Bats and Haiku - April 17
Batty Over Poetry Learning
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Today is Banana Day, Bat Appreciation Day, Blah Blah Blah Day, Ellis Island Family History Day, Ford Mustang Day, Cheeseball Day, Haiku Poetry Day, Kickball Day, School Librarian Day, and World Hemophilia Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Bats and Haiku
ON THIS DATE
- 1861 - The Virginia State Convention votes to secede from the Union.
- 1961 - A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.
- 1970 - Apollo 13 returns to Earth.
- 1894 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev
- 1897 - Playwright Thornton Wilder
POEM OF THE DAY
D.H. Lawrence - Bat
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Batty Bat Song (3:01) - VIEW
- Grades: PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Bat Mobile Printable - DO
- Grades: K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek- Bats (3:08) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Bats (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO
- Grades: 1-5 - Wild Kratts - A Night Out with Bats (1:48) - VIEW
- Grades: 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Bat Biologist (Available in Spanish) (1:58) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Junior - Chiroptera - Bats - READ
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Bats (26:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades: 5-12 - NHPBS Video - EONS - When Bats Took Flight (11:10) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Wildlife Journal junior - In Search of Bats (9:36) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Bats and Moths: Sound Battles (4:14) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Bats: Guardians of the Night (4:54) - VIEW
THEME: Haiku
- Grades 2-4 - NHPBS Video - Teaching In Room 9 - Write & Analyze Genres of Poems (27:54) - VIEW
- Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - Education Station - Readers Theater, Short Story Project, and Haiku! (29:03) - VIEW
- Grade 3-12 - ReadWriteThink - Haiku Poem Interactive - DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - Selected Haiku by Issa (1:32) - VIEW, READ, DO
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