Fairy Tales - January 12

Friday, January 12, 2024

Today is National Curried Chicken Day and National Marzipan Day.

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

ON THIS DATE

• 1921 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
• 1932 - Hattie Caraway of Arkansas becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• 1959 - Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records.
• 1969 - Led Zeppelin's first album is released.
• 1971 - The sitcom "All in the Family" premieres on CBS.
• 2010 - An earthquake in Haiti kills as many as 300,000 people.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1628 - French writer Charles Perrault
• 1737 - Founding father John Hancock
• 1856 - Painter John Singer Sargent
• 1876 - Author Jack London
• 1944 - Boxer Joe Frazier
• 1944- Singer and trumpet player Cynthia Robinson
• 1954 - Radio host Howard Stern
• 1958 - Journalist Christiane Amanpour
• 1964 - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused - LISTEN
• Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the Music - LISTEN
• Taylor Swift - Today Was a Fairy Tale - LISTEN
• Anita Baker - Fairy Tales - LISTEN
• Into the Woods - No One is Alone - LISTEN

THEME:  Fairytales

• Grades PreK-K - PBS Learningmedia - Circle Time at Home - Jack and the Beanstalk (5:11) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - PBS Learningmedia - Circle Time at Home - The Three Little Pigs Puppet Show (3:29) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - PBS Learningmedia - Circle Time at Home - Little Red Riding Hood (11:31) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rapunzel's Bad Hair Day (4:10) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Big Bad Wolf (4:38) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Fairytales Today - Food Strike (2:56) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover's Fairytale (3:32) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - F is for Fairytale (1:40) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Abby's Flying Fairy School Fairy Fun Pack Printables - PRINT and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - Rapunzel (25:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - The Princess and the Pea (26:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - The Three Little Pigs (25:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Young Explorers - What are Fairy Tales? (1:29) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Grimm's Fairy Tales - READ
• Grades K-12 - Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales - READ
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Understanding Fairy Tales Old and New Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - Great Performances: The Little Mermaid -Transformation (4:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Great Performances: The Little Mermaid - Artistic Interpretation (5:36) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Great Performances: The Little Mermaid - Character Analysis (3:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Great Performances: The Little Mermaid -Transformation (4:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Monstrum - The Dark Origins of Hansel and Gretel (9:09) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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