Nursery Rhymes and Rhinos - May 1

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

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
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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
  

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

NATURE - Season of the Osprey
Wednesday, 5/1 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Birds of prey exist in myriad shapes and sizes. Scores of eagles, hundreds of hawks and countless kites and falcons have all adapted form and behavior to fit diverse habitats. But in all the world, there is only one osprey. Following a single evolutionary path, it has conquered every continent save Antarctica. One bird, one design, unchanged. It is the only truly aquatic raptor. NATURE Season of the Osprey Streaming Video

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE - Together
Wednesday, 5/1 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Throughout history, humans' unique capacity for cooperation has set us apart. Ari Wallach explores the internal changes we enact that have the potential to impact those around us, our broader communities, and societies. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE Streaming Video

NOVA - Making of North America: Human
Wednesday, 5/1 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
From Ice Age to oil boom, discover the challenges faced and the wealth uncovered as humans take over the continent. How did we turn rocks into riches? And what catastrophic natural disasters could threaten the civilization we've built? NOVA Streaming Video

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Plague at the Golden Gate
Wednesday, 5/1 from 3-5 pm NH EXPLORE
Over 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic set off a nationwide wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco's Chinatown unleashed a similar crisis. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Plague At the Golden Gate Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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