Pretty as a Picture
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Today is Draw A Bird Day and National Empanada Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Birds in Art
ON THIS DATE
- 1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain.
- 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
- 1913 - The 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
- 1952 - In an attempt to stop a steel strike, President Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills.
- 1975 - Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
BIRTHDAYS
SONGS OF THE DAY
- The Beatles - Blackbird- LISTEN
- Nelly Furtado - I’m Like a Bird - LISTEN
POEM OF THE DAY
Emily Dickinson - A Bird Came Down the Walk
THEME: BIRDS in ART
- Grades 1-5 - Yedraw - How to Draw a Bird (2:02) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 2-12 - Museum of American Bird Art - VIEW nd READ
- Grades 4-12 - Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art - VIEWand READ
- Grades 5-12- Audubon - How to Draw a Bird - READ and DO
- Grades 5-12 - National Gallery of Art - John James Audubon - READ and VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - Picturing America: John James Audubon (6:31) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - The Gray Heron (7:07) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Birding and the Photography of Elizabeth Boehm (27:07) - VIEW
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