It's Friday, I'm in love...

Love this song.... 80's music holds a special place in my heart =) Happy Friday!

Writing Prompt: What Would the Theme Song to your life be?

 Have students write the song, lyrics, why they chose it. Could do a soundtrack also.

They could embed it on their web site/class website, make a word Cloud with the lyrics, write about it for language arts... endless ways to use this idea.

From classroomcollective.tumblr.com - I found on facebook.

Flocabulary for Grads

I love Flocabulary. They use rap to teach numerous things. They have some free resources as well as subscriptions available for more content.

This is a cool video that recaps the last 18 years for 2012 graduates. There is also some lesson plans and activities.

http://flocabulary.com/18-years-in-rap-2012/

http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/pdfs/18-years-in-rap-2012-activities.pdf

"Not Gonna Take It" - Music Video by teacher's

Yesterday I went by Glen School and the passionate, energetic, creative teacher's shared a song they made up while on their walk-out.

Today, I returned and they had video taped it and I asked if they could send it to me to share. I think it is clever and encourage you to share it with others: