Unicorns - April 9
Magical Learning
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Today is Appomattox Day, Chinese Almond Cookie Day, Jenkins Ear Day, Name Yourself Day, Chicken Little Awareness Day, Gin and Tonic Day, Library Day, Unicorn Day, and Winston Churchill Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Unicorns
ON THIS DATE
- 1784 - The Treaty of Paris is ratified by King George III ending the Revolutionary War.
- 1865 - Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
- 1939 - Singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her sing at Constitution Hall because she was Black.
- 1959 - NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, known as the "Mercury Seven".
- 1898 - Singer and actor Paul Robeson
- 1921 - Mathematician Mary Jackson
- 1925 - Photographer Art Kane
- 1954 - Actor Dennis Quaid
- 1990 - Actor Kristen Stewart
- 1998 - Actor Elle Fanning
Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River LISTEN
Shel Silverstein - The Unicorn - LISTEN
America - The Last Unicorn - LISTEN
POEM OF THE DAY
Stanley Plumly - White Rhino
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Uni the Unicorn (5:23) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - Great Unicorn Challenge (2:10) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - That Unicorn Feeling (1:49) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - Picture a Unicorn (3:10) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS Parents - Make a Galloping Unicorn - DO
- Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Share a Story: "It's Okay to be a Unicorn" (9:59) - VIEW
- Grades PreK
- Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Unicorn Thinks he's Pretty Great (26:37) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Camp TV - Unicorn Day (28:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ask MIT - Could You Make a Unicorn by Crossing DNA? (2:46) - VIEW
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