Ice Cream, Gwendolyn Brooks, Black Bears, and Prairies - June 7

We Real Cool, We All Scream for Ice Cream

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day, VCR Day, Donut Day, Running Day, and Daniel Boone Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Ice Cream, Gwendolyn Brooks, Black Bears, and Prairies

ON THIS DATE

• 1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes that the Continental Congress draft a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
• 1892 - Homer Plessy is arrested after refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train.
• 1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
• 1942 - The Battle of Midway ends.
• 1965 -The Supreme Court rules in Griswold v. Connecticut that states can not criminalize the use of contraception by married couples.
• 2003 - New Hampshire Episcopalians elect an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1848 - French painter Paul Gauguin
• 1917 - Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1917 - Singer and actor  Dean Martin
• 1940 - Welsh singer Tom Jones
• 1952 - Actor Liam Neeson
• 1958 - Singer-songwriter Prince
• 1959 - Former Vice President Mike Pence
• 1978 - Actor and comedian Bill Hader

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Dean Martin - That's Amore - LISTEN
• Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual - LISTEN
• Prince - Let's Go Crazy - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Camp TV - From an Otter Point of View - VIEW

THEME: Ice Cream

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Ice Cream Parlour Fieldtrip (7:15)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1  - Sesame Street - Ernie's Ice Cream Cone (3:05) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Homemade Ice Cream (12:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Making Non-Dairy Ice Cream (10:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Arthur - An Ice Cream Experiment (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Making Ice Cream (1:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Martha Speaks - Operation Ice Cream Game - DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - DIY Science Time - Thermal Energy (23:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Delishtory - We All Scream for Ice Cream (5:30) - VIEW

THEME: Gwendolyn Brooks

• Grades 4-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - EDSITEment - Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" Lesson Plan -LISTEN, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - To Prisoners (5:56)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Poetry in America - To Prisoners (25:26)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - We Real Cool (5:46)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Gwendolyn Brooks: The Creative Person (29:09)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Honoring Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (6:52)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Gwendolyn Brooks: Still Real Cool at 100 (5:16)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Poetry in America - To Prisoners (25:26)  - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - National Academy of American Poets -Teach This Poem: “the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - National Academy of American Poets -Teach This Poem: “To Prisoners” by Gwendolyn Brooks - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - National Council of Teachers of English - Read Write Think - Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 -The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
  Lesson Plan - READ and DO

THEME: Black Bears

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Bear (2:37) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - Goldilocks and The Three Bears (25:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Bears (5:25)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear Camping (1:20) - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear-ly Swimming  (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 -  NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Jr. - Black Bear - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Black Bears (26:45) - VIEW, READ and DO

THEME: PRAIRIES

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street  - Monsterpiece Theater - Little Prairie on the Prairie (2:31) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat  - The Prairie is Awesome  (2:34) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Speaking Prairie Chicken  (2:38) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Bison Roadblock (1:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6 - EEK! - What is a Prairie? - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Vegetation on the Prairie (3:54) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wetlands: A Prairie Slough (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Biodiversity on the Prairie (3:21) - VIEW

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