Merry-Go-Rounds, Maxfield Parrish, and Puerto Rico - July 25
Round and Round and Up and Down Learning
Friday, July 25, 2025
Today is Merry-Go-Round Day, National Hot Fudge Sundae Day, Hire A Veteran Day, National Wine and Cheese Day, World Drowning Prevention Day, and System Administrator Appreciation 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: Merry-Go-Rounds, Maxfield Parrish, and Puerto Rico
ON THIS DATE
- 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
- 1965 - Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, shocking his fans.
- 1975 - 5-6-7-8 - "A Chorus Line" opens on Broadway.
- 1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, is born in England.
- 1750 - Revolutionary War general and first Secretary of War Henry Knox
- 1870 - Artist and NH resident Maxfield Parrish
- Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game - LISTEN
- The Hollies - On a Carousel - LISTEN
- Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel - LISTEN
NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
National Park of American Samoa - GO
ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Martha Speaks Operation Ice Cream Game - PLAY
- Grades PreK-2- Pinkalicious & Peterrific - The Zebra Merry Go Round! - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - Teaching Ideas for Langston Hughes' Poem "Merry Go Round" - VIEW and DO
THEME: MAXFIELD PARRISH
- Grades 4-12 - National Museum of American Illustration - READ and VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Shakespeare Uncovered - Twelfth Night (2:44) - VIEW
THEME: PUERTO RICO
- Grades PreK-2 - Alma's Way - Alma Goes to Puerto Rico (45:15) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciGirls - Dr. Amelia Merced - Biologist in Puerto Rico (In Spanish) (3:38) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Puerto Rico's Bomba, A Dance of The African Diaspora (6:33) -VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Craft in America - Mosaic Artist Rebuilds His Community in Puerto Rico (4:42) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Island Next Door: Puerto Rico and Connecticut After Hurricane Maria (26:48) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Culture Quest - Puerto Rico (27:59) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Blackout in Puerto Rico (54:47) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Global Perspectives - Luis Martinez-Fernadez - History of Cuba and Puerto Rico (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Migrant Kitchen - Puerto Rico: Food Sovereignty (26:47) - VIEW
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