Rainbows - April 3
Learning with a Pot of Gold at the End
Friday, April 3, 2026
Today is Good Friday, American Circus Day, Don't Go to Work Unless it's Fun Day, National Chocolate Mousse Day, National Film Score Day, National Hot Cross Bun Day, Pony Express Day, Tweed Day, World Aquatic Animal Day, World Party Day, and Find a Rainbow Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Rainbows
ON THIS DATE
- 1865 - Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia.
- 1948 - President Truman signs the Marshall Plan.
- 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
- 1783 - Short story writer Washington Irving
- 1924 - Actor Marlon Brando
- 1926 - Astronaut Gus Grissom
- 1934 - English primatologist Jane Goodall
- 1958 - Actor Alec Baldwin
- 1961 - Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy
Reading Rainbow Remixed - LISTEN- Judy Garland - Somewhere Over the Rainbow - LISTEN
- Kermit the Frog - Rainbow Connection - LISTEN
- William Wordsworth - My Heart Leaps Up
- Emily Dickinson - The Rainbow Never Tells Me
- Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Paper Woven Rainbow Craft - DO
- Grades PreK-K - NHPBS Video - Daniel Tiger - A Make Believe Rainbow World (0:56) - VIEW
- Grade PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - The Rainbow Fish: Let's Make a Rainbow Fish (14:05) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - L'Arc en Ciel/The Rainbow (2:32) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Making Rainbows Collection - VIEW
- Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - The Ruff Ruffman Show - Rainbow Popsicles - DO
- Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - Let's Learn - Catch a Rainbow (9:35) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Tally Ho! A Rainbow (12:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Scavenger Hunt Rainbow (2:41) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Walking Water Rainbow (6:17) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Rainbow Gel (1:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Best Music Lesson Ever: What Makes “Over the Rainbow” Work? (6:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Science of Rainbows (5:36) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12- PBS Learning Media - It's Okay To Be Smart - This Is Not a Rainbow (3:17) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12- PBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows Form (3:38) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12- PBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows with NO COLOR Are Possible (8:20) - VIEW
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