (2:26) - VIEW and DO
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