Ice Cream and Gwendolyn Brooks - June 7
We Real Cool, We All Scream for Ice Cream
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day, National Animal Rights Day, National Child's Day, VCR Day, and Daniel Boone Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Ice Cream and Gwendolyn Brooks
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress.
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 cannot 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.
- 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
- Dean Martin - That's Amore - LISTEN
- Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual - LISTEN
- Prince - Let's Go Crazy - LISTEN
- Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool
OCEAN/RIVER MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Camp TV - From an Otter Point of View - VIEW
- 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 Activity - 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
- 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 - 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
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