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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 […]

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 […]

Games for the Car, the Cabin, the Tent

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Games-for-the-Car-the-Cabin-the-Tent.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/24/2005 Games for the Car, the Cabin, the Tent Transcript If you’re packing the car for vacation, you might want to include one of the many new books of games and puzzles to bounce along the interstate with your family, or to fill those […]

Marbles

We’re talking marbles, and I’ve been studying up on them again in a terrific little volume called The Klutz Book of Marbles.

Mancala: Playing an Ancient Game in the Present

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mancala-Playing-an-Ancient-Game-in-the-Present.mp3 Author Julie Sinn Air Date 2/18/2004 Mancala Transcript I’ve always looked for different games to play with my friend Angela’s daughter, Alex. When Alex was six years old, her favorite was Mancala, an ancient Egyptian counting game for two players. Unlike Hi Ho Cherri-o or Candyland, Mancala challenges players […]

The Egg Game

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Egg-Game.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 2/11/2003 The Egg Game Transcript We had a visit a few weeks ago from the Egg Man — no, not a poultryman or the character from the Beetles’ song, “I Am the Walrus,” but Erich Jonas, who’s invented something that he calls the Egg […]

The Frisbee

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Secrets-of-the-Frisbee.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/11/2002 The Frisbee Transcript Today, we celebrate the Frisbee, that sublime, colorful and somewhat mysterious flying disc. The ancient origins of the Frisbee are lost in the annals of history, though no doubt, it was a child who first discovered that flat wood chips […]

Grandparents Day

With National Grandparents' Day coming up this week, Rita Smith has a Rediscovery essay about grandparents of the past.

A Pretty Little Pocket Book

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Pretty-Little-Pocket-Book.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/19/2000 A Pretty Little Pocket Book Transcript On June 18, 1744, the following advertisement appeared in the London Penny Morning Post: [Published] According to [an] Act of Parliament: a Little Pretty Pocket Book, intended for the instruction and amusement of little Master Tommy and […]