Birds in Art - April 8

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Today is Draw A Bird Day and National Empanada Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Birds in Art

ON THIS DATE

• 1513 -  Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain.
• 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
• 1913 - The 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
• 1952 - In an attempt to stop a steel strike, President Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills.
• 1975 - Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1886 - Playwright and author Margaret Ayer Barnes
• 1892 - Actor and producer Mary Pickford
• 1912 - Figure skater Sonja Henie
• 1918 - First Lady Betty Ford
• 1940 - Basketball player John Havlicek
• 1941 - English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood
• 1943 - Choreographer Michael Bennett

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Beatles - Blackbird- LISTEN
• Nelly Furtado -  I’m Like a Bird - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Emily Dickinson - A Bird Came Down the Walk

THEME:  BIRDS in ART

• Grades 1-5 - Yedraw - How to Draw a Bird (2:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-12 - Museum of American Bird Art - VIEW nd READ
• Grades 4-12 - Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art - VIEWand READ
• Grades 5-12- Audubon - How to Draw a Bird - READ and DO
• Grades 5-12 - National Gallery of Art - John James Audubon - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - Picturing America: John James Audubon (6:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - The Gray Heron (7:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Birding and the Photography of Elizabeth Boehm (27:07) - VIEW

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