Oceans - June 8
Catch a Wave Learning
Monday, June 8, 2026
Today is Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day, World Oceans Day, Ghostbusters Day, and Best Friends Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Today's Theme: Oceans
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1776 – Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois - Rivières.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution.
ON THIS DATE
- 1789 - James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution.
- 1861 - Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law.
- 1949 - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1953 - The Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1992 - The first World Oceans Day is celebrated.
- 1625 - Italian mathematician and astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini
- 1810 - German composer Robert Schumann
- 1858 - English mathematician Charlotte Scott
- 1867 - Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1868 - Architect Robert Robinson Taylor
- 1925 - First Lady Barbara Bush
- 1927 - Actor Jerry Stiller
- 1933 - Comedian Joan Rivers
- 1947 - Author Sara Paretsky
- 1955 - English computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee
- Robert Schumann - Traumerei - LISTEN
Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes - LISTEN Diana Krall - How Deep is the Ocean - LISTEN The Beatles - Yellow Submarine - LISTEN - David Bowie - 1984 - LISTEN
- Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - LISTEN
- Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters - LISTEN
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Ocean
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - All Around the Ocean Song (1:35) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Love the Ocean Song (3:21) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ocean Emotion (1:59) - VIEW
- Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Ocean Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 1-3 - NHPBS Learning Media - Wild Kratts - Ocean Clips - VIEW
- Grades 5-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Johnathan Bird's Blue World Collection - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - NatureWorks - Marine Communities (14:46) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Ocean Engineer (2:42) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Is It OK to Pee in the Ocean? (2:19) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - EONS - How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean (10:05) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - How Ocean Currents Work and How We Are Breaking Them (12:38) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Reef Rescue (53:21) - VIEW
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