Cakes and Charles Schulz - November 26

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Today is National Cake Day, Good Grief Day, and Small Brewery Sunday.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Cakes and Charles Schulz
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ON THIS DATE

• 1789 - A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington.
• 1863 - President Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November.  
• 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
• 1940 - Half a million Jews in Warsaw, Poland, are forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto.
• 1942 - Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York.
• 1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders nationwide gasoline rationing.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1731 - English poet William Cowper 
• 1732 - Activist Sarah Moore Grimké
• 1832 - Surgeon, activist, and Medal of Honor recipient Mary Edwards Walker
• 1909 - French playwright Eugene Ionesco
• 1922 - Cartoonist Charles Schulz
• 1939 - Singer Tina Turner

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Tina Turner - Proud Mary - LISTEN
• Richard Harris - McArthur Park - LISTEN

THEME:  Cakes

• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peg+Cat - Cake Time (2:00) - VIEW AND DO
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peg+Cat - Make the Cake Digital Game - VIEW AND DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Cupcake Calamity (1:56) - VIEW AND DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ruff Ruffman - Chocolate Mug Cake - DO
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Snack Cakes (1:45) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - ODD Squad - Missing Cakes (1:47) - VIEW AND DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Martha Speaks - Skits and Martha Bake a Cake - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Math at the Core - Proportional Relationships and Slope
   - VIEW AND DO
• Grades 6-12 - NPBS Video - Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths and Secret - Let Them Eat Cake (2:46) - - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - A Kentucky Organization Tha Changes Kids' Lives with Cake (3:23) - VIEW

THEME:  Charles Schulz

• Grades 5-12 - Charles Schulz Museum - EXPLORE
• Grades 5-12 - Peanuts Cartoon - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - 1965 Charles Schulz "Peanuts" Strip (2:58) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - 1949 Charles Schulz "Li'l Folks" Strip (2:08) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - 1985 Charles Schulz Snoopy Sketch  (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Charles Schulz Comic Strip Art ca. 1960 (3:55) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Charles Schulz Drawing and Letter (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - American Experience - Charles Shulz - READ
• Grades 7-12 - PBS NewsHour - 8 Things You Didn't Know About Charles Schulz - READ

Watch 

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Pressroom Contact

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Director of Communications
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