Exceptional storytellers have added a unique dimension to our programs. Month after month, Barry Stewart Mann sent us one of his beautifully crafted stories; and each month Shelley Fraser Mickle told one of her incomparable stories rooted in her Southern childhood. Along the way we also heard from Boston’s famed storyteller, the late Brother Blue, and from the Wampanoag’s Princess Red Wing, a direct descendant of King Philip, who met the Pilgrims and helped them through their first winter.
The story that you’re about to hear was developed by Kimberly Singleton’s third grade class at the Vesda Elementary School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, where Barry Stewart Mann was a drama artist in residence as part of a program called “Arts Connect.” Students used drama to explore the science curriculum.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spelling.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/30/2000 Spelling Transcript This is the month for the national spelling bee, a time when I hold in awe each kid who can spell. In fact, in my fourth grade spelling bee I had to sit down because I couldn’t spell awe, a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brown-vs-BOE.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/17/2000 Brown vs. BOE Transcript Today is the anniversary of the 1954 supreme court decision known as Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Generally, most people know that these words, Brown v. Education, are what led to the most startling […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Etiquette-Week.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/10/2000 Etiquette Week Transcript This is National Etiquette Week, and to a child, there is almost nothing more boring than learning etiquette. It can be dangerous, too. Quentin Crisp, a British author wrote that “nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Invisible-Ink.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/3/2000 Invisible Ink Transcript This is the anniversary of the invention of invisible ink. To a child who has learned to read and write, nothing is more exciting than receiving a note that seems to have no words on it at all except […]
It’s Tell A Story Day today, and to celebrate, here’s Barry Stewart Mann from Atlanta, who practices this most ancient of art forms everyday.
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/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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Penmanship.mp3 Author Shelley Mickle Fraser Air Date 3/16/2000 Women holding a pens writing a notebook. Recording concept Penmanship Transcript Penmanship is more than learning how to put words on paper. For a grade school child, moving from printing to cursive is like a teenager getting his driver’s license. Today, children […]
