Latest / Children's Hour / 7.19.26 - Part 2
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to radioi's Children's Story Hour. As a reminder,
- 0:07Speaker 1: Radio Eye is a reading service intended for people who
- 0:10Speaker 1: are blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult
- 0:14Speaker 1: to read printed material. Today we will be reading from
- 0:18Speaker 1: various children's books about summertime. Your reader today is Patty.
- 0:26Speaker 1: We'll start with the book called how Do You Know
- 0:31Speaker 1: It's Summer? The author, that's the person who wrote the
- 0:35Speaker 1: book is Ruth Owen. It was published by Bearport Publishing
- 0:42Speaker 1: in twenty twelve. Let's begin It's summer. There are four
- 0:49Speaker 1: seasons in every year, Spring, summer, fall, and winter. Summer
- 0:56Speaker 1: is the season when many people have fun at the
- 1:00Speaker 1: beach on hot sunny days. Gardens are filled with colorful flowers.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Busy insects seem to be everywhere. Look for these and
- 1:13Speaker 1: other signs of summer as spring comes to an end
- 1:17Speaker 1: each year. Each year, summer starts on either June twentieth
- 1:25Speaker 1: or June twenty first. The first day of summer is
- 1:29Speaker 1: marked on calendars. Describe what summer weather is like where
- 1:36Speaker 1: you live. The photograph on this page shows three young
- 1:41Speaker 1: children who are sitting at the beach, and they have
- 1:44Speaker 1: goggles and snorkels. On and they're ready to go out
- 1:49Speaker 1: into the water. Continuing, the longest day is here. As
- 1:57Speaker 1: summer gets closer, there are more hours of light each day.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Sometimes it is even still light outside at bedtime. The
- 2:08Speaker 1: first day of summer is the longest day of the year.
- 2:12Speaker 1: This means there are many more hours of light than
- 2:16Speaker 1: darkness on that day. Once summer arrives and the longest
- 2:21Speaker 1: day has passed, there are fewer hours of daylight each day.
- 2:27Speaker 1: The photograph here shows a family mom, dad, and two
- 2:32Speaker 1: young children roasting marshmallows around a campfire. It's heating up.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Hot weather is often a sign that summer has arrived.
- 2:50Speaker 1: It may even feel hot outside at night. In some places,
- 2:55Speaker 1: it may not rain for days or weeks during the summer.
- 3:00Speaker 1: In some places, summer is the time for thunderstorms. People
- 3:05Speaker 1: may see lightning flashes and hear the rumble of thunder.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Here's something you can try every Saturday for four weeks
- 3:15Speaker 1: during the summer. Use a thermometer to measure the temperature outside.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Each measurement must be done at the same time of day.
- 3:25Speaker 1: See how the temperature changes from week to week. The
- 3:30Speaker 1: photograph here is an outdoor scene in a field and
- 3:35Speaker 1: It shows lightning strikes raining down from a dark blue sky,
- 3:42Speaker 1: continuing summer colors. Many plants grow colorful flowers in summertime.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Butterflies and bees often go from flower to flower to
- 3:57Speaker 1: find food they are looking or the sweet liquid that
- 4:02Speaker 1: flowers make. It is called nectar. Plants make seeds inside
- 4:09Speaker 1: their flowers. The seeds drop from the flowers in late
- 4:14Speaker 1: summer and fall in spring. The seeds will grow into
- 4:19Speaker 1: new plants. Different types of flowers have different colors and smells.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Smell several kinds of flowers, then draw a picture of
- 4:31Speaker 1: each flower in a notebook and write down words that
- 4:34Speaker 1: describe what the flowers smell like under each picture. And
- 4:41Speaker 1: here the photograph is of oh, it's a very close
- 4:45Speaker 1: photograph of a bee, and the bee is inside the
- 4:50Speaker 1: flower drawing out the nectar, and the caption says a
- 4:56Speaker 1: bee looking for nectar. Green leaves. In spring, fat green
- 5:07Speaker 1: buds grow on the branches of some trees. The buds
- 5:12Speaker 1: burst open into flowers and leaves. By summer, however, the
- 5:18Speaker 1: flowers have disappeared and the leaves cover the trees. There
- 5:24Speaker 1: may be another clue that summer has arrived hidden among
- 5:28Speaker 1: the leaves, fruit on apple trees, for example, tiny apples
- 5:35Speaker 1: begin to appear during the summer. Many insects and spiders
- 5:41Speaker 1: live in trees. Look for them on the trunk of
- 5:44Speaker 1: a tree or on branches and leaves close to the ground.
