Schoolhouse Rock: The New Generation
I look back at Schoolhouse Rock with nostalgia. “Three is a Magic Number” was my favorite. “The Great American Melting Pot” was cool, too. But I never thought that I would use it in my own curriculum to educate my kids. Maybe it’s cheating, in a way. It’s television, not I, that it educating my kids directly. And, wow, for as much as I don’t want my kids watching television, Schoolhouse Rock is definitely appropriate television. Besides, it’s as edu-taining for me as it is for the kids.
So now my boys and girl gather in front of the TV, not too closely, of course, and learn about the USA – as we’ve seen America Rock about twelve dozen times. I also found some Multiplication Rock on YouTube. Both Kyle and Ty are great at reciting the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America… in their broken Toddlerspeak. What it all means, we’ll get to that later.
