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Arbor Day

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Arbor-Day.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 4/28/2000 Arbor Day Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet. I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the Earth’s sweet flowing breast: A tree that looks at God all day, […]

Joking Around on the Internet

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Joking-Around-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 4/20/2000 Joking Around Transcript It’s National Humor Month, and Koren Stembridge has been joking around the Internet, looking for funny sites for kids. We’ve suffered through Winter’s blustery tantrums, we’ve survived the sleepy evenings that arrive at 4:00 in the afternoon, limiting our energy […]

Poetry Sites

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poetry-Sites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 4/3/2000 Poetry Sites Transcript Koren Stembridge is on the Internet for us today, with some sites to begin National Poetry Moth. I discovered that April was National Poetry Month while helping a high school student locate the text of a particular poem on the […]

Youth Art Internet Style

Here's Koren Stembridge with information about Internet resources for Youth Art Month.

Oz on the Internet

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Oz-on-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 3/23/2000 Oz on the Internet Transcript What you might not know is that it all started, 100 years ago, with a book. Penned by author Frank Baum, and published in 1900–The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was to become one of the best selling children’s […]

Things Irish

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Things-Irish.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 3/17/2000 Things Irish Transcript It started out as a reference question for eight-year-old Patrick, who is one of my favorite library patrons. He was working on his very first school research project–well he is, after all, in 3rd grade! Patrick’s question, to be precise, […]

Black History Month Websites

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Black-History-Websites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/31/2000 Black History Month Websites Transcript Koren Stembridge is on the internet for us, with some information about Black History Month, which begins tomorrow. February is Black History Month, the perfect time to log on to the web with your child to visit the […]

Space Sites

Here's Koren Stembridge with information about educational websites about space.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Martin-Luther-King-Jr.-Day.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/15/2000 Martin Luther King, Jr. Transcript This coming Monday is our nationally designated holiday celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. Hopefully, over the next few days you will read or hear King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Those […]

Anti-Smoking Sites

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anti-Smoking-Websites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/11/2000 Anti-Smoking Sites Transcript On January 11, 1964 Surgeon General Luther Terry released the first report on the harmful effects of cigarette smoking. Thirty-six years later, here are some of the basic facts: First–80% of all smokers become addicted to cigarettes before they turn […]