Neptune, Sign Language, and Ray Charles - September 23

Friday, September 23, 2022

• Today is Checkers Day and Dogs in Politics Day, International Day of Sign Languages, Native American Day, and Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day.
  
• This is National Dog Week, Tolkien Week, and Sea Otter Awareness Week.
  
  
• September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.
  
• Hispanic/Latino Resource of the Day: National Museum of the American Latino
• Classical Music Resource of the Day: Gustav Holst - Neptune

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Neptune, Sign Language, and Ray Charles
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ON THIS DATE

• 1779 - John Paul Jones says  "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle.
• 1846 The planet Neptune is discovered using mathematics.
• 1889 - The Nintendo Koppai company is founded to produce the Japanese card game, Hanafuda.
• 1952 -  Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon delivers what is now known as his  ``Checkers'' speech.

BIRTHDAYS

• 63 BCE - Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emporer
• 1215 - Mongolian Emporer Kublai Khan
• 1838 - Suffragist, activist, and 1872 presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull
• 1851 - Mathematician Ellen Hayes
• 1863 - Educator and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell
• 1926 - Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane
• 1930 - Singer-songwriter Ray Charles 

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• John Coltrane - Equinox - LISTEN
• Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack - LISTEN

THEME: NEPTUNE

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Neptune and Home (1:18) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - CampTV - Uranus and Neptune (6:11) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Neptune Coloring Sheet - PRINT and DO
• Grades 2-5 - NASA - All About Neptune - READ and VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NASA - Neptune: The Windiest Planet - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LeraningMedia - NASA - First Spacecraft at Neptune (Available in Spanish) (3:05) - READ, VIEW, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets: Ice Worlds (52:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets: Ice Worlds - Five Facts About the Farthest Planet in Our Solar System (1:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - How Voyager Discovered that Neptune is Oddly Warm and Stormy (1:58) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Planets: Ice Worlds - Triton (4:58) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Uranus and Neptune (12:15) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LeraningMedia - NASA - The Evolution of the Kuiper Belt (Available in Spanish) (2:33) - READ, VIEW, and DO

THEME:  SIGN LANGUAGE

• Grades PreK-3 - Sign Language Dictionary for Kids - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Sign Language ABC  (26:09) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS Video - Rise and Shine - A Looks at the Deaf Community and Sign Language (7:54) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12- Signing Savvy Video Sign Language Resource - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 3-12 - ASL Video Dictionary - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - Sign Language 101 - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Sign the Sing-A-Long Song (0:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS Video - Full-Time Kids - Sign Language Alphabet (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Sign Language Translator Glove (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Video - NJTV Learning Live - ASL: Language & Community (55:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Video - NJTV Learning Live - Signing with Ms. Somers (57:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Anyone Like Me (25:44) - VIEW

THEME; RAY CHARLES

• Grades PreK-12 - Sesame Street - Ray Charles Sings the Alphabet (1:48) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - Sesame Street - Ray Charles and Elmo Sing Believe in Yourself (2:34) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank On Blank - Ray Charles on Singing True (5:07) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Historian's Take - Where Did the Blind Black Musician Trope Come From? (7:29) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - When Music Makes History - Ray Charles America the Beautiful (1:19) -  VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lawmakers - LM 50 Moment: Ray Charles Sings Georgia On My Mind (1979) (26:20) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Rocking Out to Ray in the White House (2:05) - VIEW

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Friday, 9/23 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Travel to the mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma, the area's biggest and most elusive predator. Discover how this mountain lion survives and follow the dramatic fate of a puma mother and her cubs. NATURE Streaming Video

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