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5.30.26 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radioized Children's Story Hour. As a reminder,
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  RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
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  blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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  read printed material. Your reader today is Patty and we're
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  going to be reading from some books about the season
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  of summer. We're going to start with a book simply
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  called Simply Science Summer. The author is Darlene are Still.
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  It is published by Compass Point Books in two thousand
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  and one. Summer is a season. What time of year
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  do you like best? Is summertime your favorite? Do you
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  go to summer camp? Do you go on trips? Do
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  you go to the beach? Do you play outside all day?
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  Summer is one of the four seasons of the year.
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  It comes after spring and before fall. The photographs on
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  this page show a young boy fishing in a creek,
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  and then the other photograph shows two girls eating ice
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  cream in the hot summer eat. Summer is the warmest
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  season of the year. You can go swimming, you can
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  wear shorts. Some summer days are cool, though, and rainy
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  days can come in summer too. Big summer storms can
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  bring lightning, thunder wind, and rain. The photograph here shows
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  many people gathered on a shady summery day, and some
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  of them are walking toward a beach with sand and
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  many colorful beach umbrellas set up continuing the summer sun.
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  Do you know what makes summer the warmest season? It
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  is the sun. The sun is a huge ball of
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  gas that gives off heat and light. Heat from the
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  sun warms up the ground and the air too. All
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  life on Earth needs the sun. Light from the sun
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  helps plants to grow. When you eat lots of those plants,
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  your body grows big and strong. You could not survive
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  without the sun. But its rays can hurt people. If
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  you are not careful, the sun's rays can burn your skin.
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  It's smart to wear a hat and sunglasses in the summer.
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  It is also important to put sunscreen on your skin.
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  Summer days and nights. What can you see on a
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  warm summer day? You can see bees buzzing around the
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  flowers and butterflies flitting through the air. You can see
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  ducks swimming on ponds and watch frogs catching flies. You
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  can see and hear the songbirds in the trees. What
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  can you see on a warm summer night? You could
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  see fireflies flashing in an open field and stars twinkling
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  in the sky. If you look at the stars, does
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  some of them seem to form shapes? One shape is
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  called the Big Dipper. Pretend you can draw lines to
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  connect the seven stars in the Big Dipper. Your picture
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  would look like a bowl with a long handle, a
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  big dipper. A photograph here shows two young people out
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  in a field and it's nighttime, and they're looking up
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  at the stars. Watch the skies one night each week
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  all summer long. This the Dipper move. It may look
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  like it moves, but stars do not move. It is
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  the Earth that moves. Earth travels around the Sun. It
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  takes one full year for Earth to go around the Sun.
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  Earth's motion makes it seem as if the Big Dipper
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  moves to different parts of the sky. Different parts of
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  Earth tip or tilt toward the Sun at different times
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  of the year. That is why we have summer. Pretend
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  that Earth is a big ball. Imagine a stick going
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  right through its center. The stick goes in at the
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  top of the Earth and comes out at the bottom.
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  Earth has no stick going through its center, of course,
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  but this idea helps you see how parts of the
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  Earth can be tipped toward the Sun. This imaginary stick
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  is called an axis. Earth's imaginary axis is always tilted
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  a little bit. The part of Earth that is tipped
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  toward the Sun gets the most heat from the Sun.
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  During some parts of the year, the tilt makes the
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  top part of the Earth point toward the Sun. During
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  other parts of the year, the bottom part of the
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  Earth points toward the sun. It is summer on the
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  part of the Earth that is tipped toward the sun.
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  The illustration here shows the picture of the Earth with
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  this imaginary stick running through it and shows how the
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  Earth moves around in the different seasons and tilts in
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  different ways so that different parts are facing and closest
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  to the Sun. When the top half of Earth is
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  tipped towards the sun, it is summer in North America, Europe, Asia,
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  and northern Africa. When the bottom half of Earth is
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  tipped towards the sun, it is summer in South America, Australia,
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  Southern Africa, and Antartica. In most parts of the world,
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  some summer days are very hot, but others are just warm.
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  In most deserts, however, summer days are always hot and dry.
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  There is very little water in a desert. Only a
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  few plants and animals can live there. Cactus plants can
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  live in a desert. The cactus can store water in
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  its thick stem. A photograph here shows a desert with
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  mountains in the background, all the dry, very arid soil
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  in front. But there are a few flowers that are
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  actually glimming, some white ones and some purple ones. And
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  the caption of the picture shows blooming flowers in the
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  Mojave Desert in California. Many cactus have sharp spines that
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  keep animals away. Kangaroo and many other desert animals stay
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  cool by hiding underground during the day. They come out
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  to look for food at night when it is cooler.
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  Some lizards, toads, insects, and other desert animals never go
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  out in the heat. They sleep all summer long. Some
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  places on Earth stay hot all year round. These places
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  are called the tropics. If you look at a globe,
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  you can find the tropics. They are located just above
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  and just below an imaginary line called the equator. The
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  equator runs around the middle of Earth. The tropics are
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  never tilted away from the sun, so these areas are
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  warm during every season. Plants are green and flowers bloom
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  all year long. In the tropics, you could go swimming
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  every day. The tropics do not have four seasons like
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  the rest of the world. They have just two seasons.
