I decided to focus on a fun video that I remember really impacted my learning when I was in 1st grade! I babysit a little boy who it currently 5 about to be 6 and I wanted to show him this to see if he had the same reaction I did as a child. School House Rock was the go to song and video for teachers while I was growing up. Now, teachers rarely show these videos and I have always wondered why this is. This is a reason why I decided to try this video with a child currently in school. There are many videos that are made by School House Rock but I decided that besides the “conjuction juction, whats your fuction” video, the “my hero, zero” video was my favorite and I knew it worked perfectly with Kyle. Here is the video for you to watch for yourselves!
http://youtu.be/zxYsgRsNg2s
Kyle loved this video! He loves watching tv and he loves to dance so I was excited that he loved it! He immediately started smiling and after watching it once he wanted to watch 3 more times to see if he could memorize the words. After memorizing those, he wanted to watch other videos, and although he did not know what he was talking about, we watched the “conjuction, juction whats your fuction” video and he loved the song to that as well.
Some comments Kyle said:
“I wanna watch another”
“Can we dance to other ones?”
“Do you think I could be Zero Hero for Halloween?”
“I like math videos and songs to help me”
I also remember watching these videos but back in middle school we would watch them a few days before we took the History TAKS test. I think this is a good video for teaching students how important the number zero is. Also I think that since it is a song with cartoons students will pay more attention to it, and its catchy. Since its catchy its easy to memorize.
School House rocks videos are a great tool. There catchy lyrics make them a great tool for helping students memorize things. In my own experience, my middle school American History teacher showed us videos such as “We the people..” and “I’m just a Bill”. I still remember almost all of the words. I think maybe teachers haven’t used them that much anymore because they might feel that they are outdated. In my opinion though, they are classic.