Tag: Shelley Fraser Mickle
Voices
Here's Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for us.
Boredom
Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about one of the by-products of summer for children: boredom.
Last Day of School
Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for that yearly miracle - the last day of school.
Pop Goes the Weasel Day
Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for Pop Goes the Weasel Day.
Ice Cream
Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about that most summery of inventions: ice cream.
Spelling
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spelling.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/30/2000 Spelling Transcript This is the month for the national spelling bee, a time when I hold in awe each kid who can spell. In fact, in my fourth grade spelling bee I had to sit down because I couldn’t spell awe, a […]
Brown vs. Board of Education
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brown-vs-BOE.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/17/2000 Brown vs. BOE Transcript Today is the anniversary of the 1954 supreme court decision known as Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Generally, most people know that these words, Brown v. Education, are what led to the most startling […]
Etiquette Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Etiquette-Week.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/10/2000 Etiquette Week Transcript This is National Etiquette Week, and to a child, there is almost nothing more boring than learning etiquette. It can be dangerous, too. Quentin Crisp, a British author wrote that “nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into […]
Invisible Ink
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Invisible-Ink.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/3/2000 Invisible Ink Transcript This is the anniversary of the invention of invisible ink. To a child who has learned to read and write, nothing is more exciting than receiving a note that seems to have no words on it at all except […]
Your First Kiss Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remember-Your-First-Kiss-Day.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 4/26/2000 Your First Kiss Day Transcript Today is Remember Your First Kiss Day. Now, everybody knows that talking about your first kiss is not talking about the first time you got a kiss. Because 99 times out of a hundred anybody’s first kiss […]