Movies, Black Bears and Prairies - June 6

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Today is the Belmont Stakes, D-Day, National Drive-In Movie Day, National Black Bear Day, National Higher Education Day, National Yo-Yo Day, National Pineapple Day, National Prairie Day, and Russian Language Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poems of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Movies

 AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1755 – Birthday of soldier and spy Nathan Hale
1756 – Birthday of painter John Trumbull

ON THIS DATE

• 1844 - The YMCA is founded in London.
• 1889 - The Great Seattle Fire destroys downtown Seattle.
• 1933 - The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
• 1944 - The D-Day invasion of Normandy begins when Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France.
• 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.  

BIRTHDAYS

• 1755 - Revolutionary War soldier and spy Nathan Hale
• 1756 - Painter and architect John Trumbull
• 1799 - Russian author and poet Alexander Pushkin
• 1925 - Poet and NH resident Maxine Kumin
• 1944 - Sprinter Tommie Smith
• 1956 - Swedish tennis player Björn Borg

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Village People - YMCA - LISTEN
• The Drifters - Saturday Night at the Movies - LISTEN
• The Kinks - Groovy Movies - LISTEN

POEMS OF THE DAY 

• Alexander Pushkin - Echo 
• Maxine Kumin - Requiem on I-89

OCEAN/RIVER MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Kratts Creatures - The Tiger Shark - VIEW

THEME: Movies

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover at the Movies (1:43)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Movie and TV Show Parodies - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Learning Media -  Frontline - Generation Like - Promoting Movies (5:59) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Is This Really 3D? (5:02) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course: Artificial Intelligence - Make a Movie Recommendation System (14:33) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origins of Everything - How a Spy Changed Horror Movies (10:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origins of Everything - Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies? (6:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Lit - When the Book is Better than the Movie (5:28) - VIEW

THEME: Black Bears

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Bear (2:37) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - Goldilocks and The Three Bears (25:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Bears (5:25)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear Camping (1:20) - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear-ly Swimming  (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 -  NHPBS - NatureWorks - Black Bear - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Black Bears (26:45) - VIEW, READ and DO

THEME: PRAIRIES

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street  - Monsterpiece Theater - Little Prairie on the Prairie (2:31) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat  - The Prairie is Awesome  (2:34) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Speaking Prairie Chicken  (2:38) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Bison Roadblock (1:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6 - EEK! - What is a Prairie? - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Vegetation on the Prairie (3:54) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wetlands: A Prairie Slough (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Biodiversity on the Prairie (3:21) - VIEW

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