Buttons & Figs

What’s in Noun Town you ask?! Well, Noun Town has people and animals, places, and things! Noun Town always has ideas, but only on Tuesdays. You are about to hear actual headlines read from the Noun Town Newspaper archives. Your challenge is to write down all the Nouns in each headline! Ready to learn a bit about the goings on in Noun Town? Are you sure?

http://buttonsandfigs.com/www-noun-town-news/

Visit www.buttonsandfigs.com and look for Wacky Wordplay Wednesday to find these challenges - for your whiteboard, or smart board, or any old board.

Each Wacky Wordplay Wednesday (WWW)episode will feature a wordplay game you can play - with your family, friends, classmates or on your own. Most Wednesdays this fall, join us for a wordplay ball. WWW episodes are brought to you by Buttons & Figs, a podcast for kids about playing with words.

written by: pamela rogers

audio produced by: blaise collins

inspired by: ron barrett's

Now, GO PLAY!

Orange & black and black & orange,

You know what this all means!

It’s coming! it’s coming!

It’s coming! It’s coming!

It's coming! It's HALLOWEEN!

Buttons & Figs kids love Halloween,

The best time of the year!

A night to go out, paint your face,

and feel and give out fear!

Happy October.....Bah-ha-ha-ha-ha...Boo!

written by mark pena and pamela rogers

vocals by mark pena

audio produced by blaise collins

sfx by Zapsplat

extra! extra! It's National Comic Book Day and to celebrate we have SUPER HERO KIDS telling SUPER HERO JOKES! Kids selected a joke from the "DC Super Friends Joke Book" to share with you! We recorded these jokes at the Velma Teague branch of Glendale Public Library during their LibConWest Festival. A Free Festival dedicated to celebrating comics and pop culture! Mark your calendar for this year's event...Sat Dec 5, 2020...we hope! Visit www.libconwest.org or glendaleazlibrary.com to learn more! Wakanda forever, comic books always!

Before Buttons & Figs heads back into the school year with more wacky wordplay...we have an extra! episode about social justice. On this episode you'll hear three amazing poems read by Mahogany Browne from the new poetry picture book titled, "Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice." You'll also get to hear from some Buttons & Figs kids sharing their thoughts about justice. We hope hearing these poems and conversations will prompt you to talk about social justice with your family.

The poems in "Woke" also feature poets Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood, with a forward by Jason Reynolds. This picture book is filled with hope and joy and the poems will help grownups open up conversations with kids about justice. The book is illustrated by Theodore Taylor III and published by Roaring Brook Press.

We'll be back to our regularly scheduled wacky wordplay next time. Till then, may your head turn green and your hands turn blue. Thanks for listening to me and you and you and me.

audio sound by Blaise Collins

sound FX from Zapsplat

produced by Buttons & Figs

Two kids, two ideas. One song contest. On the back of a cereal box. Should these kids enter? Can they work together? Will they win? What is a lunar launcher? This is the last stop...in the Summertime Zone.

You are now leaving the Summertime Zone. We don’t understand why you entered this kid dimension, but we are grateful you found your way into this middle ground between stupidity and wisdom, between make-believe and absurdity. May the kid dimension of stories always find its way to you. Be well.

Summertime Zone sketch comedy written and performed by Pamela Rogers and Mark Pena.

Frosty Pops written, performed and produced by Mark Pena and Pamela Rogers

Audio mastering by Blaise Collins

We now return you to our regularly scheduled program of wordplay, poetry and episodes written by Buttons & Figs kids.

School day. The past. The seasons were about to change, when a moment happened. An incident that caused time to stand still, a moment where you question reality. This incident could only happen...in the summertime zone.

written by pamela rogers and mark pena

voices by mark pena

music includes pieces by mark pena & pamela rogers and turbosol https://www.youtube.com/c/95TurboSol

produced by pamela rogers

audio mastered by blaise collins

You are traveling through to the kid dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but great indecision. A time when deciding on what game to play became a game in and of itself...get ready to play in the Summertime Zone!

Was this fun? Next time you’re faced with indecision, try our choosing rhyme, it always works when you’re….in the Summertime Zone.

written and voiced by pamela rogers and mark pena

You are about to journey into the past, when kids took turn telling stories after a long day of play...but sometimes it landed on that kid. The kid who likes candy and slurpees. Next stop, the Summertime Zone.

The time is Summer, yet it is time for school to begin. Meet Ms. Fredrickson, Occupation: 3rd grade teacher. It is her first day of school. It is 8:00 a.m….online. The journey you are about to hear could be our journey. Next stop will be….in the summertime zone.

The Summertime Zone is a dimension of stories told by kids in Summertime. You are about to enter that dimension, a journey into the shadows of The Shadow House. We all know a house like The Shadow House. A house on our block where things go on, scary things, shadowy things, familiar things?! Next stop, the Summertime Zone.