Going to the Beach
All the kids are heading for the beach on “Fun in the Sun” — the latest installment from Snoopy’s Klassics on Toys.
Some Notes on Camp
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Some-Notes-on-Camp.mp3 Author Kenneth Kidd Air Date 6/27/2001 Some Notes on Camp Transcript Organized camping in the United States dates to 1861, when Frederick William Gunn, headmaster of the Gunnery School in Connecticut, took his entire student body for a two-week foray into the wilderness. The camping movement gathered steam with […]
Playing Smart — All Summer
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 […]
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.
Outdoor Games
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Outdoor-Games-on-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 6/15/2000 Outdoor Games Transcript It’s June, and one day very soon that school bell will ring for the last time, signaling the beginning of summer vacation! Over the past week, I’ve been asking my library patrons to tell me about their favorite summer memories […]