Tomie dePaola - September 15
Noodling Around With Learning
Monday, September 15, 2025
Today is 8-Track Tape Day, Google.com Day, Day of Democracy, Make a Hat Day, Cheese Toast Day, Double Cheeseburger Day, Support Latino Business Day, National Linguine Day, and Online Learning Day.
- Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Resource of the Day: Latino Americans: Foreigners in Their Own Land - Episode 1
- Classical Music Month Resource of the Day: In the Key of Bach
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Tomie dePaola
ON THIS DATE
- 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
- 1935 - The Nuremberg Laws strips German Jews of their citizenship.
- 1963 - Four young Black girls are killed in a bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Supreme Court justice. American Experience - Sandra Day O'Connor - VIEW
- 1789 - Author James Fenimore Cooper
- 1857 - President William Howard Taft
- 1857 - American astronomer Anna Winlock
- 1890 - English author Agatha Christie
- 1906 - American songwriter Walter E. Rollins (Here Comes Pete Cottontail and Frosty the Snowman)
- 1907 - Actress Fay Wray
- 1928 - Saxophonist and bandleader Cannonball Adderley
- 1934 - Author and Illustrator Tomie dePaola
- 1945 - Opera singer Jessye Norman
- 1984 - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
- The Eagles - Witchy Woman - LISTEN
Donovan - Season of the Witch - LISTEN - Santana - Black Magic Woman - LISTEN
- Gene Autry - Frosty the Snowman - LISTEN
- Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - LISTEN
- Jessye Norman - Ave Maria - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-3 - Storyline - Strega Nona Read by Mary Steenburgen (12:05) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3- The Jim Henson Company - Telling Stories with Tomie - "Every Picture Tells a Story" (4:33) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3- The Jim Henson Company - Telling Stories with Tomie - "Scary" (3:55) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3- The Jim Henson Company - Telling Stories with Tomie - "Funny"(4:55) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - NHPBS Video - Great KCTA Read-a-thon - Tomie dePaola (9:55) - VIEW
- Grades K-1 - ReadWriteThink - Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing (Pancakes for Breakfast) - DO
- Grades: 4-12 - The Jim Henson Company - Telling Stories with Tomie - "Food as Storytelling" (2:49) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Authors - Tomie dePaola (29:33) - VIEW
- Grades 6-Adult - Reading Rockets - A Video Interview With Tomie dePaola - READ AND VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - Tomie DePaola Website - VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour - 'Strega Nona’ Author Tomie dePaola is Dead at Age 85 - READ
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