- 5:50Speaker 1: Check the area around the tree too, count how many
- 5:53Speaker 1: bugs are there. Don't touch or disturb the tiny creatures.
- 5:59Speaker 1: The leaves of a tree make a shady spot where
- 6:02Speaker 1: people and animals can cool off on a hot day.
- 6:09Speaker 1: A photograph here shows a very large tree providing a
- 6:15Speaker 1: lot of shade on the ground and underneath. There are
- 6:19Speaker 1: many sheep enjoying the shady spot. Time to leave home.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Summer is the season when many young animals leave their mothers.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Squirrels are born in spring. By the summer they are
- 6:39Speaker 1: old enough to live on their own. They will build
- 6:42Speaker 1: themselves homes called drays from twigs and leaves. In the summer,
- 6:50Speaker 1: it is usually cooler in the early morning and evening
- 6:55Speaker 1: than in the middle of the day. Many animals look
- 6:58Speaker 1: for food at these times. They rest in the shade
- 7:03Speaker 1: during the hottest part of the day. Here we have
- 7:08Speaker 1: photographs of squirrels. One shows a squirrel with its little
- 7:14Speaker 1: arms full of twigs and leaves. Another is a picture
- 7:20Speaker 1: of its home that it has built, called a dray
- 7:24Speaker 1: that's spelled d r e y, And then a large
- 7:28Speaker 1: photograph of a squirrel who is nestled down on the
- 7:32Speaker 1: ground eating wild strawberries taking off. Many young birds learn
- 7:42Speaker 1: to fly in summer. For example, a swallow chick begins
- 7:48Speaker 1: to learn by standing on the edge of its nest.
- 7:53Speaker 1: It flaps its little wings again and again, trying them out.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Then it jumps with its mother and father close by.
- 8:02Speaker 1: The young swallow takes its first flying lesson. Birds like
- 8:10Speaker 1: to splash in water to cool off in the summer.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Put about two inches or five centimeters of water and
- 8:19Speaker 1: a shallow bowl and leave it outside. Then watch for
- 8:23Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes and count how many birds come by
- 8:26Speaker 1: to cool off in the water. The photograph here shows
- 8:32Speaker 1: a robin sitting or standing in a bird bath and
- 8:38Speaker 1: splashing the water all around itself just to cool off.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Tiny signs of summer. In summer, you can see more
- 8:49Speaker 1: insects than at any other time of year. Grasshoppers hop
- 8:54Speaker 1: around on lawns eating grass and other plants. Tiny aphids
- 9:00Speaker 1: the juices from plants. Hungry ladybugs stay busy eating the aphids.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Look for black ants in your backyard. If you see some,
- 9:11Speaker 1: put out three piles of food lettuce, sugar, and breadcrumbs.
- 9:17Speaker 1: Guess which food the ants will like best. Watch to
- 9:21Speaker 1: see if you guessed right. Insects eat plants and other
- 9:26Speaker 1: insects in summer. It is easy for them to find
- 9:30Speaker 1: lots of food. And here the photograph is of a
- 9:35Speaker 1: ladybug eating tiny tiny bugs called aphids. These aphids are
- 9:42Speaker 1: on the leaf of a plant. Some are in a
- 9:47Speaker 1: garden in summer, the seeds that people planted in the
- 9:53Speaker 1: spring have grown into plants. Giant sunflowers sore taller than
- 9:59Speaker 1: a chilt. Juicy red tomatoes hang from tomato plants. Crunchy
- 10:06Speaker 1: carrots grow under the soil. Summer is the season when
- 10:11Speaker 1: gardens are filled with flowers and good things to eat.
