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/Mothers-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/11/2001 Mother’s Day Transcript It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday. The holiday began in 1907 in Philadelphia, as a way to remember a mother who had passed away, and it had become, by Presidential decree in 1914, an occasion to honor all mothers. Three recent […]
Author John Cech Air Date 4/26/2001 Doing the Numbers: Some Books About Math Transcript It’s Mathematics Education Month, and numbers are in the air. For those younger children, who are just beginning to wrap their minds around the concept of larger number groups and the differences between numbers on paper and numbers in reality, you […]
Author John Cech Air Date 4/23/2001 Astronomy Week Transcript Have you seen what’s been going on in the sky lately? Well, it’s actually been happening for probably tens of millions of years, but we’ve only been able to see it for the past few centuries, and, really, since 1990 when the Hubble Space Telescope was […]
You’re hearing Ruthie, who’s eight, reciting part of the poem, “Where a Cloud Sleeps” from a wonderful CD called “Re-Bop Read Aloud / For Kids, By Kids” from ReBop Records in Marshfield, Vermont.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Passover.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/6/2001 Books for Passover Transcript That’s Sarah Jessica Parker playing a roving reporter, and a young friend with the right answer to the all-important question that’s asked during the Passover Seder, from Shalom Sesame’s Passover video. Along with nearly a dozen other videos available […]
Shelley Fraser Mickle has some thoughts for us about this week’s celebration of that ancient moral and ethical principle – the Golden Rule.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Be-Kind-to-Animals-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/4/2001 Be Kind to Animals Month Transcript The virtue of kindness was an important one at the turn of the 19th century and the subject of kindness to animals occurred frequently in children’s books. “It is almost inconceivable,” one critic notes, “that so many […]
National Goof Off Day is coming up at the end of next week, and according to Shelley Fraser Mickle, you don’t want to miss it. In fact, she’s getting an early start.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Womens-History-Sites.mp3 Author Heather Tomasello Air Date 3/14/2005 Women’s History Sites Transcript March is Women’s History Month, an especially appropriate time for you and your children to visit several websites that explore the dynamic roles that women have played in the past and continue to play in contemporary American society. The […]
