Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Penmanship.mp3 Author Shelley Mickle Fraser Air Date 3/16/2000 Women holding a pens writing a notebook. Recording concept Penmanship Transcript Penmanship is more than learning how to put words on paper. For a grade school child, moving from printing to cursive is like a teenager getting his driver’s license. Today, children […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Leonard-Weisgard.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/15/2000 Leonard Weisgard Transcript Leonard Weisgard died this past January, at the age of 83. He was one of the central figures in modern American children’s books, a gifted, prolific artist of dozens and dozens of picture books. He won the Caldecott award in […]
Last November, we heard a portion of a 1981 interview with Princess Redwing, which told about the first Thanksgiving from the Native American point of view. In this excerpt, the late Princess Redwing, who passed away a few years after this interview, explains about the first Thanksgiving of the year for the Native Americans of the northeast.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johnny-Appleseed.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/13/2000 Johnny Appleseed Day Transcript It’s Johnny Appleseed Day today, marking the death, in 1843, of one of our nation’s most intriguing personages. He was born John Chapman, in 1775 in Leominster, Massachusetts, the son of a Minuteman, Nathaniel Chapman, who could well have […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wanda-Gag.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/10/2000 Wanda Gag Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Lost and Found Essay. When Wanda Gag, who was born March 11, 1893, was a young girl, a stranger, strolling down the residential street she lived on in New Ulm, Minnesota, saw her swinging on […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barbies-Debut.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/9/2000 Barbie’s Debut Transcript When toymakers talk about their hopes for success, the term they use to describe great, continuing sales is “legs”–as in Barbie’s. The Barbie doll, which debuted 41 years ago today, is one of those fabled toys that never seems to […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Working-Womens-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/8/2000 Working Women’s Day Transcript It’s International Women’s Day, a holiday in many countries around the world, as it should be in ours, where the events took place, in 1857, that over a century later lead, in 1977, to Unesco’s naming this day in […]
You’re hearing a little from one of the most recorded pieces of modern classical music, Ravel’s “Bolero”–though the French composer, who was born today in 1875, might be a little surprised to hear it played on a toy piano.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Autograph-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/6/2000 Autograph Books Transcript This is National Autograph Collecting Week, and as we know the hunting of celebrity autographs–on every conceivable surface from baseballs to the backs of hands has never been more frenzied. Back in the late 1800s, one of the fads among […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walter-Dean-Meyers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/29/2000 Walter Dean Myers Transcript In our continuing programs in celebration of Black History Month, a writer for children and young adults who must be mentioned is Walter Dean Myers. Among his many distincitons, he’s a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award […]