Bicycles - April 19
Pedal Pushing Learning
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Today is Bicycle Day, National Garlic Day, National Poker Day, and Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Bicycles
ON THIS DATE
- 1775 - The Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1897 - The first Boston Marathon is run.
- 1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1985 - The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
- 1993 - A 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas ends when a fire breaks out, killing 76 Davidians.
- 1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 and injuring 500.
- 1806 - Labor leader Sarah Bagley
- 1831 - Magazine editor Mary Louise Booth
- 1903 - Federal law enforcement agent Eliot Ness
- 1978 - Actor James Franco
- Queen - Bicycle Race - LISTEN
- Tom Waits - Broken Bicycles- LISTEN
- Nat King Cole - On a Bicycle Built for Two - LISTEN
POEM OF THE DAY
Henry Charles Beeching - Going Down Hill on a Bicycle
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Murray Learns to Ride a Bike (4:14) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Learning to Ride a Bike (1:18) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Making music with Bike Instruments (1:35) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie and Herry Share a Bike (1:23) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Daniel's New Bike (3:54) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - Design Squad - How Do Bike Gears Work? (2:38) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Mountain Bikes (7:09) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Ice Bike (7:56) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - SCIGirls - Pedal Power (28:25) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Winter Fat Tire Biking (9:10) - VIEW
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