Swans and Swan Lake - February 20
Big Bird Learning
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Today is Clean Out Your Bookcase Day, Cherry Pie Day, Muffin Day, World Anthropology Day, and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
Black History Month Resource of the Day: Barack Obama
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Swans
ON THIS DATE
- 1792 - President George Washington signs an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
- 1816 - Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres in Rome.
- 1872 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City
- 1877 - Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
- 1962 - John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
- 2003 - A fire breaks out at a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, killing 100 and injuring over 200.
- 1902 - Photographer Ansel Adams
- 1927 - Actor Sidney Poitier
- 1967 - Singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain
- 1984 - Comedian Trevor Noah
- 1988 - Singer-songwriter Rihanna
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony - Rabbit of Seville - LISTEN- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - LISTEN
Rihanna - Umbrella - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - The Ugly Duckling Becoming a Swan (23:55) - VIEW and DO
- GRades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Camp TV - Swans (0:59) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - The Romantic Period: Swan Lake Ballet (4:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Jr. - Mute Swan - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Jr. - Tundra Swan - READ
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia -Nature - Sitara the Swan (4:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
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