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/From-Afghanistan-to-Zimbabwe.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/7/2005 From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe Transcript It’s Geography Awareness Week, and already young people around the country are gearing up for the big National Geographic Bee in which students from fourth through eighth grades test their knowledge of the world’s geography each year. More […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Real-Time.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 10/20/2005 Real Time Transcript How important is it that children learn to “read the world”1 along with the words on a page? More than 35 years ago, Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator, introduced the teaching of critical literacy, a reading strategy that “promotes reflection, transformation, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Rush-Hour.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 10/18/2005 Teen Read Week Transcript “Get real.” How many times have you heard a sullen or sarcastic teenager utter these words? Well, the Young Adult Library Services Association is currently giving this popular teen phrase a more enthusiastic interpretation, making “Get REAL @ your […]
It’s National School Lunch Week, a good time to keep an eye out for some sea-faring vegetables, like Barry Stewart Mann’s Captain Cauliflower.
That’s one of the harrowing episodes from the 1951 educational film “Live and Learn” on a video called Mental Hygiene, Classroom Films 1945 – 1970.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lets-Hear-it-for-Bozo-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/5/2005 “Let’s Hear It For the Clown” Transcript It’s International Clown Week, and, in the U.S., one of our most famous clowns is Bozo — with his electric shock of red hair, his seven-acre shoes, his baggy blue jumpsuit with its pom-pom and a […]
This description of reconciliation comes from Kate DiCamillo’s novel The Tale of Despereaux, winner of the 2004 John Newbery Medal, but the sentiment is shared by all of those who participate in International Forgiveness Day, which is held each year on the first Sunday of August.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fireworks.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/4/2005 Fireworks Transcript It’s the Fourth of July, our national day of independence, and the holiday that’s most connected with fireworks — though we certainly aren’t limiting ourselves to just that day. We Americans will set off fireworks on almost any occasion, from birthdays […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Eat-Dessert-First-Month.mp3 Author Kachina Domenick and Chris Air Date 5/30/2005 selection of cakes Eat Dessert First Month Transcript Kachina: Imagine biting into a chocolate chip peanut butter cookie. But the peanut butter is unsweetened, and grainy, and oily, even after being baked. And the chocolate chips aren’t chocolate, they’re carob, a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bicycle-Works.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 5/27/2005 National Bike Month Transcript As you think back on your own childhood, what stands out as the symbol of freedom and independence? For many kids both past and present, it is the bicycle, with its ability to carry you away from home at […]