Butterflies - April 27

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Today is Babe Ruth Day, World Tapir Day, Morse Code Day, Woody Woodpecker Day, and National Prime Rib Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Butterflies

ON THIS DATE

• 1861 - President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
• 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
• 2006 - Construction begins on a 1,776-foot building on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1759 - English women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1791 -  Inventor Samuel Morse
• 1822 - General and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant
• 1898 - Children's author and illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans
• 1899 - Animator and director Walter Lantz
• 1927 - Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King
• 1975 - Baseball player and Exeter, NH native Chris Carpenter
• 1988 - Singer Lizzo

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Dolly Parton - Love Is Like a Butterfly - LISTEN
• Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Emily Dickinson - The Butterfly's Day 

THEME:  Butterflies

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Little Butterfly Friend Song (1:45) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - 11 Butterflies (1:18) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Learning Media - If I Was a Butterfly (5:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - KidVision - A Day with a Butterfly Expert  (9:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Dinosaur Train - All About Butterflies  (1:39) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Butterfly Garden  (2:17) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Crafts for Kids - Make a Butterfly Costume  (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Butterflies: They Taste With Their Feet  (4:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6- SciGirls - Butterfly Diaries (26:10) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Butterfly Wings  (7:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Moths and Butterflies -  READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Wildlife Journal Junior - Karner Blue Butterfly  (8:26) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Deep Look - Glasswing Butterflies Want To Make Something Perfectly Clear (5:24) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Quest - Fire and Butterflies  (5:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - The Mystery of the World's Greatest Butterfly Migration (9:12) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Using Gene Editing To Repaint Butterfly Wings  (11:13)  - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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