The Field of Bollians
It’s Tell A Story Day today, and to celebrate, here’s Barry Stewart Mann from Atlanta, who practices this most ancient of art forms everyday.
Your First Kiss Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remember-Your-First-Kiss-Day.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 4/26/2000 Your First Kiss Day Transcript Today is Remember Your First Kiss Day. Now, everybody knows that talking about your first kiss is not talking about the first time you got a kiss. Because 99 times out of a hundred anybody’s first kiss […]
Palmer Cox’s Birthday
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Palmer-Cox.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/25/2000 Palmer Cox’s Birthday Transcript This week we celebrate the birthday of Palmer Cox, one of the most popular American writers for children in the last two decades of the 19th century. Do you know what he is famous for? His elfin creatures once […]
Kindergarten Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kindergarten-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/21/2000 Kindergarten Day Transcript Today is Kindergarten Day, which is celebrated in honor of Friedrich Froebel who was born today in 1782 and who started the first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837. The school was built upon a series of innovative principles that used […]
Joking Around on the Internet
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Joking-Around-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 4/20/2000 Joking Around Transcript It’s National Humor Month, and Koren Stembridge has been joking around the Internet, looking for funny sites for kids. We’ve suffered through Winter’s blustery tantrums, we’ve survived the sleepy evenings that arrive at 4:00 in the afternoon, limiting our energy […]
Roman Vishniac
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Roman-Vishniac.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/19/2000 Roman Vishniac Transcript Perhaps it is the first warm day of spring, and the boys in the picture have pulled off their shirts and rolled up their trousers, forming themselves in a circle to to play a ball game–it could be dodge ball. […]
Manners for Boys
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Manners-II.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/18/2000 Manners for Boys Transcript Boys and manners? It’s not as oxymoronic as it sounds, as Rita Smith informs us in her Rediscovery for today. It has always been important to pass on correct manners from one generation to the next. One of the […]
National Bubblegum Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Bubblegum-Week.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 4/17/2000 National Bubblegum Week Transcript This is National Bubblegum Week, and I have to admit bubblegum has gotten me into some of the deepest trouble I’ve ever been in in my life, and then, it has gotten me out. Specifically, I am talking […]
Poetry Collections
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poetry-Collections.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/14/2000 Poetry Collections Transcript When kids get to pick out the poetry that they like, as you can imagine, they’ll usually go for something funny or gross or outrageous–something that pushes the envelope and makes us squeamish adults squirm a little in our chairs. […]