Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Another-Planet.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 7/24/2007 Another Planet Transcript When my children were little, I was convinced that each stage was the most adorable yet and at each birthday I wanted to put bricks on their heads to stop them right there. Of course, they grew up anyway, and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Liking-Poems.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 7/12/2007 Liking Poetry Transcript Little ones’ preferences in food have nothing to do with “should.” Take popsicles and corn pops and full sugar baby-yo. Those, Cora likes. Or take spinach and scrambled eggs. Those, she doesn’t. And why or why not, who cares? Now […]
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-Can-Poetry.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/18/2007 Kids Can Press Poetry Transcript Over the past few years, a Canadian publishing house called Kids Can has brought out a series of books, each containing a single narrative poem. They’re all poems you will have heard of, if not at some point […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/AA-Milnes-Poetry.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/11/2007 A. A. Milne’s Poetry Transcript Some poetry goes with kids as naturally as peanut butter goes with jelly. I remember the special delight I used to take in the poems in A.A. Milne’s When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six because they just seemed […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Singing-Chauncer.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/4/2007 Singing Chaucer Transcript A few years ago, my writer-in-the-schools gig involved a middle school in a suburban neighborhood. My charges for that session were mostly kids who’d been bussed in from the poor side of town, whose teacher told me she hadn’t been […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mistletoe-and-Valentines-Day.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 2/14/2007 Mistletoe and Valentine’s Day Transcript Valentine’s Day this year brings back memories of our last holiday season, when my five-year-old granddaughter found out that if she went around the house holding a sprig of mistletoe over her head, she’d get kisses. Now since […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Camp-Crystal.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 1/3/2007 Camp Crystal Lake Transcript As soon as our daughter was big enough, which to us meant the summer she was 8, we sent her to Camp Crystal Lake. It’s only a 45 minute drive from where we were living then, and, because it’s […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lola-Haskins-Typewriters-and-Poems.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 5/23/2006 Top view thirties retro writers desk with typewriter on old wooden background table top. Of Typewriters and Poems Transcript When our daughter D’Arcy was little, we lived in a rented stone cottage in an English village. Every day while she was at school, […]
