For some time we have been adding days, weeks, or months of celebration and remembrance to our national calendar, some of them amusing or frivolous, others earnest and important, others profoundly serious. Truly, as you’ll see from these stories, we do need those cultural moments to celebrate and to contemplate.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/For-Girls-Rights-Week-girlsincorg.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 5/15/2002 Girls Rights Week Transcript There’s a web site out there that every girl who’s listening should know about: www.girlsinc.org. This is the home on the internet of Girls Incorporated, a non-profit organization that began in the 1860s to help girls […]
That’s Los Lobos, from their delightful CD for young people called “Papa’s Dream.” And, speaking as a mother, that’s the way that I’d like to wake up on Mother’s Day morning – with a serenade!
Today, Shelley Fraser Mickle is shedding a whole new light on National Pet Week.
It’s National Teacher Day today, and in honor of those dedicated educators who inspire our children and have deeply influenced each of us, Koren Stembridge is remembering the teacher who really made a difference in her life.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cartoonists-Day-More-Little-Lit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/3/2002 Cartoonist’s Day Transcript While you’re spreading the newspaper this Sunday to finally catch up a little on your painting around the house, and you catch a glimpse of the comics underneath that gallon of pistachio green paint, remember that it’s Cartoonist’s Day, in […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Autism-Awareness-Month-Titos-Dreams.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 4/30/2002 Tito’s Dreams Autism Awareness Month Transcript Anyone who has met children with autism wonders how they experience life. Because autism affects children’s ability to communicate and interact socially, they cannot always easily explain how they see the world or […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Child-as-Poet-Mattie-Stepanek.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/12/2002 The Child as Poet: Mattie Stepanek Transcript It’s National Poetry Month, and because of the events of September 11th, we have turned to poetry as a way to give form and shape and language to those experiences that have stunned and overwhelmed our […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Autism-Awareness-Month-Laying-Seige-to-Nirvanna.mp3 Author John Murchek (recorded by John Cech) Air Date 4/10/2002 Laying Siege to Nirvana Transcript April is National Autism Awareness Month, an appropriate time to reflect on the story of Jessy Park as told by her mother, Clara Claiborne Park, in her two books, The Siege and Exiting Nirvana: […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/When-Poems-Become-Novels.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/5/2002 Novel Poems Transcript Several years ago, if you handed a ten year old child a seven hundred page novel and asked him or her to read it – one would likely have met with an expression of sorrow and woe. But with the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/April-Fools.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/1/2002 April Fools – Holy Humor Month Transcript Today is a very important day for children all over the United States and Europe. For today is April Fools Day – so father’s and mother’s beware; that next spoon of sugar just might be salt. […]