Ice Cream and Gwendolyn Brooks - June 7

We Real Cool, We All Scream for Ice Cream

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day, National Animal Rights Day, National Child's Day, VCR Day, and Daniel Boone Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Ice Cream and Gwendolyn Brooks

AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress.

ON THIS DATE

1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes that the Continental Congress draft a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1892 - Homer Plessy is arrested after refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train.
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
1942 - The Battle of Midway ends.
1965 -The Supreme Court rules in Griswold v. Connecticut that states cannot criminalize the use of contraception by married couples.
2003 - New Hampshire Episcopalians elect an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.

BIRTHDAYS

1848 - French painter Paul Gauguin
1917 - Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
1917 - Singer and actor Dean Martin
1940 - Welsh singer Tom Jones
1952 - Actor Liam Neeson
1958 - Singer-songwriter Prince
1959 - Former Vice President Mike Pence
1978 - Actor and comedian Bill Hader

SONGS OF THE DAY

Dean Martin - That's Amore - LISTEN
Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual - LISTEN
Prince - Let's Go Crazy - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY

Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool

OCEAN/RIVER MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Camp TV - From an Otter Point of View - VIEW

THEME: Ice Cream

Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Ice Cream Parlour Fieldtrip (7:15) - VIEW and DO
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernie's Ice Cream Cone (3:05) - VIEW
Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Homemade Ice Cream (12:59) - VIEW and DO
Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Making Non-Dairy Ice Cream (10:52) - VIEW and DO
Grades PreK-3 - Arthur - An Ice Cream Experiment (1:46) - VIEW
Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Making Ice Cream (1:06) - VIEW and DO
Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Martha Speaks - Operation Ice Cream Activity - DO
Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - DIY Science Time - Thermal Energy (23:39) - VIEW
Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Delishtory - We All Scream for Ice Cream (5:30) - VIEW

THEME: Gwendolyn Brooks

Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - We Real Cool (5:46) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Gwendolyn Brooks: The Creative Person (29:09) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Honoring Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (6:52) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Gwendolyn Brooks: Still Real Cool at 100 (5:16) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - National Academy of American Poets -Teach This Poem: “the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks - READ and DO
Grades 7-12 - National Academy of American Poets -Teach This Poem: “To Prisoners” by Gwendolyn Brooks - READ and DO
Grades 9-12 - National Council of Teachers of English - Read Write Think - Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" Lesson Plan - READ and DO

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