Thursday, February 9, 2012
Posted by Cindy on September 29, 2009
Vivaldi’s music and story have made for wonderful studies this month! We’re off to a more contemporary composer, George Gershwin, for the month of October.
Antonio Vivaldi
Book We Read
CD’s We Listened To
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Posted by Cindy on September 3, 2008
Fine Arts Tuesday was another hit this week. I don’t think any of us are going to get tired of it anytime soon!
Early morning nature study was a summer scavenger hunt made by Amanda at Hearts and Trees. Thanks, Amanda! We were able to check off everything except a ladybug. 
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Art and classical music were combined this week. I’ve done this activity with the kiddos before, but was reminded about it at Barb’s previous blog earlier in the summer. It’s a fun way to really listen to classical music. Basically, you play a piece and let the children use whatever art medium they like to express the feelings evoked in the music. We chose to use watercolors and listen to several compositions from Beethoven. The kids did some pieces of art using lines only - long, fat lines that swirled for slow parts of the music and happy colored, choppy splotches when the music picked up the pace. Other times, they painted pictures that showed the feeling of the music. My favorite of these was Caleb’s picture below. The blurs are supposed to be Tom and Jerry in the middle of a chase! )
Finally, tea time was later in the day than usual, so we decided to have a muffin tin tea/lunch. This type of lunch isn’t just for wee ones – even my hubby took part in the fun!
Oh, I almost forgot – our Book of the Month Club started this week, too. Mrs. Lisa gave each of the children a cloth bag to decorate as a kickoff craft.