- 10:17Speaker 1: Some are lasts until September twenty second or twenty third,
- 10:23Speaker 1: and then fall begins. The photographs here show a mother
- 10:30Speaker 1: and her daughter picking tomatoes off a vine, and another
- 10:35Speaker 1: photograph shows a young girl pulling carrots from the ground.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Now Here we have a page called science Lab. When
- 10:47Speaker 1: you are playing in your backyard or on the playground
- 10:51Speaker 1: at school or in a park, go on a summer
- 10:54Speaker 1: treasure hunt. See how many of the things on the
- 10:57Speaker 1: summer treasure hunt list you can smell here, see, or collect.
- 11:03Speaker 1: If it's not summer where you live, then draw a
- 11:06Speaker 1: picture of summer. Include as many things from the list
- 11:09Speaker 1: as you can. Then when summer comes trying to find
- 11:14Speaker 1: you can go outside and try to find the things
- 11:17Speaker 1: you put in your drawing. So here's the list of
- 11:20Speaker 1: the summer treasure hunt. A ladybug, a butterfly, ants going
- 11:27Speaker 1: into and out of a crack in the pavement. An
- 11:31Speaker 1: animal under a shady tree, a bird taking a bath,
- 11:36Speaker 1: fruit growing on a tree, a flower that is taller
- 11:40Speaker 1: than you. Things to smell freshly moan grass, the air
- 11:48Speaker 1: after it has rained on a hot day. Things to
- 11:53Speaker 1: hear the chirping of crickets, a bee buzzing, a bird chirping.
- 12:02Speaker 1: Things to collect. Five green leaves with different shapes, a
- 12:08Speaker 1: blue flower and a red flower. And here are some
- 12:13Speaker 1: science words that we've had in this book. Aphids small
- 12:20Speaker 1: insects that eat the juices of plants. Buds small growths
- 12:28Speaker 1: on the stems of trees and other plants that grow
- 12:32Speaker 1: into flowers and leaves. Insects small animals that have six legs,
- 12:41Speaker 1: three main body parts, two antennas, and a hard covering
- 12:46Speaker 1: called an exoskeleton. Nectar, a sweet liquid made by plants.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Seeds tiny parts of a plant that form in the
- 13:01Speaker 1: flower and can grow into a new plant. And weather
- 13:07Speaker 1: how hot or cold it is outside and other conditions
- 13:12Speaker 1: such as rain, wind and snow. And that's the end
- 13:18Speaker 1: of this book called how do you Know It's Summer?
- 13:24Speaker 1: And now I have another book to share with you.
- 13:27Speaker 1: This one is called Super Summer All Kinds of Summer
- 13:31Speaker 1: Facts and Fun. The author is Bruce Goldstone. It was
- 13:38Speaker 1: published by Henry Holt and Company in twenty nineteen. From
- 13:45Speaker 1: the inside front cover, summer is a season of plenty,
- 13:51Speaker 1: plenty of sun and fun. People take vacations and find
- 13:56Speaker 1: plenty of activities in and around the water. Animals try
- 14:01Speaker 1: to stay cool, while bees and wasps go to work.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Flowers bloom, and fruits and vegetables ripen get ready to
- 14:11Speaker 1: explore summer's amazing abundance. With vivid photographs, lively explanations, and
- 14:18Speaker 1: creative craft ideas, Bruce Goldstone presents all the fascinating facts
- 14:25Speaker 1: that make summer so special. Let's begin. Summer is a
- 14:31Speaker 1: super season of plenty. In summer, there's plenty of sun
- 14:36Speaker 1: and plenty of fun. Fields are filled with plenty of flowers, fruits,
- 14:45Speaker 1: and vegetables. Animals have no trouble finding plenty of food.
