Nursery Rhymes and Rhinos - May 1

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Today is Batman Day, May Day, Mother Goose Day, Chocolate Parfait Day, Skilled Trades Day, Save the Rhino Day, School Principals' Day, and Law Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Nursery Rhymes and Rhinos
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day

ON THIS DATE

• 1866 - The Memphis Race Riots begin.
• 1884 - Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• 1886 - Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour workday, 
• 1900 - The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah 
• 1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
• 1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
• 1999 - SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1751 - Poet, playwright, and women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray
• 1852 - Frontierswoman and scout Calamity Jane
• 1907 - Singer Kate Smith
• 1918 - Talk show host Jack Paar
• 1923 - Novelist Joseph Heller
• 1925 - Astronaut Scott Carpenter
• 1939 - Singer Judy Collins

SONG OF THE DAY 

Judy Collins - Both Sides Now - LISTEN
Kate Smith - God Bless America - LISTEN

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
NHPBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans Collection

THEME:  Nursery Rhymes

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Nursery Rhyme Collection (2:01:10) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Nursery Rhyme with Kate McKinnon (1:58) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Mother Goose's School for Nursery Rhyme with Shirley Jones (13:42) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS Kids - Nursery Rhymes (10:17) -VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - This Little Piggy (26:46) -VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1- NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Pat-a-Cake (26:46) -VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Jack and Jill (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Humpty Dumpty (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Mary Had a Little Lamb (26:46) - VIEW
• Grade K - ReadWriteThink - Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose - DO
  
• Grades Parents - Nursery Rhyme Reading Fun! (0:30) - VIEW

RHINOS

• Grades PreK - 12 - Houston Zoo - Rhino Yard Cam - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - Rhino Bowl - PLAY
  
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Fetch with Ruff Ruffman - Dress That Rhino - PLAY
  
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Fetch with Ruff Ruffman - Turn Your Rhino Into a Dog (Available in Spanish) (4:09) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Meet the Rhino! (1:57) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Rhino Crash Course (5:10) - VIEW
  
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Young Explorers - Go Wild: The Endangered Eastern Black Rhino (6:03) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Young Explorers - Giraffes and Rhinoceroses (10:46) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - San Diego Zoo - Rhinoceros - READ and LISTEN
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Rhinoceros Capture (4:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Rhinoceros Release (2:16) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Can Poop Help Save Rhinos from Poachers? (3:03) - VIEW 
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth (7:53) - VIEW 
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino (13:20) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Extinction: The Facts The Last Two White Rhinos (2:16) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Rhinoceros (56:29) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 Professional Development - NHPBS LearningMedia - Exponential Models: M&Ms and Rhinos (37:59) -VIEW AND DO

Pressroom Contact

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