Chocolate and Bread - July 7

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Today is Tell the Truth Day, Global Forgiveness Day, Macaroni Day, Father & Daughter Take a Walk Day, Build a Scarecrow Day, Strawberry Sundae Day, and World Chocolate Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Chocolate and Bread
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ON THIS DATE

• 1863 - The U.S. begins its first military draft.
• 1898 - President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory.
• 1928 - The  Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri sells the first sliced bread. 
• 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• 1981 - President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1860 - Composer Gustav Mahler
• 1899 - Director and producer George Cukor
• 1906 - Baseball player Satchel Paige
• 1907 - Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein
• 1933 - Historian and author David McCullough
• 1940 - English musician Ringo Starr

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy - LISTEN
• Gustav Mahler - Piano Quartet in A Minor - LISTEN
• Bread - It Don't Matter To Me - LISTEN
  

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Bryce Canyon, Utah - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Daniel Tiger - Picking an Ice Cream Flavor  - VIEW

THEME: CHOCOLATE

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Sesame Street: Professor Cookie Subtracts (3:46) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Chocolate Factory (8:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grade 3 - PBS Learningm\Media - Melty Chocolate - READ, VIEW, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Reactions - Gum + Chocolate = ??? (1:49) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Earth and Sky Podcast - Lyndel Meinhardt Is Searching for Heartier Chocolate in the Rainforest (7:59) - LISTEN
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Is Fear of Ebola Driving Up the Price of Chocolate? (7:14) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Serving Up Science - 100% Dark Chocolate: Bitter or Best Ever? (7:30) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Is White Chocolate Actually Chocolate? (2:56) - VIEW

THEME: BREAD

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia -Let's Share a Story: "Fry Bread" (12:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Imagination Moment: Baking Banana Bread (2:21) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Snack Hacks - Bunny Bread (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - Making Bread (4:00) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Reading Rainbow - Bread is For Eating (28:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Secrets of Sourdough (8:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sourdough Bread is a Microbial Mystery (6:23) - VIEW

WATCH

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POETRY IN AMERICA - July in Washington
Sunday, 7/07 from 6:30-7 pm NHPBS
Against the backdrop of 1964 Washington D.C., Robert Lowell wrote this timeless reflection on the contradictions between American idealism and American policy. Journalists Andrea Mitchell and Justin Worland, political commentators David Axelrod and Bill Kristol, scholar Sir Jonathan Bate, and psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison join host Elisa New. POETRY IN AMERICA Streaming Video

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