Poetry
John Bunyan’s Poetry for Children
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. […]
Mother Goose
That rapped up version of the classic nursery rhyme is from a wonderful CD from Music for Little People called “Toddlers Sing”–something good to fill your house with during young people’s poetry week.
National Week of the Young Child
What you’re hearing is a child making his first poems–squealing with delight at the sound of his own voice, rhyming sounds, endlessly repeating what he decides will be his choruses, singing his couplets with his whole little body.
Wordsworth’s Child
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wordsworths-Child.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/7/2000 Wordsworth’s Child Transcript It’s the birthday today of William Wordsworth, who was born in 1770, and was one of the leading British Romantic poets. He wrote a poem called “The Rainbow” in 1802 that, in some respects, has shaped our thinking about childhood […]
First Remembered Poem
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Remembered-Poem.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 4/6/2000 The term Poetry – dictionary definition highlighted with yellow marker First Remembered Poem Transcript When I think of my first remembered poem, a warm spring day in 1952 marches through my memory so that I am once again in Mrs. Hopkins’ third […]
Poetry Sites
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 […]
Carl Sandburg
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Carl-Sandburg.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/6/2000 Carl Sandburg Transcript It’s Carl Sandburg’s birthday today. He was born on a corn-husk-filled mattress in 1878 in the prairie town of Galesburg, Illinois, to Swedish immigrant parents. “I don’t know who my ancestors were,” he once joked, “but we’ve been descending for […]
For the New Babies of the Millennium
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/For-the-New-Babies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/3/2000 Happy New Year Typography with Fireworks in Night Sky For the New Babies of the Millennium Transcript In Japan, during the first days of the new year, the Kakizome festival takes place; it’s is dedicated to putting the first marks on paper for […]
First Snow, Magic Snow
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Snow-Magic-Snow.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/22/1999 First Snow, Magic Snow Transcript It’s the first day of winter today, the time of the Winter Solstice, the ancient days of Yule, the darkest night of the year. It’s also the perfect time for the first snow to fall. In Russian villages, […]
Robert Louis Stevenson
Today, Fiona Barnes discusses Robert Stevenson's poetry for children.