Fairy Tales - January 12

Once Upon a Time Learning

Sunday, January 12, 2025

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

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