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  They have a rainy season and a dry season. During
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  the rainy season, it rains almost every day. During the
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  dry season, it almost never rains. There's an illustration here
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  of a young girl who obviously lives in the tropics
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  somewhere playing outside and building a sand castle, and the
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  caption to the photograph says, tropical sun and warmth are
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  great for playing outside. Summer comes and goes in North America.
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  The first day of summer comes around June twenty first.
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  That day has more hours of daylight than any other
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  day of the year. That means it also has the
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  fewest hours of darkness. These days in July and August
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  are long too. You can play outside after you eat dinner,
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  it might still be daylight when you go to bed.
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  By the time fall comes, you probably notice that the
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  days are getting shorter. Night comes earlier and earlier. Around
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  September twenty first, the hours of daylight and darkness are equal.
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  The day is twelve hours long and the night is
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  twelve hours long, that is when summer ends and fall begin.
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  A photograph here shows young children playing outside, running through
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  a sprinkler that is watering their yard. And now in
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  the back of this book there's a glossary, and remember
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  that's a small dictionary that has words that were used
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  in the book that we just read. The first word
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  is axis an imaginary line running through the center of
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  Earth from the north pole to the south pole. Big
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  dipper a group of stars that people think is shaped
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  like a familiar object. Cactus a plant that can live
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  in a desert. Deserts areas of land that are always
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  dry and usually hot. Equator an imaginary line around the
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  center of Earth. Sunscreen a cream that is rubbed on
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  a person's skin to keep some to keep out some
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  of the sun's harmful rays from entering the body. Tilt
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  means to tip tropics, part of Earth near the equator
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  where the air temperature is about the same all year
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  long round. And there's one other section that says, did
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  you know? Did you know? A day is the time
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  it takes Earth to spend once on its axis. A
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  day is twenty four hours long. A year is the
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  time it takes Earth to travel once around the sun.
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  A year is about three hundred and sixty five days long.
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  Did you know the two stars on the outer edge
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  of the Big Dipper's bowl are called pointers. If you
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  follow the line that they make upwards, you will see
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  a bright star called the North Star. In the past,
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  when sailors couldn't see land, they used the North Star
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  to figure out where they were. And did you know
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  that sunscreens protect your skin against only some of the
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  sun's rays. That is why it is important not to
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  spend too much time in the sun, even if you
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  are wearing sunscreen. And now let's read another book. This
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  one is called A to Z of Summer. The author
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  is Tracy Nelson Maller. It's published by Rourke Publishing in
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  two thousand and three. Summer family and friends share time
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  together during summer's warm weather. They play and relax in
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  all kinds of ways from A to Z. What other
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  verbs or action words remind you of summer fun? So
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  now on every page of this book, there's a letter
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  of the alphabet from A to Z and a word
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  that goes with it that might have something to do
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  with summer. So we'll begin a add add mud to the
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  pie here the picture shows or young children making mud pods.
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  B Build a castle. Here the photograph shows a young
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  boy building a fancastle. C Climb climb a rock. The
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  photograph here shows three children who have climbed on top
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  of a large rock that's out in a city park.
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  D dig dig in the sand. The photograph here shows
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  two young boys at the beach digging in the sand.
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  E Escape escape the heat. Here, why see two young
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  boys who are in a body of water, probably a
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  creek of some splashing each other, escaping the heat. F
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  fish fishing a river. Here young people are on the
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  shore of a river and they are all fishing. G giggle,
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  giggle with friends. The photograph here shows three young girls together.
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  They are outside and they're all laughing, all giggling. H
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  Hold hold the rope. A young boy is at the park.
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  He's holding on to a rope. Swim I in line
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  inline skate carefully. Here the photograph shows a young boy
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  with inline skates or rollerblade outside. He's wearing a helmet
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  and elbow pads and knee peg for his inline skating carefully.
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  J jump jump into the lake. Here we three see
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  three young people swimming in the lake. And they're all smiling.
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  K Kick in the surf. Here are two young people
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  are at the beach. Waves are coming in and they're
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  kicking in the surf. L look look for treasure. The
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  photograph here shows a young boy in the water and
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  he's wearing goggles and a snorkel and he's been looking
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  through the wall into the water for treasure. M Mow,
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  Mow the yard. Here, a young boy is pushing a
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  lawn mower mowing his yard. In net net a butterfly. Here,
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  a young boy is out in the yard and he
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  has a butterfly net, which is a long stick with
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  a net at the end of it, and he's trying
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  to catch a butterfly. Oh. Order order an ice cream cone.
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  The photograph here shows a young girl at an ice
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  cream shop and she has ordered an ice cream cot.
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  It looks like it might be mint chocolate chip ice cream,
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  and she's handing the person who's giving her the ice
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  cream cone some money. P Play a tune. Here, a
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  young boy is sitting on a rock wall playing a
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  tune on a ukulele that's a small stringed instrument. Play
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  a tune. Q quench Quench your thirst. Here, a young
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  boy is outside on a playground and he's from a
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  water bottle, quenching his thirst. R ride ride a bike.
