Fruit - December 27

Friday, December 27, 2024

Today is Visit the Zoo Day, Fruitcake Day, and Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Fruit

ON THIS DATE

• 1932 - Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
• 1935 - Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi.
• 1945 - The World Bank is created with an agreement signed by 28 nations.
• 1968 - Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the moon, returns to Earth.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1571 - German  mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler
• 1822 - German microbiologist Louis Pasteur
• 1901 - German actor Marlene Dietrich

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Marlene Dietrich - Falling In Love Again - LISTEN
  
• The Beatles - Strawberry Fileds Forever - LISTEN
• Prince - Raspberry Beret - LISTEN
• The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches - LISTEN
• Merv Griffin - I've Got  a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts - LISTEN

THEME:  Fruit

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - From Seed to Fruit (Available in Spanish) (2:01) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -  Name That Fruit with Chrissy Teigen (3:07) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: - Sing Fruit Salad with the Wiggles (3:27) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Odd Squad -  A Fistful of Fruit Juice (11:00) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia -  Science Trek - Growing a Better Peach (6:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - NC Science Now - Fruit Infusion (5:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - NC Science Now - Super Fruit Scenario (6:00) - VIEW and DO

Pressroom Contact

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