Monday, June 10, 2024
Today is National Iced Tea Day, Herbs and Spices Day, and Ball Point Pen Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Rainbows and Maurice Sendak
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ON THIS DATE
- 1692 - Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft.
- 1801 - Tripoli declares war on the United States over a dispute over the safe passage of ships in the Mediterranean.
- 1898 - U.S. Marines invade Spanish-held Cuba In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay,
- 1940 - Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
- 1944 - 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
- 1964 - Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- 1967 - The Six-Day War ends when Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
- 1978 - Affirmed wins the Triple Crown.
- 2007 - The final episode of The Sopranos airs.
BIRTHDAYS
SONGS OF THE DAY
- Reading Rainbow Remixed - LISTEN
- Judy Garland - Somewhere Over the Rainbow - LISTEN
- Kermit the Frog - Rainbow Connection - LISTEN
- Willie Nelson - Rainbow Connection - LISTEN
- Judy Garland - Get Happy - LISTEN
- Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning - LISTEN
- Journey - Don't Stop Beleavin' - LISTEN
OCEAN/RIVER MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Science Trek - River Collection - VIEW
THEME: RAINBOWS
- Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Making Rainbows Media Gallery (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Tally Ho! A Rainbow (12:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Rainbow Gel (1:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Best Music Lesson Ever: What Makes “Over the Rainbow” Work? (6:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - It's Okay to Be Smart - This Is Not a Rainbow (3:17) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows Form (3:38) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows with NO COLOR Are Possible (8:20) - VIEW
THEME: MAURICE SENDAK
- PreK-K - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Where the Wild Things Are (26:36) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Newsmakers - The Mind of Maurice Sendak (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Wild Things of Author, Artist Maurice Sendak Unleashed (3:51) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Maurice Sendak on "Being A Kid" (5:02) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Remembering Maurice Sendak and His Inner Child (4:58) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - American Masters - About Maurice Sendak - READ
WATCH
INDEPENDENT LENS - Cured
Monday, 6/10 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video
INDEPENDENT LENS - Mama Bears
Monday, 6/10 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
Although they grew up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians, these moms are now willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to keep their kids safe-even if it challenges their belief systems and rips apart their worlds. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video