For starters, the songs suck. They’re not catchy in the least, awful rhythm, horrible lyrics (Thursday Circle Pie, Tuesday Soup). And they’re either way too long or way too short. Like the Hello Song is literally a whole 5 seconds long…
Don’t get me started on the low budget videos. We’re currently doing the third grade unit on colors. In the “let’s watch how foreigners around the world draw rainbows!” activity, they clearly forgot to tell the Chinese girl to say her lines, but couldn’t afford to do another take, so they just dubbed it in and had her communicate through telekinesis….
Or just teaching flat out bad language “It rains cats and dogs!”
It is astonishing that these books still continue to be standard…
by Micuul