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/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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Young-Peoples-Poetry-Week.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/13/2000 New Poetry Books Transcript Every household should have a nice, thick volume of poetry on its shelves, for reading aloud or pouring over silently, for inspiration or comfort, or for the sheer pleasure of hearing language beautifully crafted. One doesn’t need to explicate […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Bunyan.mp3 Author Rita Smith with reading by Hank Conner Air Date 4/12/2000 John Bunyan Transcript For Young People’s Poetry Week, Rita Smith brings us a poetic rediscovery. This week we are celebrating National Youth Poetry Week. Poetry has been used as a means of teaching and entertaining children for centuries. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poetry-Sites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 4/3/2000 Poetry Sites Transcript Koren Stembridge is on the Internet for us today, with some sites to begin National Poetry Moth. I discovered that April was National Poetry Month while helping a high school student locate the text of a particular poem on the […]
Here’s Koren Stembridge with information about Internet resources for Youth Art Month.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Things-Irish.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 3/17/2000 Things Irish Transcript It started out as a reference question for eight-year-old Patrick, who is one of my favorite library patrons. He was working on his very first school research project–well he is, after all, in 3rd grade! Patrick’s question, to be precise, […]
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.
