Figurative Language Feast: Flocab’s Custom Rap Contest

Figurative Language Feast: Flocab’s Custom Rap Contest

This November, we found ourselves dreaming about our Thanksgiving favorites: turkey, mac and cheese, sweet potato pie, stuffing. And it got us thinking: love for these feasting foods could be a source of powerful poetic inspiration for all of our rhyme-loving Flocab fans. So we asked you - teachers and students in our community - to take part in festive lessons on writing academic rhymes. We wanted see what savory raps you could cook up, with as much figurative language baked in as possible (all puns intended). And write you did. We had so much fun reading the many inventive…

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Press Release: Flocabulary Raps Top 10 Reasons To Code For Computer Science Education Week

Press Release: Flocabulary Raps Top 10 Reasons to Code for Computer Science Education Week

Brooklyn, N.Y., December 2, 2014 - “Coders change the world when they’re puttin' in the work.” It’s just one of many reasons to code, according to Flocabulary’s newest educational hip-hop video. In time for this year’s Computer Science Education Week, Flocabulary announces a free video highlighting the top ten reasons to code to engage students in computer science. Computer Science Education Week takes place this year December 8-14, and is an initiative led by Code.org to encourage students to become interested in computer science. With “Top Ten Reasons to Code,” Flocabulary hopes to contribute to the movement of making coding…

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Retell The News

Retell the News

Every week, our Week in Rap Shout-Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Here at Flocabulary, we put the news into song every week. News articles are a great way to learn about current events in detail, but other formats can make the big picture easier to understand. For this week’s contest, we challenged you to retell a news story in a different form of media. A comic strip, an infographic, a video—any format that can tell the story.

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