RE: about logo and mw ex

["Gary McCallister" <mccallis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just posted the poem for someone else so it should be popping up soon.  You are
welcome to use it.  I am planning on releasing the song on a CD I am planning
for next year, so it is copyrighted, but you may use it as you please in your
classroom instruction.  Just give me credit.  ;-)

Gary McCallister

http://www.onemanmormonbluesband.com
semi-serious and quasi-comic music for the non-disciminating consumer

>>> IHilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/26/06 1:16 PM >>>
Gary ,
 I would love this poem. I have 1-6th grades I teach Computer Lab to and
need any kind of info for ever level. This has been my struggle is
trying to change the level of learning for many different ages. The poem
sounds so great! You are very good at what you do....Great ideas I love
them...I wish I was there for your class at Education Week. 
Iris

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I have taught third graders Logo in the past (and am gearing up for
another round in about a month).  I usually start out with a little song
I wrote called "Seeds".  This song talks about how some seeds grow in
the ground and some in my mind.  I then ask them how could something
grow in their mind, and we talk about that a little bit.  

Then I ask them how growing things is like creativity (art, music,
dance, sports).  We discuss that issue also.  Then I tell them we are
going to plant some seeds in their mind.  If they take care of the
garden they are going to grow things in their mind: thing like language
(turtle-talk),art, music, mathematics, computers, design, story-telling,
animation, computer games and and even into robotics.  

This provides a theme that I try to visit each period by talking about
that days "seed".  The first seed I usually teach is forward-backward
some distance, and right-left some degree, if there is time.  I usually
even end the lessons (whether that be a week, a semester, or a year)with
a graduation; a show and tell of what they have grown, and I give them
all a copy of the recorded song. 
You are welcome to use the song as a poem if you want, just recognize
the source as it is copyrighted.  I won't inflict this on the group.
Write me if you'd like to see it.  

As we go along I try to point out each day why what we are learning is
important, but I think it is more important to make it applicable to
their world and what they want to accomplish than to explain why it is
important in the grown up world.  And I have found most kids want to
create.  




Gary McCallister

http://www.onemanmormonbluesband.com 
semi-serious and quasi-comic music for the non-disciminating consumer