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Students paying 'rap' attention to lessons

By Angie Hutschreider angieh@newstribune.com

Published: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:38 AM CST

“It's the order of operations, ...ations, ...ations,” students in Joni Henderson's fourth-grade class sing. The students are not just singing, they are learning.

Taking a brief break, they rearrange the standing order and sing about possessive nouns.

“I know what possessive means,” they sing and dance to the beat of Mariah Carey's “Obsessed.”

For nearly the last year, Henderson has been incorporating song into her lessons on possessive nouns, verbs and the mathematical order of operations.

The Moreau Heights Elementary School class has performed for each other and for Superintendent Bryan Mitchell. The class' performances are also posted on TeacherTube, a Web site much like YouTube.

Henderson uses the songs to help teach students sometimes hard-tograsp concepts.

“They do catch on - they do seem to grasp the ideas so much faster,” she said.

She started the program after the 2008 elections, and seeing Ron Clark's students from the Ron Clark Academy perform “Vote However You Like.” That video explained the Democratic and Republican issues in an understandable way for elementary school students.

At the time, Henderson's class performed the selection on Election Day 2008.

“I wish I had recorded it; it was amazing,” she said.

Students in debate class at the Ron Clark Academy created a song about the 2008 U.S. presidential election, “Vote However You Like,” to the same beat and melody of “Whatever You Like” by T.I. A performance of the song by students was posted on the Internet and drew national attention. The video has now been viewed more than two million times.


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