19 New Flocabulary Videos

19 New Flocabulary Videos

What have we been up to this summer? Making videos, that's what! We've taken Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic American tale, The Scarlet Letter and turned it into song. We've animated every single one of our multiplication songs. (That's right. All of them.) We've added to our growing library of Word Up vocabulary videos for all grades, all while continuing The Week in Rap throughout the summer and preparing 20 new math songs to come your way in August. Yep, we're busy here at the Flocab HQ. But that's how we like it. If you'd like to watch all these new videos,…

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The Week In Vocab

The Week in Vocab

Review the Biggest Buzzwords of the Week! When you follow national and worldwide affairs, you get access to dead and then un-dead ex-leaders, policy changes, new technology and more. Each week, we highlight the top buzzwords or terms that your students might not have known or even heard until now. All these words are featured in the most recent edition of The Week in Rap. And once students beef up their vocab, the news will make a lot more sense. THIS WEEK contradict (verb) -- to say the opposite of a statement made my someone, or deny the truth of something…

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EdCamp And Flocabulary

EdCamp and Flocabulary

We want to sponsor your EdCamp! Flocabulary is proud to be a sponsor of EdCamp (un)conferences across the country. We strongly support EdCamp's mission to help educators learn together and share ideas, and we admire the energy of the conference organizers and participants. When a friend organizing EdCamp MSP (Minneapolis St-Paul) jokingly asked if we could whip up a rap for the event, we took him up on it. Voila, The EdCamp Rap: [jwplayer file=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/media/edcamp-media.mp3 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images/edcamp-image.jpg]  Check out the interactive lyrics, challenge questions and more.  So far, we've sponsored EdCamps in Louisiana, Citrus, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Oshkosh, Green Bay, New Jersey…

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The Week In Vocab

The Week in Vocab

Review the Biggest Buzzwords of the Week! When you follow national and worldwide affairs, you get access to royal celebrations, government bans, acclaimed sci-fi writers and more. Each week, we highlight the top buzzwords or terms that your students might not have known or even heard until now. All these words are featured in the most recent edition of The Week in Rap. And once students beef up their vocab, the news will make a lot more sense. THIS WEEK nanny state (noun) -- a term that shows a view that a government or its policies are overprotective or interfering too much…

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Let’s Talk About #SummerReading On June 7

Let’s Talk About #SummerReading on June 7

Summer is approaching. And we want to know: What are you reading? We're excited to partner with The New York Times Learning Network for their #summerreading celebration. Why the hashtag? Well it's a conversation that is happening on Twitter all about summer reading. We want you to share your reading choices, thoughts on how much to read and anything else. You can learn more about the discussion here. When you tweet, be sure to add #summerreading to the message so that other participants can see what you think. Follow @Flocabulary on Twitter to make sure that you catch our updates.…

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