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Last school year, I posted HERE about my music study plan since my oldest daughter stopped taking piano lessons.  I was excited to find some free notebooking pages to use along with our studies this year as we go through the historical periods of music.  Classics for Kids allows you to go through the composers by period to get a sense of what the music during that time was like. Here is a link to the great and FREE :) notebooking pages that I found: HERE .  The site is practicalpages.wordpress.com I like the composer pages as well as the music appreciation pages.  I suspect I will use a combination of the two over the next two years in our music studies!  I am going to have my kids listen to the talks on Classics For Kids and take notes.  There is also a short printable biography for each composer on that site that you could print instead.

My oldest daughter stopped taking piano lessons in October, so I realized yesterday that I needed to have a better plan for music for her for the rest of the year.  I sat down this morning and started forming  a plan.  My younger kids are going to do these lessons with her even though they are both currently studying instruments. So, I'm putting together a plan.  First we're going to study the instruments in the orchestra.  Then, we're going to look at the periods of music history and then finally composers.  We're going to do a lesson every Friday am or every other Friday for 30-60 minutes.  I've found some awesome free resources online that have helped me put together a whole notebook.  Here's what I've found... We are going to start with the Orchestra .  Here's our instrument pages: http://www.tlsbooks.com/mymusicalinstrumentbookb.pdf  are the first pages.  I'm using the cover page and then the first page from here:  h...

Our children have taken piano lessons each year that I've been homeschooling, so that has been their music curriculum.  But, yesterday I brainstormed with a friend of mine ideas for music this year for her kids in grades 1 and 2. Here was my idea: Make a composer notebook. Study one composer a week.         1.  For each composer, read a biography on  http://www.classicsforkids.com/  or  http://makingmusicfun.net/htm/mmf_music_library_meet_the_composer_index.htm   These are very brief.  Then, find a past episode of  Classics for Kids  on the composer to listen to with your children. 2.   Making Music Fun  has a composer job application. You could also make your own if there are other details you want your children to record. 3.  There are coloring pages dot to dots and word search worksheets for the composers on Making Music Fun.           4.  Look at this page for other...