Vegetables, Raccoons, and Jimmy Carter - October 1

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Today is CD Player Day, Black Dog Day, World Vegetarian Day, Homemade Cookies Day, International Music Day, Raccoon Day, National Hair Day, Willy Wonka Day, World Ballet Day, Lace Day, and Walk to School Day.

World Animals Month Animal Cam of the Day:  San Diego Zoo Platypus Cam
National Dessert Month Dessert of the Day:  Blackberry Coconut Popsicles
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day:  Origin of Everything - From Stonewall Riots to Raves: How Did Pride Become a Parade?

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Vegetables, Raccoons, and Jimmy Carter

ON THIS DATE

• 1890 - Yosemite National Park is established by Congress.
• 1903 - The Boston Americans meet the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series game.
• 1957 -  "In God We Trust" appears on U.S. paper money.
• 1958 -  The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics becomes NASA.
• 1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Florida.
• 1975 - Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
• 1989 - Denmark recognizes the world's first legal same-sex partnerships.
• 2017 - Fifty-eight people are killed and 869 are injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1207 - England's King Henry III
• 1903 - Pianist Vladimir Horowitz
• 1910 - Bank robber Bonnie Parker
• 1924 - President Jimmy Carter
• 1935 - Actor and singer Julie Andrews

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Julie Andrews - My Favorite Things - LISTEN
• Georgie  Fame - The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde - LISTEN
• Merle Haggard - The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde - LISTEN
• Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Pure Imagination - LISTEN
• Dana Carvey - SNL Audition - Choppin' Broccoli - LISTEN
• Vladimir Horowitz plays Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat Major op.53 - LISTEN
  
• Almost Cut My Hair - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - LISTEN
• The Cowsills - Hair - LISTEN
• India.Arie - I Am Not My Hair - LISTEN
• America - Sister Golden Hair - LISTEN
• Mitzi Gaynor - I'm Gonna to Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair - LISTEN
• Whip My Hair - Willow Smith - LISTEN

THEME: VEGETABLES

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - V is For Vegetable (1:18) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Eating Colorful Fruits & Vegetables (2:12) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - John Leguizamo Is Captain Vegetable (3:49) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Veggie Dance (1:21) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - A Song About Broccoli (2:30) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Hurray-Hurrah For Broccoli (1:30) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - How to Make a Vegetable Sushi Roll (1:04) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Between the Lions - Joy Learno: Turnip (1:10) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - Dinosaur Discoveries: Planting a Garden (1:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Under the Ground (1:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Sid the Science Kid - Vegetable Planting Game - DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Sid the Science Kid - Vegetable Harvest Game - DO
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Valley's Gold - Artichokes (2:05) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Valley's Gold - Carrots (1:56) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS Parents - Fruit and Veggie Caterpillars - DO and EAT
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Think Garden - Plant Families (1:59) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - How Does It Grow? - Asparagus (8:10) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Career Connections - Food Scientist (5:16) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - The Vegetables of the Sea (5:51) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Japanese 236 - At the Vegetable and Fruit Store (26:48) - VIEW and DO

THEME: RACCOONS

• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Animal Alphabet - Raccoon (0:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Masked Bandits at the Campfire (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Camp TV - Paper Heart Raccoon Craft (2:16) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratt's Creatures - Crazy Marty is Selling Raccoon Houses (1:14)  - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratt's Creatures - Night Prowl (1:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - The Mysterious Minds of Raccoons (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Raccoons and the City (Available in Spanish) (6:09)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Learning to Be a Raccoon (Available in Spanish) (4:02)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Raccoons Gone Wild  (Available in Spanish) (4:45)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Observing the Secret Life of  Raccoons (Available in Spanish) (5:40)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Jamaica Bay: Terrapin Predators (5:42) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  JIMMY CARTER

• Grades PreK-3 - The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer Read By Jimmy Carter (11:03) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer Read By Jimmy Carter (11:03) (In Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - 60 Second President - Jimmy Carter (1:21) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Civil Rights Movement: A Tale of Two Governors - Jimmy Carter (4:00) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - When Music Makes History - Ramblin' Man (1:24) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - In Their Own Words - Jimmy Carter (54:18) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Amanpour and Company - Jimmy Carter: The Most Misunderstood President in US History (17:14) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Inflation (1:22) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Rosalynn (1:07) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Campaigning on Honesty (0:50) - VIEW
  
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Energy Crisis (1:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter -The Camp David Accords (2:18) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Selected Clips - READ and VIEW

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