Grammar and Mardi Gras - March 4
Learning is the Word!
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Mardi Gras, Benjamin Harrison Day, Marching Music Day, Backcountry Ski Day, Dance the Waltz Day, Grammar Day, Pound Cake Day, Pancake Day, Snack Day, Sons Day, and Toy Soldier Day.
Women's History Month Resource of the Day: All About the Holidays: Women's History Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Grammar
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ON THIS DATE
- 1681 - Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
- 1791 - Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
- 1794 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 1797 - John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America.
- 1917 - Republican Jeanette Rankin of Montana takes her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
- 1933 - Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to serve in the Cabinet.
- 1678 - Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi
- 1888 - Football coach Knute Rockne
- 1954 - Actor Catherine O'Hara
- 1966 - Children's author and illustrator Dav Pilkey
- Schoolhouse Rock - Unpack Your Adjectives - LISTEN
- Schoolhouse Rock - Conjunction Junction - LISTEN
- Schoolhouse Rock - A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing - LISTEN
Antonio Vivaldi - Spring - LISTEN- The Orginal Caste - One Tin Soldier - LISTEN
- Grades 1-12- PBS LearningMedia - No Nonsense Grammar Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Dialogue - "Comma Queen" Mary Norris (28:51) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - The Subversive Copy Editor Takes Grammar (7:36) - VIEW
THEME: Mardi Gras
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Mardi Gras (1:36) - VIEW
- Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jazz: A Brass Band Performance - When the Saints Go Marching In (2:10) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Mardi Gras (2:51) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Float Building (27:45) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Art Rocks! The Series - Artist Herb Roe (28:39) - VIEW
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