Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Electronic-Toys.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/15/2004 Electronic Toys Transcript Two and a half years ago, when our son J.J. was about 5 months old a well-meaning friend brought us an electronic “Kick and Play” as a gift. We loaded in the batteries, and placed our sweet son underneath the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spy-Alley.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 8/7/2003 Spy Alley Transcript By this point in the summer, the children in your household are probably ready for some intrigue, deception, and suspense — the kind provided by daring, fictional spies and crackers of mysteries like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hopscotch.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2002 Hopscotch Transcript Imagine yourself a Roman Legionaire, dressed in full battle gear, as part of your training, having to hop up and down a 100-foot long line of squares that have been scratched into the ground. That’s one of the possible origins of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-First-Crossword-Puzzles.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/17/2002 Kids’ First Crossword Puzzles Transcript On April 10, 1924, Simon and Schuster published the first crossword puzzle book. A dollar thirty-five bought all the fun and challenge of 50 puzzles, and to top it off, the book came with a free pencil. Within […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-and-Jump-Rope.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/20/2002 Spring and Jump Rope Transcript Ah, let the games begin. In spring festivals in ancient Greece and Rome, young people would jump over vines, not only to show their physical prowess, but to predict how high that year’s crops would grow. We don’t […]
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thanksgiving-Games-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 11/22/2001 Thanksgiving Games Transcript As a child, Thanksgiving was the one day in the year when my entire family would play games together. On other holidays, we were together, but with a family as large as mine, – eight children two parents – and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-and-Yoga.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/23/2001 Kids and Yoga Transcript Have you ever watched a baby, once he’s learned to sit up, how he sits with beautiful posture, keeping his back perfectly perpendicular to the floor, and his legs perfectly flat on the floor, and then how he effortlessly […]
Author John Cech Air Date 6/18/2001 Playing Smart — All Summer Transcript Back in the good old days, a few decades ago, when school let out for the year, kids had a whole long summer stretched ahead of them, like a ribbon of blue highway, with some stops along the way for a family vacation […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Raggedy-Ann.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/18/2001 Raggedy Ann and Andy Turn 85 Transcript It’s the 85th birthday this year of one of the most durable dolls in toy history, Raggedy Ann, and in Arcola Illinois, the birthplace of the dolls creator, John Barton — or Johnny — Gruelle, the […]