Found at Genial Hearth: Latin Songs

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...

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!

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'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....

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,...

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...

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...

Accompany your music study with a reading of Lord Byron's Prometheus or Goethe's.

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,...

Betsy Hart's post on educating one's children: the goal is "Heaven, not Harvard" Why I Believe in Homeschooling by Tina Smith The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education Our 16-yo dd attended a Reggio-Emilia preschool and blossomed wonderfully. When we...