Tag: School
School Lunches – Back in the Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/School-Lunches-Back-in-the-Day-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/14/2006 School Lunches Transcript In the March 1877 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, the editor asked her young readers to write to her and describe “what you ordinarily take to school for your noon feeding.” She had noticed that one […]
School Lunch Week: Pizza
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-School-Lunch-Week-Pizza.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 10/12/2004 School Lunch Week: Pizza Transcript All over America, school lunches and pizza seem to go hand in hand. But few of us realize that this favorite of children and grown-ups alike has had a long and convoluted history down the millennia. Pizza as […]
Back to School with Unicorns
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Back-to-School-with-Unicorns.mp3 Author Alisson Clark Air Date 9/7/2004 Back to School with Unicorns Transcript As the summer draws to a close, the newspaper arrives at our house stuffed with advertisements for back-to-school supplies. Although it’s been years since I’ve needed any of them, the sight of all those crisp new folders, […]
Report Cards
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Report-Cards.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/2/2004 Report Cards Transcript It’s the end of the school year, and that means: report cards. Remember how just the sight of a stack of those neatly-folded, buff-colored cards, waiting on the corner of our teacher’s desk, could send shivers of expectation through the […]
The End of the Year
Summer vacation is right around the corner, but before it arrives, Shelley Fraser Mickle is remembering those end-of-the-year spectacles.
National School Success Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-School-Success-Month.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/12/2001 National School Success Month Transcript This is National School Success Month, which you would think should come in May when awards are handed out. Certainly that’s what success usually means – receiving awards and certificates for being the best at something. And […]
Dictionary and Internet Homework Sites
With school starting again, that means the homework and the Internet questions are back, too. Here's Koren Stembridge pulling down a few answers for us from cyberspace.
First Day of School
School begins in many parts of the country this week, and this has Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering her first day of first grade.
No Homework Day
A school day without homework - Shelley Fraser Mickle can remember just such a remarkable gift.
Last Day of School
Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for that yearly miracle - the last day of school.