Allergy-Free Birthday Cake, Updated with an Allergy-Free Flour Formula
from my old baking blog: Not a perfect recipe yet, still working on it, but getting close and the kids scarfed it up, especially drizzled with some non-dairy chocolate syrup. cooking spray, oil or shortening for greasing pan alternative flour for flouring pan (I used...
In the Thick of Advent
How's your Advent going? Ours is still pretty tame, much tamer than it has been in years past. There is something to be said about getting oneself organized enough BEFORE the holiday rush. I'll have to make a resolution list about the holidays soon, but first on that...
The Plan for Advent and Christmas
Image: Tim Mossholder Scripture Readings for Jesse Tree Advent Wreath Prayer December 2, First Sunday of Advent Purple Tablecloth, Purple Ornaments Jesse Tree Ornament 5 - camel / Abraham December 3 St. Francis Xavier - Read aloud from Saints and Feast Days Trace Paul...
Latin Songs
Found at Genial Hearth: Latin Songs
Making Lemonade (Latin Rap)
The morning started out with cranky kids and a cranky mom -- I woke up late and we didn't get to attend Mass, then had several distractions early on. We started out Latin with not the best of attitudes/behaviors. Migi was up to his old tricks, yelling out the...
Donate Rice, Learn Vocabulary
I just donated 2030 grains of rice, and learned some new words in the process! Warning: it's so much fun, and highly addictive!! Free Rice Thank you, Irene!
More Haydn Ideas: Food
Haydn was one of the most prolific composers in classical music. I really like his lighthearted look at life -- it shows in his music. He got into much mischief as a boy and it doesn't look like he outgrew it (which means there's hope for my mischievous kids:)). In...
Bella Needs Our/Your Help
Bella's doing great right now, but it needs you, it needs me, it needs all of us. This is one small step towards changing Hollywood, but it can turn to a big one, with our help. If it's showing at a theater need you, please watch it! We're going this weekend or next....
November Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Haydn Activity Sheet from Classics for Kids Listen to Haydn's Farewell Symphony and read The Farewell Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza Listen to Haydn's Concerto in D Major for Cello and Orchestra and read Claude Clement's The Voice of the Wood; other related...
October Music Study: Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt
This week we are listening to Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt. Though I am not particularly enamored of the Peer Gynt story, I have always loved the music! Some ideas to enjoy Peer Gynt: Start out your morning by playing "Morning". Have the kids imagine a sunrise scene,...
October Music Study: Music Inspired by Shakespeare
This week we're listening to Mendelssohn's incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream". There are many Shakespeare-inspired or Shakespeare-related music you can listen to if you don't have this particular album. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, for instance, or...
Teaching Music: Sight Reading Chef
I just a found a really nifty online helper that generates sight reading sheets. For those of you teaching your kids music at home, this is a great tool I've noticed my kids need this badly, as do I. And while I could write my own sight-reading sheets, I appreciate...
3-BR, 2-Bath Condo in St. Louis, opposite St. Louis Cathedral Basilica
I'm helping my mom with their condo, so here's the listing. Please forward to anyone you think might be interested -- esp. if you happen to know med students and residents at WUMC. (Note: this is from the original ad so pardon me, it doesn't read like a regular...
October Music Study: Poetry Ideas
Accompany your music study with a reading of Lord Byron's Prometheus or Goethe's.
October Music: For the Young Ones
I'm adding one more resource that may be more useful for those with really young children and are not ready to go into an intensive composer-literature study. Music Education Madness has several suggestions for using literature while teaching music at the same time,...