Here are our attempts at nativity silhouettes as we listened to Handel’s “Messiah”.

Thanks to the ladies at the CM Artist Study group, I’ve found a wonderful site for various nativity scenes that we’ll use for art study this month.

Each week, we’ll observe ALL of the paintings noticing different things each time like:

• realism

• colors

• feelings

• which ones capture the reverence best, or the joy best, etc

• the number of people

• who is consistently in each painting and why

• what style pleases them most

• what style pleases them least

Since we’re working on a daily scrapbook page to go along with the Names of Jesus unit and we’re frequently crafting this month, I doubt we’ll do any additional art besides the picture study.

Our composer of the month is – who else – George Frederick Handel.  And we’ll be listening to – what else -the “Messiah”.

The biography will come mostly from Classics for Kids, and I may choose an activity or two from Cindy Downes free unit.

As for the “Messiah”, here is a nice explanation of the musical story.  We own the “Messiah” on CD, but you can listen to parts of it online here.