- 14:53Speaker 1: Days feel long. Summer begins on the summer solstice in
- 14:59Speaker 1: the North Hemisphere. That's a day near June twenty first.
- 15:03Speaker 1: It's the longest day of the year, but they are
- 15:07Speaker 1: actually getting shorter. Summer ends on the autumnal equinox in
- 15:13Speaker 1: the Northern Hemisphere. That's a day near September twenty second,
- 15:18Speaker 1: when day and night are both twelve hours long. Summer
- 15:25Speaker 1: heat comes from the sun. Heat is a form of energy.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Light waves from the sun bring heat to Earth. On
- 15:37Speaker 1: a sunny day, you can feel energy from the sun
- 15:41Speaker 1: heating your body and all the things around you. Ultraviolet
- 15:47Speaker 1: called UV, rays from the sun can be dangerous even
- 15:52Speaker 1: though you can't see them where UV blocking sunglasses to
- 15:57Speaker 1: protect your eyes, sun sunscreen to protect your skin. The
- 16:05Speaker 1: photograph here shows a young person with sunglasses on and
- 16:10Speaker 1: another person squeezing out sunscreen from a tube to rub
- 16:15Speaker 1: on her arms. Continuing. Summer clothes are light in weight
- 16:22Speaker 1: and color. Lightweight clothing helps you stay cool in the summer.
- 16:29Speaker 1: You don't need heavy clothing to keep warm. Light colors
- 16:33Speaker 1: help you stay comfortable because they don't heat up as
- 16:36Speaker 1: much as dark colors. White or pale pastel colors reflect light,
- 16:43Speaker 1: so some heat energy bounces away from you. Because dark
- 16:48Speaker 1: colors like black or navy blue, absorb light, they also
- 16:53Speaker 1: absorb heat. The photograph on this page shows lots of
- 16:59Speaker 1: summer clothes, flip flops for your feet and sunglasses, light
- 17:06Speaker 1: colored dresses and shirts, sneakers to peede up put on
- 17:11Speaker 1: your feet, and even some caps to keep the sun
- 17:14Speaker 1: out of your eyes. Sweat helps cool your body. You
- 17:22Speaker 1: often feel plenty of sweat in the summer, and that's
- 17:26Speaker 1: a good thing. Sweating helps cool your body down. When
- 17:31Speaker 1: you get overheated, your body releases fluids through tiny holes
- 17:36Speaker 1: in your skin called pores. As the moisture evaporates, you
- 17:41Speaker 1: cool down a little, drink plenty of water to restore
- 17:46Speaker 1: the fluids you lose when you sweat. Animals have plenty
- 17:52Speaker 1: of other ways to stay cool. Many animals can't sweat
- 17:57Speaker 1: to cool themselves down, so they they may pant instead.
- 18:03Speaker 1: Panting circulates air through their bodies. Dogs pant a lot,
- 18:10Speaker 1: but cats may pant on salt hot days too. Some
- 18:15Speaker 1: birds open their beaks to pant. Furry animals often shed
- 18:21Speaker 1: their thick winter coats to stay cool in summer. Warmer
- 18:27Speaker 1: weather causes dense winter fur to fall out gradually. Many
- 18:34Speaker 1: animals seek shelter from the heat. Reptiles, amphibians, and fish
- 18:41Speaker 1: are cold blooded animals and cannot regulate their own body temperatures.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Their bodies are the same temperature as their environments, so
- 18:51Speaker 1: when it gets hot, these animals seek shade or dark places.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Toads and salamanders hide under leaf litter frogs dig into
- 19:04Speaker 1: refreshing mud. Fish and aquatic turtles move into deeper water
- 19:11Speaker 1: where the sun's warmth doesn't reach. Birds and other animals
- 19:17Speaker 1: take a quick dunk to cool off. On these pages,
- 19:23Speaker 1: it shows a photograph of all these different kinds of animals.
