We are so proud to release our web series today.
“Food Calculator” features the story of three Alphabet Rockers (Kaitlin McGaw, Stefanie Liang Chung, and Tommy Shepherd, Jr.) at snack time, determining which foods are healthy to eat! The “food calculator” helps them evaluate whether a food choice is healthy or not. The episode concludes with a music video with the Alphabet Rockers hit song with tips like “subtract the soda, add the water!” Get out your food calculators, your breaker moves, and your menu for your next family snack… and SHARE!
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Food Calculator on iTunes: http://bit.ly/1E3jc1T
For classrooms: Use this video as a brain break! You can sort between healthy and unhealthy foods (sorting, math), brainstorm healthy foods from A to Z (literacy), or even make your own food calculators. See here for more ideas.
For families: Bring out your food calculators at the dinner table! Don’t be surprised if you make different choices yourselves…
CREDITS:
WEB SERIES DIRECTOR: Julio Salcedo
EPISODE DIRECTOR: Lisa Boghosian
WRITERS: Kaitlin McGaw, Tommy James Shepherd, Jr., Stefanie Liang Chung
CAMERA: Mia Nakano, Mike Lee, Cody Williams
EDITORS: Gavin Min, Julio Salcedo
SPECIAL FX, BUMPER: Julio Salcedo
ILLUSTRATION: Sean Talley
HAIR/MAKE-UP: Beth Trifilo
LOCATION: KDOL Studios, Oakland and Safeway, San Francisco
MUSIC (Skit, Bumper): Burke Trieschmann
MUSIC (Video): Alphabet Rockers. Written by Kaitlin McGaw, Tommy Shepherd, and Producer Jason Villaroman
FUNDERS: Kickstarter Support
ABOUT ALPHABET ROCKERS
Alphabet Rockers, a “Kids Music Icon” [Red Tricycle], perform 70 concerts a year for families and kids with positive messages, learning outcomes, and hip hop grooves. Highlights include headlining kids music festivals Kindiecomm (Philadelphia) and Kindiefest (NYC), and opening at The Fillmore for OzoKidz (SF). Alphabet Rockers content pairs to educational goals including literacy, nutrition, math and science, and the music makes you dance, sing and feel like a rockstar. Download their multiple award-winning CDs, 5-star iPhone app, and bring them to your community for a theatrical assembly or K-5 arts curriculum. This is a Bay Area family treasure – combining community, hip hop, and education, and reflecting the future of our children.
The next two episodes will be released in March and April, 2015.
