courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art
Modern Kids: Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson, 1916.
courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art
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Modern Kids: Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911
The Museum of Modern Art has not included the painting with the podcast for Marc Chagall’s I and the Village, perhaps due to copyright law. I’ve included a link to the painting. If at all possible, open two windows on your browser. Use one to listen to the podcast, the other to view the painting at the same time.
courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art
Here is the painting that accompanies this podcast.
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Modern Kids: Pablo Picasso, Guitar, winter 1912-1913
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg Biography in Sound
Carl Sandburg: Selected poems
Read the text of Chicago Poet, along with several other Sandburg poems, at Poet’s Corner. This link will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.
Soup
I saw a famous man eating soup.
I say he was lifting a fat broth
Into his mouth with a spoon.
His name was in the newspapers that day
Spelled out in tall black headlines
And thousands of people were talking about him.
When I saw him,
He sat bending his head over a plate
Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon.
Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes,
Sob on the long cool winding saxophones.
Go to it, O jazzmen.
Sling your knuckles on the bottoms of the happy tin pans,
Let your trombones ooze,
And go hushahusha-hush with the slippery sand-paper.
Moan like an autumn wind high in the lonesome tree-tops,
Moan soft like you wanted somebody terrible,
Cry like a racing car slipping away from a motorcycle cop,
Bang-bang! you jazzmen,
Bang altogether drums, traps, banjoes, horns, tin cans-
Make two people fight on the top of a stairway
And scratch each other’s eyes in a clinch tumbling down the stairs.
Can the rough stuff …
Now a Mississippi steamboat pushes up the night river
With a hoo-hoo-hoo-oo …
And the green lanterns calling to the high soft stars …
A red moon rides on the humps of the low river hills …
Go to it, O jazzmen.
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
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Total running time: 6 hours, 55 minutes
Chapter 2 The Coming of Tom and Nancy
Chapter 3 The Coming of Pollyanna
Chapter 4 The Little Attic Room
Chapter 7 Pollyanna and Punishments
Chapter 8 Pollyanna Pays a Visit
Chapter 9 Which Tells of the Man
Chapter 10 Surprise for Mrs. Snow
Chapter 12 Before the Ladies’ Aid
Chapter 14 Just a Matter of Jelly
Chapter 16 A Red Rose and a Lace Shawl
Chapter 19 Which is Somewhat Surprising
Chapter 20 Which is More Surprising
Chapter 21 A Question is Answered
Chapter 22 Sermons and Woodboxes
Chapter 28 The Game and its Players
Chapter 29 Through an Open Window
Music from Early America
Archiving Early America has posted midi files for several songs from various early American time periods.
The Star Spangled Banner and America
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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To read the text of this poem, click here.
Click here to see a downloadable lapbook about Paul Revere.
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Thanksgiving Proclamations
Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick for Thanksgiving study. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
Free Audio.org has provided 3 historic Thanksgiving Proclamations for download or streaming.
You can find more podcasts like these at Free Audio.
Georg Friedrich Handel
Classics for Kids has many excellent podcasts for children about composers. Here are some links to their site:
You can read a short biography of Handel here. Click “hear the music” to hear a selection from Handel. And here are some podcasts about Handel.
Click here to listen to all of their podcasts about Handel, and to view activity sheets and brief quizzes.
Titles include:
About George Frederick Handel
The Story of the Water Music
Other Water Music
Music By Royalty and Nobility
For more great podcasts and worksheets about other composers, go to Classics for Kids.
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Adventures in Odyssey historical radio drama
Focus on the Family Adventures in Odyssey
Focus on the Family has made several episodes of Adventures in Odyssey available for free streaming or download. Click the above link, which will take you to the Focus on the Family media page. You’ll see a gray tool bar underneath the media player; click Sort By Shows. Then look through the list going down the left hand side and click Adventures in Odyssey. Select the audio you would like to hear.
I found several historical episodes, but their titles are being regularly changed and updated, so check their site regularly if you are an Adventures in Odyssey fan!
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The Legend of Squanto: Focus on the Family Radio Theater broadcast
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To listen to the radio broadcast of Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part one, click here.
To listen to the radio broadcast of Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part two, click here.
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Selected Poems by Robert Frost
Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick for studying poetry. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
Clicking the following links will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School. This excellent site, Robert Frost Out Loud, has several recordings of Frost poems recited by the poet himself, many more read by a Frost enthusiast, and text for each included poem.
