Lessons and Ideas

Flocab had a great time last week meeting librarians at this year's Texas Library Association (TLA) conference. We learned a lot about the many duties of library media specialists! We want to celebrate their hard work, so we're writing a new song all about what they do. But for now, we'll let librarian Amy Fuller of Chapa Middle School (TX) explain what librarians do (and don't do!), in her own words: We recommend the perfect book for any and every reader. We facilitate book clubs. We give book talks. We host author visits. We teach research skills. We assist students with…

[jwplayer file=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/media/pemdas-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images/pemdas-image.jpg] Flocabulary's Order of Operations song is one way to teach math literacy. When students sit down for their high-stakes math test and open up their standardized testing packet, they won't be staring at a list of numbers that they need to robotically compute. They be seeing 100 multiplication problems to rattle off answers for. To succeed on math tests, they need to read. Students need math literacy. Math literacy traditionally refers to the ability to apply math skills to real-world situations: paying a tip, paying taxes, trying to pay as little as possible for a phone plan.…

From time to time, and to our great delight, we receive excited emails from Flocab teachers all over the country. They are teachers who love Flocabulary so much, they just can't keep it to themselves. And far better than making us feel warm and fuzzy inside (which isn't so bad...), these teachers are impacting students in amazing ways. So we wanted to share their ideas with the entire community and help everyone use Flocabulary in more empowering ways! Leah, a teacher from Brunswick, GA, wrote us earlier this month, and kindly agreed to let us share her experience. Here is…

What better day of the year to celebrate 3.14 than on March 14? Today we celebrate the number pi (π), a mathematical constant which we use to calculate the area and circumference of a circle. Pi represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. But don't let the technical jargon fool you; pi knows how to have fun. To prove it, we made a brand new Circles Video! [jwplayer file=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/media/circles-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images/circles-image.jpg]After you rock out to "All You Need is Pi and the Radius", check out these other great videos we found: Pi Day Domino Spiral - A time-lapse…