Teachers are always under immense pressure to reinvent their style and make it more relevant and interesting for their students to get into it. And what better way to do it than making them learn through the age-old tested formula of singing rhymes?
But this Brooklyn based educator, made sure that she wasn’t just creating a rhyme, but also keeping it fresh and current as she made her students sing along with a ‘Geography-version’ of Cardi Bi’s Billboard smash hit, ‘Bodak Yellow’
Erica Buddington, the 6th grade geography teacher from Capital Prep Harlem took on the #3 hit by Cardi B and recorded the session of her students learning and having a ball at the same time.
Sharing the video on her Twitter account, Buddington wrote, “Rapped a map version of #BodakYellow for my babies today.”
Watch the below below:
Rapped a map version of #BodakYellow for my babies today. pic.twitter.com/W9iJdzTtdP— Erica B. (@ericabuddington) August 25, 2017
Erica’s version became so popular that the entire school caught up with it as more teachers started using it on their classes.
Students received the lyrics yesterday at the end of class. They knew the entire song by this morning.— Erica B. (@ericabuddington) August 25, 2017
Today during dismissal, the entire school was singing this version.— Erica B. (@ericabuddington) August 25, 2017
Buddington also went ahead and shared the lyrics to her version:
For the folks that are asking for the lyrics. Educators we should always share the wealth. #culturallyrelevantteaching pic.twitter.com/Ecys9k7D27— Erica B. (@ericabuddington) August 25, 2017
What a great way to make kids learn!
Listen to Cardi B’s insanely catchy original below:
Thoughts?