Frogs and Toads - March 8

Friday, March 8, 2024

Today is Girls Write Now Day, International Women's Day, Maha Shivaratri, Peanut Cluster Day, Preschooler's Day, Proofreading Day, Retro Video Game Day, and UN Day for Women's Rights &  Peace.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: National Women's History Museum

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Frogs and Toads
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ON THIS DATE

• 1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
• 1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York.
• 1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire" during a speech.
• 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1841 - Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• 1859 - British author Kenneth Grahame
• 1922 - Actor and dancer Cyd Charisse
• 1947 - Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager
• 1953 - Baseball player Jim Rice

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Three Dog Night - Joy to the World - LISTEN
Kermit the Frog - It's Not Easy Being Green - LISTEN
Kermit the Frog - Caribbean Amphibian - LISTEN

THEME:  Frogs and Toads

• Grades PreK-12 - PBS Learning Media - Wind in the Willows: Toad and His Horse (5:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - This Frog (3:26) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit Sings Disco Frog (3:14) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Frogs of the Glen (2:30) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Caribbean Amphibian- (1:54) VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Curious George Ribbit Game - DO
• PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - How a Frog Becomes a Frog (1:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - Up Close & Natural - Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders (13:09) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Young Explorers - Go Beyond: Frogs and Toads (Amphibians) (2:13) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Malformed Frogs (4:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Frog Scientist (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife journal Junior - Anura - Frogs and Toads - READ
• Grades PreK-5 - NHPBS Video - Poison Dart Frogs at Little Rock Zoo (4:24) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - Origami Jumping Frog (5:50) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Northern Leopard Frogs Being Reintroduced Into The Wild (3:32) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Why Does This Frog Have So Many Legs? (2:42) - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Meet the Frog the Barfs Up its Babies (4:45) - VIEW 

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Pressroom Contact

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