Pablo Picasso famously said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Perhaps that can be done by taking children to art museums, showing them great art, and, most importantly, giving children the space, the materials, and the encouragement to make their own art.
- The Remarkable Tale of Chicken Little
September 14, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicken-Little.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/14/2000 Chicken Little Transcript One hundred and sixty-six years ago this past weekend, a printer from Roxbury, Massachusetts, John Greene Chandler, ... - Good Manners Month
September 13, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Good-Manners-Month.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/13/2000 Good Manners Month Transcript September is Children’s Good Manners Month, and Rita Smith has a most polite rediscovery for us: September ... - Books for Boys
September 12, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Boys.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/12/2000 Books for Boys Transcript There has been a wave of books and public discussions in recent years about the importance of ... - BJ Pinchbeck
September 11, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/BJ-Pinchbeck.mp3 Author Lauren Bradway Air Date 9/11/2000 BJ Pinchbeck Transcript With the children back in school, and the assignments already piling up, one of the web sites ... - American High
September 6, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/American-High.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 9/6/2000 American High Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet, with a review of one of the latest reality-based shows – ... - Olympics
September 1, 2000
Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet with some online resources to help you prepare for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Read more "Olympics" - Maria Montessori
August 31, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maria-Montessori.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/31/2000 Maria Montessori Transcript It’s Maria Montessori’s birthday today. She was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy; and by the time ... - Alicia Nitecki
August 30, 2000
Today, noted scholar Alicia Nitecki tells us about her favorite book as a child. Read more "Alicia Nitecki" - Family Fun Month
August 29, 2000
Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle, still having fun. Read more "Family Fun Month" - Back to School Sounds
August 28, 2000
Here’s how we’re waking up at our house to start the new school year — with the Brazilian singer Nazare Pereira singing “Bonjour Pra Voce” — a good morning song that goes well with corn flakes or scrambled eggs — ... - Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts
August 25, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bernsteins-Young-Peoples-Concerts.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/25/2000 Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Transcript In 1958, the American composer and conductor, the late Leonard Bernstein, whose birthday it is today, ... - ODC
August 24, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/ODC.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/24/2000 ODC Transcript This is “Recess!” and this is John Cech. We’re talking about some of the things that are happening in ... - American Dance Week
August 23, 2000
Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle with a remembering that’s dancing. Read more "American Dance Week" - Movie Sites
August 18, 2000
Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet. Read more "Movie Sites" - Dragonflies the Baby Cries
August 17, 2000
That’s the Alloy Orchestra from Cambridge, Massachussetts, providing the soundtrack for a new movie, “Dragonflies the Baby Cries,” a short, around ten minute, nearly silent film by Jane Gilooly about children and their magical, secret lives. Read more "Dragonflies the ... - National Smile Week
August 16, 2000
Here’s a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for National Smile Week. Read more "National Smile Week" - Walter Crane
August 15, 2000
Today, Rita Smith’s recollection returns us to one of the most famous creators of children’s books in England in the late 19th Century – Walter Crane. Read more "Walter Crane" - Buster Brown
August 14, 2000
Here’s John Cech with some thoughts about the various media incarnations of Buster Brown. Read more "Buster Brown" - Washington Tour
August 11, 2000
Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet, with a trip you and your children can take this summer without leaving home. Read more "Washington Tour" - Kid Hoboes
August 10, 2000
That’s Woody Guthrie’s son, Arlo, singing his haunting “Hobo’s Lullaby” in honor of the National Hobo Convention, which takes place this week in Britt, Iowa. Read more "Kid Hoboes"