Rainbows and Maurice Sendak - June 10

Wild Multicolored Learning

Friday, June 10, 2022

Today is National Iced-Tea Day and Ball Point Pen Day.

June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month; National Oceans Month; National Rivers Month; and National Caribbean-American Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Rainbows and Maurice Sendak

ON THIS DATE

1692 - Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft.
1801 - Tripoli declares war on the United States over a dispute over safe passage of ships in the Mediterranean.
1898 - U.S. Marines invade Spanish-held Cuba In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay,
1940 - Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
1944 - 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1964 - Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1967 - The Six-Day War ends when Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1978 - Affirmed wins the Triple Crown.
2007 - The final episode of The Sopranos airs.

BIRTHDAYS

1895 - Actor Hattie McDaniel
1910 - Blues musician Howlin' Wolf
1915 - Novelist Saul Bellow
1922 - Actor and singer Judy Garland
1928 - Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak
1929 - Biologist E. O. Wilson
1973 - Baseball player Pokey Reese
1982 - Figure Skater Tara Lipinski

SONGS OF THE DAY

Reading Rainbow Remixed - LISTEN
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - LISTEN
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Science Trek - River Collection - VIEW

THEME: RAINBOWS

Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Making Rainbows Media Gallery (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Tally Ho! A Rainbow (12:05) - VIEW and DO
Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Rainbow Gel (1:05) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Best Music Lesson Ever: What Makes “Over the Rainbow” Work? (6:00) - VIEW and DO
Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - It's Okay to Be Smart - This Is Not a Rainbow (3:17) - VIEW
Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows Form (3:38) - VIEW
Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows with NO COLOR Are Possible (8:20) - VIEW

THEME: MAURICE SENDAK

PreK-K - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Where the Wild Thing Are (26:36) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Newsmakers - The Mind of Maurice Sendak (26:46) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Wild Things of Author, Artist Maurice Sendak Unleashed (3:51) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Maurice Sendak on "Being A Kid" (5:02) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Remembering Maurice Sendak and His Inner Child (4:58) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - American Masters - About Maurice Sendak - READ

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