Tap Dancing and Otters - May 25

Step-Heel and Heel-Step Learning

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Today is National Tap Dance Day, Towel Day ( celebrated by carrying a towel in honor of author Douglas Adams), National Brown-Bag-It Day, National Wine Day, World Otter Day, and Geek Pride Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Tap Dancing and Otters

ON THIS DATE

240 BC - First recorded passage of Halley's Comet.
1787- The Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
1878 - Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1925 - John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
1953 - KHUT located at the University of Houston begins broadcasting as the first public TV station.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy announces, before a joint session of the Congress, that the U.S. will put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1977 - Star Wars is released.
2020- George Floyd is murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest.

BIRTHDAYS

1803 - Poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson
1878 - Dancer and actor Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
1908 - Poet Theodore Roethke
1929 - Opera singer Beverly Sills
1932 - Celtics basketball player and coach K. C. Jones
1939 - English actor Ian McKellen
1944 - Muppeteer Frank Oz
1963 - Actor, producer, and screenwriter Mike Myers
1970 - Actor Octavia Spencer

SONGS OF THE DAY

Beverly Sills - Una Voce Poco Fa!! - LISTEN
HMS Pinafore - When I Was a Lad - LISTEN
The Simpsons - Sideshow Bob - HMS Pinafore - LISTEN
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mister Bojangles - LISTEN
Sammy Davis Jr. - Mister Bojangles - LISTEN

THEME: Tap Dancing

Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -Savion Glover Rhymes and Taps (2:02) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Debut (1:49) - VIEW
Grades PreK-3 - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Tap Dancing (1:46) - VIEW
Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DanceSense: Tap and Percussive Dance (14:30) - VIEW and DO
Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - NYC Arts - Profile of Ayodele Casel (28:16) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Jump Rope and Tap Dance Routine in "Shaking the Blues Away (1:36) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Black Journal- Savion Glover (11:24) - VIEW
Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - The Body Becomes Music When This Dancer Taps Tradition (6:59) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Articulate - Tap Into America (8:21) - VIEW

THEME: Otters

Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Dance Like an Otter (1:02) - VIEW
Grades K-2 - Monterey Bay Aquarium Learn At Home Free Class - VIEW and DO
Grades 3-12 - Sea Otters - Monterey Bay Aquarium - READ and VIEW
Grades K-5 - Wild Kratts - Otter Power - (2:06) VIEW
Grades K-5 - Wild Kratts - River Otters vs. Sea Otters (7:00) - VIEW
Grades K-5 - Cyberchase - Sea Otters, Kelp, and Urchins (2:33) - VIEW
Grades PreK-12 - Monterey Bay Aquarium - Sea Otter Live Cam - VIEW
Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonFly TV - Otters (7:42) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Sea Otters vs. Climate Change (7:19) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - The Urchin and the Otter (6:49) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A Sea Otters Adorable Adoption Story (6:54) - VIEW

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