Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Twice-as-Many-Friends-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/27/2005 Twice as Many Friends Transcript In the global village, it’s becoming necessary for us all to learn several languages — and in the United States today, that second language may well be Spanish. For children, acquiring some fluency in another language isn’t the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Tale-of-Peter-Rabbit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/26/2005 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Transcript C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Narnia books, thought that there were three ways of writing for children. One of the better ways (though not the best, he thought) was to let your story “grow out of a [tale] […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jazz-for-Kids-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/23/2005 Jazz for Kids Transcript Some of the great jazz performers of the Thirties, Fourties, and Fifties featured musical numbers based on children’s songs as part of their recordings and regular concerts. There was and still is something totally delightful about hearing a consummate […]
That’s one of the harrowing episodes from the 1951 educational film “Live and Learn” on a video called Mental Hygiene, Classroom Films 1945 – 1970.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-for-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/19/2005 Who Moved My Cheese for Kids Transcript I’ve been thinking about the meaning of cheese today. Not the gouda and brie and swiss that may be in our refrigerators, but metaphoric cheese. Allegorical cheese. Life-lesson cheese. It all started when someone recently gave […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Reggae-for-Kids-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/16/2005 Reggae for Kids Transcript How would this be as a song to wake up with each day? Brief Sound Clip: That’s Freddie McGregor with the Roots Radics Children’s Chorus with part of their song, “Three Little Birds,”on a CD called Reggae for Kids (from Raz […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Back-to-School-with-They-Might-Be-Giants-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/29/2005 Back to School with They Might Be Giants Transcript With school starting again soon — and in some places having already begun — kids will be reciting and writing the alphabet in earnestness across the country. Humor me for a second and imagine […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bright-Spaces.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/26/2005 Bright Spaces Transcript Most of our children are usually able to play in protected spaces — somewhere in our homes, neighborhoods, and schools. But for young people who are living in homeless shelters, a place for play is often non-existent or make-shift at […]
That’s John McCutcheon with one of his tributes to the joys of summertime on his CD Summersongs from Rounder Records, another in McCutcheon’s CD cycle, The Four Seasons.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lets-Hear-it-for-Bozo-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/5/2005 “Let’s Hear It For the Clown” Transcript It’s International Clown Week, and, in the U.S., one of our most famous clowns is Bozo — with his electric shock of red hair, his seven-acre shoes, his baggy blue jumpsuit with its pom-pom and a […]