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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 Collin

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.

This is the dimension of stories, told in Summertime. Tune in as these adults reminisce about the stories they used to tell in the summer...were their stories as scary as they say they were? Join us next time in the dimension of stories, when we travel back to when these adults were kids, so you can hear their stories and decide for yourself, join us...in The Summertime Zone! written by: pamela rogers & mark pena voices by: pamela rogers & mark pena piano arrangement by: jonny may from https://youtu.be/LV4TA_IhB1U used with permission - to learn to play like jonny may check out: https://pianowithjonny.com/

Summertime Encore: Summertime is a time for summer. Listen in as the kids at Camp Summer Camp tell scary stories, including one about an abominable butternut squash...yes, you read that right, a squash, a butternut squash, an abominable butternut squash. Summer fun, summer play, summer all day cuz we don't care a button, we don't care a fig. Now go play. www.buttonsandfigs.com [sound fx courtesy of Zapsplat and a casio keyboard.]

Summertime Encore: Summertime is a time for summer. Bigfoot likes a bad joke, in the summertime. This episode is brought to you by - Cryptozoology, when regular zoology is just not crypto enough. Summer fun, summer play, summer all day cuz we don't care a button, we don't care a fig. Now go play. www.buttonsandfigs.com . [sound fx courtesy of Zapsplat and a casio keyboard.]

Encore: Summertime is a time for summer. Here's some pastiche from the Thesaurus, because it's always good to have healthy options. Malapropisms are fun in the sun, capiche? Summer fun, summer play, summer all day cuz we don't care a button, we don't care a fig. Now go play. www.buttonsandfigs.com . [sound fx courtesy of Zapsplat, Italian music from Italy's open source project www.canzoneitaliana.it]

Encore: Summertime is a time for summer. Here's a tasty treat of homonyms, delicious for the whole family whether in a hole during bad weather or at sea. See? You see, sea creatures love homonyms, see? Sea? Summer fun, summer play, summer all day cuz we don't care a button, we don't care a fig. Now go play. www.buttonsandfigs.com

Buttons & Figs is about to begin our Summertime Series of wordplay fun! And, we have an announcement...Buttons & Figs has a new YouTube Channel that will be filling up with wordplay skits, songs, poems, and wacky summertime news...be sure to Subscribe here and there this Summertime!

"And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came." Listen as poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reads this famous Lewis Carroll line, explaining it is the yeast that made his book, Jabber-Walking, rise. Jabber-Walking is a way to observe the world, inspiring kids to write poetry. On this episode, Juan shares where his love of poetry came from, how he came up with Jabber-Walking, and how YOU can start Jabber-Walking too. It also features 4th grade student voices from Landmark Elementary School in Glendale, Arizona, who share their Jabber-Writing as they walked through the tulgey wood. Visit Buttons & Figs to find the full interview with Juan Felipe Herrera and a free downloadable coloring sheet, by artist Ann Pickard, inspired by this episode. -- now go write and walk...Jabber-Walk!

On this episode we sail our sieve to the land of Neologisms...in other words, we get to make up new nonsense words! Buttons & Figs kids lead the way to wordplay with neologisms, hoping you'll send us your newly invented words so we can add them to the OFFISHAL Buttons & Figs Dictionary, which will only include your invented words! Be sure to download our first coloring page from artist Ann Pickard, featuring a newly coined word! So let's get started with some wordplay today! - coloring and neologism play at buttonsandfigs.com

How well do you know your nursery rhymes?! Test your knowledge on Nursery Rhyme Jeopardy! We have 5 clues. See if you can guess the answers...in the form of a question, of course! 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 spring, join us for this wordplay thing. WWW episodes are brought to you by Buttons & Figs, a podcast for kids about playing with words. Visit www.buttonsandfigs.com to find WWW companion pieces to help you play our way! Now, GO PLAY!

For National Poetry Month, we sail in a sieve to the land of poetry, with author Kyle Lukoff. Kyle just released a picture book titled, "Explosion at the Poem Factory." Kyle shares the story about the good bad poem that inspired his book, you'll also learn about the Philolexian Society he belonged that each year hosts a bad poetry festival each year…and he shares the secret of what makes a bad poem..good. And as always, a few Buttons & Figs kids share their good bad poems to show us the way to wordplay...Now go write a poem! www.buttonsandfigs.com