Click here to listen to Robert Frost reading his own poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
Robert Frost reads his poem The Road Not Taken
You can hear more audio recordings of Robert Frost poetry at Robert Frost Out Loud. Poems with a blue arrow beside the title are recorded in the poet’s own voice. To listen, click on the poem titles.
Click here to read the e-text for the following poems.
A Boy’s Will is Frost’s first full volume of poetry. E-text for A Boy’s Will (you must have Adobe Reader to open this e-text).
Contents:
Part I
1. Into My Own
2. Ghost House
3. My November Guest
4. Love and a Question
5. A Late Walk
6. Stars
7. Storm Fear
8. Wind and Window Flower
9. To the Thawing Wind
10. A Prayer in Spring
11. Flower-gathering
12. Rose Pogonias
13. Asking for Roses
14. Waiting—Afield at Dusk
15. In a Vale
16. A Dream Pang
17. In Neglect
18. The Vantage Point
19. Mowing
20. Going for Water
Part II
21. Revelation
22. The Trial by Existence
23. In Equal Sacrifice
24. The Tuft of Flowers
25. Spoils of the Dead
26. Pan with Us
27. The Demiurge’s Laugh
Part III
28. Now Close the Windows
29. A Line-storm Song
30. October
31. My Butterfly
32. Reluctance
Robert Frost: Essential American Poets
Robert Frost: Essential American Poets is a podcast from The Poetry Foundation gives brief biographical information about Robert Frost, along with archival recordings of Frost reading his own poetry, recorded at the Library of Congress in 1959.
Christmas holiday old time radio
Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss
Summary: “How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!” Thus begins the lifelong diary of young Katherine as she pours out her hopes, dreams, and spiritual journey on the pages of her dear, old journal. Whimsical and charming Katherine is engagingly candid about her character flaws and her desire to know God. As you listen to her share her heart through these journal entries, you will be amazed and delighted by the depth of her character and the womanly wisdom and godliness she develops over the years. From the agonies of being a teenager to the delicate balancing act between being a wife/mother/daughter/neighbor, it is easy to relate to Katherine’s triumphs and trials whether you are 16 or 60. Listen to her unforgettable story set in the early 1800’s as you are encouraged to “step heavenward,” and don’t be surprised if you find yourself recommending it to all of your friends and family!(Introduction by Theresa Downey for Librivox)
Running time: 9 hours, 59 minutes
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Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess
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Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows
Peter Learns Something He Hadn’t Guessed
The Watchman of the Old Orchard
Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark
Some Homes in the Green Forest
A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black
Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat
Peter Saves a Friend and Learns Something
A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester
Peter Discovers Two Old Friends
Some More Friends Come with the Snow
Peter Learns Something about Spooky
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess
Summary: Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long scientific names. There is an emphasis on conservation. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden for Librivox)
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Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
More of Peter’s Long-Legged Cousins
Striped Chipmunk and his Cousins
Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher
A Fellow with a Thousand Spears
A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
Danny’s Northern Cousins and Nimbleheels
Three Little Redcoats and Some Others
Flitter the Bat and his Family
Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher
Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf
Some Big and Little Cat Cousins
Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School
Unc’ Billy and Old Mrs. Possum
Lightfoot, Blacktail and Forkhorn
Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof
Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat
Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
Piggy and Hardshell
The Mammals of the Sea
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Beginning of the Armadillos
How the First Letter was Written
The Crab that Played with the Sea
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
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Chapter 1- Mowgli’s Brothers (part 1)
Chapter 1 – Mowgli’s Brothers (part 2) + Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
Chapter 2 – Kaa’s Hunting (part 1)
Chapter 2 – Kaa’s Hunting (part 2) + Road-Song of the Bandar-Log
Chapter 3 – Tiger! Tiger! (part 1)
Chapter 3- Tiger! Tiger! (part 2) + Mowgli’s Song
Chapter 4 – The White Seal (part 1)
Chapter 4 – The White Seal (part 2) + Lukannon
Chapter 5- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi + Darzee’s Chant
Chapter 6 – Toomai of the Elephants + Shiv and the Grasshopper
Chapter 7 – Her Majesty’s Servants + Parade Song of the Camp Animals
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
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CHAPTER I. NAT
CHAPTER VIII. PRANKS AND PLAYS
CHAPTER XIV. DAMON AND PYTHIAS
