Teen Read Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/16/2000 Teen Read Week Transcript It’s Teen Read Week, and one book that I’d urge you to somehow get into the hands of the teenagers in your life is The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey. He’s the son of Stephen […]
Family History Month
Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 10/12/2000 Family History Month Transcript Shelley Fraser Mickle has a history lesson for us in her Remembering for today. Sooner or later it hits every kid– usually around October which is Family History Month, a fact that few people know but that every grade school teacher in the universe […]
Communicate with Your Kids Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Communicate-with-kids.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 10/5/2000 Communicate With Your Kids Transcript Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle with this week’s remembering — about that most basic activity between parents and their children- communication. This is National Communicate With Your Kids Month, which is probably 99 percent of what parenting is […]
Sloppy Peter and His Shocking Manners
You’re hearing the English group The Tiger Lillies with part of Fidgety Phil, from their Junk Opera that they based on Heinrich Hoffmann’s hilariously awful Struwwelpeter or Shock-headed Peter.
Dogs
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dogs.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/27/2000 Dogs Transcript Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle, remembering for us. This is National Dog Week, which means we ought to look around and thank every dog we see for being a dog. Because what’s so wonderful about these animals is that sooner or […]
Banned Book Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Banned-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/25/2000 Banned Book Week Transcript The American Library Association has designated September 23 through the 30th as Banned Book Week. That practice, as Rita Smith reminds us, has been with us for quite awhile. Pressure to remove certain books for children from library shelves […]
Good Manners Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Good-Manners-Month.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/13/2000 Good Manners Month Transcript September is Children’s Good Manners Month, and Rita Smith has a most polite rediscovery for us: September is Children’s Good Manners Month. I suppose that to children it seems like every month is Good Manners Month, considering how they […]
ODC
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/ODC.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/24/2000 ODC Transcript This is “Recess!” and this is John Cech. We’re talking about some of the things that are happening in the world of children’s culture. Brief sound clip It’s American Dance Week, and we attended a performance for young people by the […]