Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects

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mar52

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Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 3:09 PM

Phys Ed: We exercised to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFofqe26t-4

Typing, we banged on standard Royal Typewriters to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsNWlM3fWmI

If I still typed that way I'd just be posting last week's posts.

Also in Phys Ed we learned 4 beat dancing to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq0vx6_Ytq4

In Eglish we tore apart and analyzed the lines to: (There's a name for what we did, and I forget it, but never the song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My9I8q-iJCI

Metaphors, Similes, things like that.

Did any of you other Roadfooders out there learn by song?

Michael Hoffman Total Posts : 15924 Reward points : 0 Joined: 7/1/2000 Location: Gahanna, OH	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 3:19 PM I learned to swish my bushy tail to Grey Squirrel. Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! Swish your bushy tail! Put an nut between your toes. Wrinkle up your little nose! Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! Swish your bushy tail! <message edited by Michael Hoffman on Sun, 09/23/12 3:34 PM>

felix4067

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Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 3:35 PM

I learned cursive writing with Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. Not the Suite, but the full symphony. College was a series of Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Bach, depending on the subject. But other than our student teacher with Nutcracker, none of it was teacher-driven...apparently learning by music outside of music class was not a thing here.

mar52 Total Posts : 6865 Reward points : 0 Joined: 4/17/2005 Location: Marina del Rey, CA	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 4:06 PM I guess in my school... We got da beat! (Bushy Tail?)

kland01s Total Posts : 2799 Reward points : 0 Joined: 3/14/2003 Location: Fox River Valley, IL	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 5:23 PM I'm thinking old Mickey Mouse Club........e-n-c-y-c-l-o-p-d-i-a sung by Jimmy Cricket! I was maybe 14????

chewingthefat Total Posts : 5796 Reward points : 0 Joined: 11/22/2007 Location: Emmitsburg, Md.	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 5:47 PM In grade school it was the wrath of the Sisters of the Holy Cross that motivated me, in High School it was the fists of the Christian Brothers, in College, it was my Father's wrath that was a great motivation to learn...songs wern't in the mix, sorry Mar!

Michael Hoffman Total Posts : 15924 Reward points : 0 Joined: 7/1/2000 Location: Gahanna, OH	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 6:41 PM mar52 I guess in my school... We got da beat! (Bushy Tail?) Yeah. So?

mar52 Total Posts : 6865 Reward points : 0 Joined: 4/17/2005 Location: Marina del Rey, CA	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 7:31 PM You remembered the words.

Michael Hoffman Total Posts : 15924 Reward points : 0 Joined: 7/1/2000 Location: Gahanna, OH	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sun, 09/23/12 9:06 PM Of course. Who wouldn't? We're talking squirrels here.

CNW Total Posts : 159 Reward points : 0 Joined: 6/27/2004 Location: Overland Park, KS	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Mon, 09/24/12 12:43 AM I learned as much on Saturday mornings listening to Schoolhouse Rock as I did in school. I gave a copy of the CD to my sister-in-law a few years ago when she was homeschooling my niece and nephew.

FriedClamFanatic Total Posts : 1177 Reward points : 0 Joined: 7/14/2008 Location: west chester, PA	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Mon, 09/24/12 5:05 PM Aw.what can I say?...my favorite Elementary School Rhyme I still remember: I See London, I see France I see........NVM

SeamusD Total Posts : 864 Reward points : 0 Joined: 4/1/2008 Location: Syracuse, NY	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Tue, 09/25/12 11:15 AM The only school related song I remember is singing "School's Out" by Alice Cooper on the last day of elementary and middle school. Usually just the "no more pencils, no more books" part, as we ran screaming out of the building.

CCinNJ Total Posts : 6784 Reward points : 0 Joined: 7/24/2008 Location: Bayonne, NJ	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Fri, 10/5/12 11:07 PM Number of days in each month... Trenta giorni ha novembre con aprile giugno e settembre di ventotto ce n'è uno tutti gli altri ne hanno trentuno. It sings like a song. <message edited by CCinNJ on Fri, 10/5/12 11:09 PM>

ann peeples Total Posts : 7804 Reward points : 0 Joined: 5/21/2006 Location: West Allis, Wisconsin	Re:Songs you used in school to learn certain subjects - Sat, 10/6/12 9:33 AM You nailed it, Seamus.