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  The photograph here shows a young girl riding her bike
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  and she's wearing a bicycle helmet. S skip skip down
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  the street. The photograph here shows three young girls outside
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  on the sidewalk and they've linked their arms together and
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  they're skipping down the sidewalk. T toast toast marshmallow. The
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  photograph here shows a young girl and a young boy
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  gathered around a campfire and they each have a long
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  stick with marshmallows at the end and they're toasting their
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  marshmallow you unfurled unfurled flags at a parade. Here, two
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  young boys are sitting on a bench watching a parade
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  go down the street. Each of them is holding a
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  small American flag that they have unfurled and are waving.
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  The visit visit with friends. The photograph here shows three
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  young people at a playground in the summertime and they're
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  standing nicely with each other, talking, visiting with each other
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  as friends. Waged weighed in the water. The photograph here
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  shows lots of children in their swimsuits waiting in the water.
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  X xing means crossing. The photograph here shows a group
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  of four people, one of whom is holding a soccer ball,
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  and they're getting ready to cross this a busy street
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  and there's a street sign that says head xing, which
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  means pedestrian crossing, and they're standing there waiting until it's
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  time to cross the street. Why yell yell for your team?
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  Here a group of young people, let's see, there's five
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  of them gathered and they're jumping up and down and
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  they're yelling, and they're watching a soccer game. They will
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  yell for their team and z zigzag zigzag on a scooter.
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  The photograph here shows a young boy wearing a helmet
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  zigzagging down the sidewalk on his scooter. All of these
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  had lots of fun during the summer. And now let's
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  read one more story. This one is set in rhyme
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  and it's called Summer Days and Nights. The author is
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  Wong Herbert Gee. It was published by Christy Octavia Books,
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  a division of Henry Holt and Company in twenty twelve.
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  Summer Days, So warm and bright, Paint my room in
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  morning light. Here the illustration shows a young girl yawning
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  as she wakes up in her room filled with glorious
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  summer sunshine as cat naps in a patch of sun.
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  My summer day has just begun. Now I see the
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  little girl holding a butterfly net. She's outside, walking through
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  the grass near her house, in the meadow where daisies grow.
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  I creep along on tippytoe behind a clump of rocks.
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  I stoop up and over, down and swoop. What's inside
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  my net? Hmm? No butterfly just yet. The illustrations here
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  run across the page. First we have the young girl
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  walking through a field of daisies, and now she's behind
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  a clump of rocks, and she swings her net to
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  try to catch a butterfly, but there's nothing there. Continuing,
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  summer days can get so hot. Makes me steam like
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  a teapot. Beneath an oak tree in the shade, I
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  sip an ice cold lemonade. Here we see the young
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  girl still with her butternet butterfly net near her, sitting
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  on the ground under the shade of a tree, sipping
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  an ice cold lemonade through a straw. What else is
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  there to keep me cool? Curse splash? I jump into
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  the pool. An insect whizzes past my head. It zips
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  into the flower bed. Boo boo boo, what's this? I
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  see a black and yellow bubble bee. The both of
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  the illustrations across these pages show the young girl in
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  a blue swimsuit jumping into a small pool that is
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  filled with water. And then from the edge of the pool,
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  she's looking out into a garden and she sees a
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  giant black and yellow bumblebee that has landed on some
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  pink flowers. Summer's eve before it's dark. Hooray, A picnic
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  in the park. Here we see the mother and the
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  father and the same young girl walking through the field
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  to a picnic table located under the shade of a tree.
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  The mother is carrying a picnic basket from tree to tree.
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  I run and hide. We I shoot straight down the slide.
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  Here we see the young girl in the park heading
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  right for the swing sets, and then she's going down
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  the slide. We spread a blanket on the ground, plates
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  and napkins passed around. Here I see the family sitting
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  on the big red blanket. They've opened a picnic basket,
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  and delicious looking sandwiches are put onto a plate. Guess
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  who comes to join the fun. Black ants marching one
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  by one. Now the young girl is lying down on
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  the blank watching some black ant as they arch toward
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  the food that they have on their blanket. A golden
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  sun seeks stinks in the sky. Another summer day gone by.
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  Now the illustration shows the family back in their car,
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  headed back home after their fun outing and picnic. Summer
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  night's too hot to sleep. From the windowsill, I peep.
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  I hear a noise, a scritch scratch sound. Something's creeping
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  on the ground. Who is there outside my house? Why?
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  It's just a tiny mouse. A shadow drifts across the grass.
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  I duck and wake as it floats past. Who who cries?
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  Who's calling me? Oh? Look a barn owl in the tree.
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  Summer nights, moonlit skies, winking, blinking fireflies. I hear a splash,
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  see something jump? A voice croaks loth for up, for up.
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  A summer breeze blows through the trees. It bends the
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  branches and rustles the leaves across the field on past
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  the gate. My eyelids droop. It's getting late. I crawl
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  in bed, turn off the light and dream of summer
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  days and nights. This concludes the Children's Story Hour for today.
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  Please join us next time as we will read more stories,
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  fables and fairy tales. Thank you for listening and please
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  stay tuned for continuing programming on Radio I