Flocabulary

I just want to say that I love my fellow classmates in the Integrated Language Arts program. They find the coolest websites/ideas to use in the classroom. One of them just introduced me to the website www.flocabulary.com. This website gives ideas for incorporating hip-hop in the classroom. There are ideas for every grade-level and for several subjects: vocabulary/reading, writing, social studies, and math. It has some free videos on the website for teachers to use, but their main products are for sale. Flocabulary is like the equivalent of School House Rock, but with hip-hop music! I've only watched the free Edgar Allan Poe videos of The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado. I had my sister, who just read The Cask of Amontillado in class, watch the video and she loved it. She said it really helped make sense of the story.