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Daruma Dolls for the New School Year
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Darumas-for-the-New-School-Year-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/22/2005 Daruma Dolls Transcript One of the traditional, good luck charms in Japan is the Daruma Doll, the ancient roly poly doll that can’t be knocked over, no matter how far it is pushed. The idea of this original tumbler doll is said to […]
Jump Rope
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jump-Rope.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/25/2007 Jump Rope Transcript Starting in second or third grade and all the way into middle school, we girls used to play jump rope at recess. Two of us would warm the rope up by swinging it, while the rest of us got into […]
“We All Fall Down”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/We-All-Fall-Down.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/18/2006 “We All Fall Down” Transcript Have you ever stopped to consider how many times you fell down as a child? When you’re a kid, you seem to fall down from, or out of, or off of, just about everything: bikes, trees, swing sets, […]
Curing “Nature Deficit Disorder”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Curing-Nature-Deficit-Disorder.mp3 Author Linda Stanley Air Date 8/24/2006 Curing “Nature Deficit Disorder” Transcript In today’s fast-paced, hyper-technical world, many children suffer from what Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods , calls “nature deficit disorder.” Their exposure to nature is minimal and often comes from a visit to the neighborhood park […]
Those Tenacious Cooties
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Those-Tenacious-Cooties.mp3 Author Lisa Dusenberry Air Date 8/1/2006 Those Tenacious Cooties Transcript “Circle, circle, dot, dot, now you have a cootie shot!” Using your index finger, draw a circle on your arm two times and poke the center twice. You may not know it, but you have just been immunized from […]
Play Ball!
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Play-Ball-Some-Basic-Baseball-Books-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/5/2006 Play Ball! Transcript If it’s raining and the game’s called, you can still keep the youngest baseball players you know dreaming of their next at-bat with some of the many new books that have been appearing about the great American (and increasingly, the […]
The Children’s Playgrounds of Noguchi
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-childrens-Playground-of-Isamu-Noguchi.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/29/2006 The Children’s Playgrounds of Noguchi Transcript During his long life, from 1904-1988, the world-renowned artist Isamu Noguchi made paintings and later sculptures of wood, paper, bronze and stone. And for more than 30 years he created innovative play spaces for children, only one […]
Looking for the Roots of Tag
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Looking-for-the-Roots-of-Tag.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/27/2006 Looking for the Roots of Tag Transcript One of the most familiar, if not the oldest, of children’s games is “Tag” or one of its many variations, played on school yards, and in parks, backyards, and free spaces all over the world. It’s […]
Richard Louv, The Last Child in the Woods
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Richard-Louv’s-The-Last-Child-in-the-Woods.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/9/2006 Richard Louv, The Last Child in the Woods Transcript Remember when our parents used to tell us to run outside to play, and if we asked why (especially if our favorite television program was on), they told us that fresh air was good […]
Kids on the Move
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Going-Places.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2006 Kids on the Move Transcript Today we’re celebrating the day the clamp-on roller skate was patented — a truly important invention in the history of childhood because it gave kids another exhilarating way to sail through their young lives. Children have been finding […]