- 19:28Speaker 1: A dog is panting and you can see his big
- 19:31Speaker 1: pink tongue sticking out of his mouth. There's also a
- 19:35Speaker 1: picture of a cat with her mouth open and her
- 19:38Speaker 1: tongue sticking out, and there's a frog down in the
- 19:42Speaker 1: cool mud. A salamander is doing the same thing, hiding
- 19:48Speaker 1: under leaves, and there's a bird taking a quick bath
- 19:52Speaker 1: in some cool water. Continuing. Some animals slow way down
- 20:01Speaker 1: in summer. During a summer heat wave, some animals have
- 20:05Speaker 1: an unusual way to keep cool. They slow down an
- 20:10Speaker 1: enter a state called estivation. Some frogs, toads, snails, and
- 20:18Speaker 1: a few kinds of squirrels find a sheltered spot and
- 20:22Speaker 1: go into this leaplike state. They stop eating and use
- 20:27Speaker 1: food and water reserves in their bodies until cooler weather comes.
- 20:33Speaker 1: This behavior helps prevent them from getting too hot and
- 20:38Speaker 1: drying out. And here are photographs of some of those animals.
- 20:44Speaker 1: A desert tortoise, a red legged frog, a land snail,
- 20:52Speaker 1: and a crocodile. How does summer feel? Cold? Grassy, sandy, dry, bumpy, hot, hard, sticky, wet, wetter, breezy, wettest,
- 21:20Speaker 1: and smooth. To go with each of these words, there's
- 21:24Speaker 1: a tiny photograph. So cold, there's a picture of a
- 21:28Speaker 1: young boy eating a popsicle. Grassy. We see the feet
- 21:33Speaker 1: of a child in the grass. Sandy, We see a
- 21:38Speaker 1: young girl at the beach showing her sandy hands. Dry,
- 21:44Speaker 1: we see the earth cracked open, and we just see
- 21:49Speaker 1: the cracked desert sand. Bumpy. An illustration of a starfish, hot,
- 22:00Speaker 1: a thermometer, hard, a seashell, sticky, another photograph of a
- 22:11Speaker 1: young boy eating a sticky ice cream cone. Wet, a
- 22:16Speaker 1: photograph of a young girl running through a sprinkler, wetter,
- 22:21Speaker 1: a photograph of a young boy on a slipping slide,
- 22:26Speaker 1: and wettest A photograph taken with an under water camera
- 22:33Speaker 1: of a child un swimming under the water. Breezy, a
- 22:39Speaker 1: photograph of a child flying a kite. And smooth a
- 22:46Speaker 1: photograph of a watermelon. Summer sun shines on plenty of flowers.
- 22:55Speaker 1: Sunlight brings energy. Plants need to grow. Many flowers bloom
- 23:03Speaker 1: during summer. Annual plants have a life cycle that lasts
- 23:08Speaker 1: one year. They grow from seeds, bloom, produce seeds, and
- 23:14Speaker 1: die in one growing season. Perennial plants live for more
- 23:19Speaker 1: than two years. They may come back here after year.
- 23:25Speaker 1: Where a plant lives affects how it grows. A plant
- 23:30Speaker 1: that is an annual in a place with cold winter
- 23:33Speaker 1: nights might be a perennial where it grows where it's
- 23:38Speaker 1: warm year round. On these pages there are pictures we're
- 23:46Speaker 1: actually photographs of all kinds of flowers. There's a pink dahlia,
- 23:53Speaker 1: a very dark pink penny, an orange poppy, purple, a
- 24:01Speaker 1: daisy with white petals and a center that is yellow,
- 24:07Speaker 1: a lily that is orange, a red rose, a black
- 24:12Speaker 1: eyed susan which looks a little like a daisy, but
- 24:16Speaker 1: it has yellow petals and a brown center, a geranium
- 24:21Speaker 1: which is red, the zenia, which is pink, a snapdragon
- 24:28Speaker 1: which is long and yellow, a marigold which is gold
- 24:33Speaker 1: or orange, and a petunia, which in this photograph is pink.
