One of the hard things about being D's mom is helping him with his schoolwork. I cannot quite put my finger on what his exact issues are, but he struggles. Another dilemma that I sometimes wrestle with is choice of music. As a fan of hip hop, I want to be able to share that with him, but as his mother, I want to shield him from a lot of the language, violence, sexism, etc. At least as long as I can.Enter Mr. Duey. He is a middle school teacher who has created a really amazing album of educational rap. And it's good! I heard an interview with him on the radio today, and I ordered 2 CDs tonight. One for us, and maybe the other one for D's school. Not sure yet, but I was just so impressed that I needed to buy an extra copy. I can't wait 'til it gets here!
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While you wait for your CDs to arrive, check out our educational rap as well! We spent 2007 quietly developing an initial library of four albums in math, science, language arts, and social studies, creating each song in four versions to help with learning. Three of the albums are now live in iTunes.
Enjoy,
Robbie Mitchell
Rhythm, Rhyme, Results
www.educationalrap.com
I want to hear it!
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