Superheroes - April 28

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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Today is Blueberry Pie Day, Cubicle Day, Superhero Day, and Pinhole Photography Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Superheroes
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ON THIS DATE

  • 1789 - The crew of the British ship Bounty mutiny, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in the South Pacific.
  • 1967 -Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the  Army.
  • 1973 - The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, where it remains for  741 weeks.

BIRTHDAYS

SONGS OF THE DAY 

  • Five For Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy) - LISTEN
  • Foo Fighters - My Hero -  LISTEN
  • Pink Floyd - Breathe - LISTEN
  • The Andrews Sisters - Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree - LISTEN

POEMS OF THE DAY 

THEME:  Superheroes

  • Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Superhero - The Musical (7:18)- VIEW
  • Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's the Kindest Superhero (1:31) - VIEW
  • Grades PreK-3 - Daniel Tiger - Daniel the Germ-Fighting Superhero (1:28) - VIEW
  • Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Molly of Denali - Homemade Heroes (25:25 - VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades K-5 - NHPBS Kids Writers Contest - You Don’t Have to Have Super Powers to Be a Superhero (2:20) - VIEW
  • Grades 1-5 - NHPBS Video - Camp TV - Superhero Science (6:55) - VIEW
  • Grades 1-5 - NHPBS Video - Camp GPB - Drawing a Superhero (5:24) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Indies - The Hummingbirds (10:16) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Disney's Mrs. Marvel Features the First Muslim Superhero (7:42) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Is Superhero Strength Real? (3:35) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Comic Culture - Roy Schartz: Comic Historian (26:47) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Comic Culture Series - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

POETRY IN AMERICA - July in Washington
Sunday, 4/28 from 6:30-7 pm NHPBS
Against the backdrop of 1964 Washington D.C., Robert Lowell wrote this timeless reflection on the contradictions between American idealism and American policy. Journalists Andrea Mitchell and Justin Worland, political commentators David Axelrod and Bill Kristol, scholar Sir Jonathan Bate, and psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison join host Elisa New. POETRY IN AMERICA  Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

H2O: THE MOLECULE THAT MADE US - Civilizations
Sunday, 4/28 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Travel into the past to see how water may have driven our evolution -- and created civilizations. But can the Earth's water supplies guarantee our future? H20: THE MOLECULE THAT MADE US Streaming Video

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