- 24:42Speaker 1: Young sunflowers follow the summer sun. Some plants follow the
- 24:49Speaker 1: sun during the day. This process is called ileotropism. Young
- 24:56Speaker 1: sunflowers move their blooms to face the sun as it
- 25:00Speaker 1: moves from east to west each day. When a sunflower
- 25:06Speaker 1: is growing, each side of its stem grows at a
- 25:09Speaker 1: different time. During the day. The eastern side of the
- 25:13Speaker 1: stem grows faster, causing the bloom to move toward the
- 25:17Speaker 1: west with the sun. At night, the western side grows faster,
- 25:23Speaker 1: causing the bloom to move back to the east. When
- 25:27Speaker 1: sunflowers are mature, their stems stop growing and their blooms
- 25:32Speaker 1: face in one direction, the east all day long. The
- 25:37Speaker 1: photograph here is of a giant sunflower, its petals are yellow.
- 25:46Speaker 1: Bright flowers attract attention. Colorful summer flowers are more than
- 25:52Speaker 1: just pretty. They help plants reproduce. Bright colors and sweet
- 25:57Speaker 1: smells attract bee and other insects. Inside most flowers, there
- 26:04Speaker 1: is a sweet liquid called nectar. When insects gather this
- 26:09Speaker 1: tasty food, they also rub against the plant's stamens, parts
- 26:14Speaker 1: of which are covered with a fuzz called pollen. The
- 26:18Speaker 1: insects may carry the pollen to a plant's pistol. If
- 26:23Speaker 1: the pollen falls on the right spot, it travels down
- 26:26Speaker 1: through the pistol to the plant's eggs. The pollen fertilizes
- 26:30Speaker 1: the egg and a new seed is formed. Birds, bats,
- 26:36Speaker 1: and the wind can carry pollen too. Farmers have plenty
- 26:43Speaker 1: of summer crops. Here we see an illus, well, actually
- 26:47Speaker 1: a photograph of lots of summer crops blueberries, zucchini, cherries, peaches,
- 26:56Speaker 1: green beans, cucumbers, raspberry, tomatoes, corn, blackberries, plums, strawberries, and watermelons.
- 27:09Speaker 1: What does summer taste like? People come together in summer
- 27:14Speaker 1: to share tasty foods at picnics, barbecues, campfires, and fairs.
- 27:21Speaker 1: What's your favorite summer treat? The photographs here are lots
- 27:27Speaker 1: and lots of summer foods, fruit salad, lemonade, hamburgers fresh
- 27:33Speaker 1: off the grill, grapes, hot dogs, smoothies, s'mores made with
- 27:40Speaker 1: roasted marshmallons and an ice cream cone. Sometimes summer stings.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Mosquitoes bite with their mouths, which are shaped like upside
- 27:53Speaker 1: down funnels. They push the narrow part of their mouth
- 27:57Speaker 1: into people, animals, or plants. Female mosquitoes feed on blood
- 28:01Speaker 1: and sometimes plant juice. Male mosquitoes feed only on plants.
- 28:06Speaker 1: When a mosquito bites you, it leaves a little saliva
- 28:10Speaker 1: and your body reacts to the chemicals and makes you
- 28:13Speaker 1: feel an itch. You can avoid stings by leaving these
- 28:20Speaker 1: insects alone and their nests. If you bee or a
- 28:24Speaker 1: wasp comes near you, stay calm and don't try to
- 28:28Speaker 1: swat it. And the photograph is here. Show a photograph
- 28:32Speaker 1: of a wasp, a bee, and a mosquito. This concludes
- 28:40Speaker 1: the Children's Story Hour for today. Please join us next
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