Kitchen Kids and Peanuts

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Today is Grandparent's Day, International Chocolate Day, Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day, National Peanut Day, Roald Dahl Day, Scooby-Doo Day, and Uncle Sam Day.

ON THIS DATE.

• 1788 - The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first U.S. presidential election and names New York City as the temporary capital. 
• 1948 - Maine's Margaret Chase Smith is elected to the U.S. Senate and becomes the first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate.
• 1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm Attica Prison in New York to stop rioting. $3 individuals are killed.
• 1989 - Desmond Tutu. leads the largest anti-apartheid march ever held in South Africa.
• 1993 -  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo Accords at the White House granting Palestine limited autonomy.
• 2018 - The Merrimack Valley gas explosions kill one person, injures 25, and destroys 40 homes in Massachusetts.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1851 - Physician Walter Reed
• 1857 - Chocholate manufacturer Milton Hershey
• 1874 - Composer Arnold Schoenberg
• 1903 - Actor Claudette Colbert
• 1916 - Author Roald Dahl 
• 1969 - Producer, director, screenwriter, and actor Tyler Perry
• 1971 - Fashion designer Stella McCartney,

SONG OF THE DAY 
The Kiboomers - Found a Peanut - LISTEN

THEME:  KITCHEN KIDS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - C is for Cooking with Anthony Mackie - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Learning About Cooking - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger - Making Dumplings -VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Daniel Tiger - Cooking with Daniel - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Kid Vision - Cooking School Field Trip - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat -Cook Up Some Edible Slime - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - Cooking School Game - DO
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Kooky Cooking - DO
• Grades K-4 - Fizzy's Lunch Lab - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Cooking Cookies with Solar Power -  VIEW. READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Healthy Eating - Cooking Across Generations - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Healthy Eating - Cooking for a Good Cause  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Cooking with Bill Nye  - VIEW
• GRades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Science Cooks (Full Episode) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - SciGirls - Science Cooks (Available in Spanish)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades Professional Development - PBS LearningMedia - Classroom Close-up -  Cooking with Culture-  VIEW

THEME: PEANUTS

• Grades PreK-4 - Arthur - Peanut Allergy Collection -READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - George Washington Carver:  Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Virginia Peanuts - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Peanut Solution - VIEW, READ, DO

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339