Tap Dancing and Otters - May 25

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

Pressroom Contact

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