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.
- Maurice Sendak’s Birthday
June 12, 2000
That’s Angela Coin, belting out part of the familiar title song for the 1981 Broadway version of Maurice Sendak’s “Really Rosie,” set to Carole King’s music. Read more "Maurice Sendak’s Birthday" - Anne Frank
June 9, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anne-Frank.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 6/9/2000 Anne Frank Transcript Anne Frank’s diary was an assignment in my 8th grade English class. Each day we would discuss her ... - Ice Cream
June 8, 2000
Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about that most summery of inventions: ice cream. Read more "Ice Cream" - Summer Camp 100 Years Ago
June 7, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Years-Ago-in-St-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/7/2000 Summer Camp 100 Years Ago Transcript “The hurried steps of the father descending the stairs were heard through the closed door. ... - The Dalai Lama’s Birthday
June 6, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dalai-Lamas-Birthday.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/6/2000 Dalai Lama Transcript Few cultures have depended so fervently and completely on the discovery of a miracle child as that of ... - Dinosaur
June 5, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dinosaur.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/5/2000 Dinosaur Transcript School’s almost over for the year, and when it is, it’ll be impossible for you to put off a ... - Aida
June 2, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Aida.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/2/2000 Aida Transcript Before Aida became a Disney musical on Broadway this spring, it was, of course, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi; ... - Muse Magazine
June 1, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Muse-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/1/2000 Muse Magazine Transcript Muse magazine is one of the real treasures to be found for children at your local newstand, where ... - The Sun and the Moon
May 31, 2000
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 ... - Spelling
May 30, 2000
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 ... - Internet Travel Sites
May 29, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Koren-Stembridge-on-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 5/29/2000 Internet Travel Sites Transcript If you need some ideas for planning a great family vacation this year, you might try some ... - Dionne Quintuplets
May 26, 2000
Those are the eight-year-old Dionne Quintuplets, singing for a Canadian war bond drive in 1942. Read more "Dionne Quintuplets" - Peace Games
May 25, 2000
We’re speaking today with Eric Dawson, who is the executive director of Peace Games, an innovative program that educates young people in schools in Boston and Cambridge, and soon throughout the country, about ways to seek peaceful resolutions to the ... - Ida B. Wells
May 24, 2000
Here’s Jim Haskins with a review of Judith and Dennis Fradin’s Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Read more "Ida B. Wells" - St. Nicholas in May
May 23, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Saint-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/23/2000 St. Nicholas in May Transcript St. Nicholas was a popular American juvenile periodical that was issued monthly from November 1873 through ... - Barishnikov’s Favorites
May 19, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barishnikovs-Favorites.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/19/2000 Barishnikov’s Favorites Transcript There’s a series of 13 animated films for children called “Stories from My Childhood,” that is available on ... - Enough is Enough
May 18, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Enough-is-Enough.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 5/18/2000 Enough is Enough Transcript For the record, there were no computers when I was in elementary or middle school. In high ... - Brown vs. Board of Education
May 17, 2000
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 ... - Biography Day
May 16, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Biography-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/16/2000 Biography Day Transcript In celebration of Biography Day, I am going to read from one of the first biographies of George ... - Frank L. Baum
May 15, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/L-Frank-Baum.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2000 Frank L. Baum Transcript It’s the real wizard of Oz’s birthday today. Born in 1856, L. Frank Baum was the frail ...