Neptune, Sign Language, and Ray Charles - September 23
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Thursday, September 23, 2021
Today is Checkers Day and Dogs in Politics Day, International Day of Sign Languages, and Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day.
This is National Dog Week, Tolkien Week, and Sea Otter Awareness Week.
September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.
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Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Neptune and Sign Language
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ON THIS DATE
- 1779 - John Paul Jones says "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle.
- 1846 The planet Neptune is discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle using mathematics.
- 1889 - The Nintendo Koppai company is founded to produce the Japanese card game, Hanafuda.
- 1952 - Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon delivers what is now known as his ``Checkers'' speech.
- 63 BCE - Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emporer
- 1215 - Mongolian Emporer Kublai Khan
- 1838 - Suffragist, activist, and 1872 presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull
- 1851 - Mathematician Ellen Hayes
- 1863 - Educator and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell
- 1926 - Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane
- 1930 - Singer-songwriter Ray Charles
- Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Neptune and Home (1:18) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Neptune Coloring Sheet - PRINT and DO
- Grades 2-5 - NASA - All About Neptune - READ and VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NASA - Neptune: The Windiest Planet - READ and VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LeraningMedia - NASA - First Spacecraft at Neptune (Available in Spanish) (3:05) - READ, VIEW, and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets: Ice Worlds (52:47) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets: Ice Worlds - Five Facts About the Farthest Planet in Our Solar System (1:11) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - How Voyager Discovered that Neptune is Oddly Warm and Stormy (1:58) - VIEW
THEME: SIGN LANGUAGE
- Grades PreK-3 - Sign Language Dictionary for Kids - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12- Signing Savvy Video Sign Language Resource - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - ASL Video Dictionary - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - Sign Language 101 - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Sign the Sing-A-Long Song (0:42) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS Video - Full-Time Kids - Sign Language Alphabet (2:37) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Sign Language Translator Glove (2:37) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Video - NJTV Learning Live - ASL: Language & Community (55:26) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Video - NJTV Learning Live - Signing with Ms. Somers (57:15) - VIEW and DO
THEME; RAY CHARLES
- Grades PreK-12 - Sesame Street - Ray Charles Sings the Alphabet (1:48) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - Sesame Street - Ray Charles and Elmo Sing Believe in Yourself (2:34) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS VIDEO - An Opry Salute to Ray Charles (1:25:26) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS VIDEO - Blank On Blank - Ray Charles on Singing True - VIEW
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