Musical Mondays

This week we're studying Frédéric Chopin. We will be listening to his music, reading about his life, and completing some really cool notebooking pages that I got from www.notebooking.com. If you haven't checked out all of the notebooking pages they have available, you really should! There are so many awesome pages and ideas that I hardly know where to start.

We're also doing some notebooking using our frog eggs. It is now Day 4, and not only have the eggs all tripled in size (the interior brown dot), but now their moving! Just really fast jerking movements so far. Its just amazing how fast they change. They look completely different from day to day. At this rate they'll be frogs and ready to go back to their pond before we know it!

Oddly enough, even though this past Saturday was the official start of Spring, its snowing here today. Go figure... Obviously, somebody forgot to tell Old Man Winter that it was time to move on.

Musical Monday's

This week we are starting a new series to allow my kids to become familiar with various types of music, instruments and composers. Each week we will focus on one of these to study. This week we're studying Mozart. We began our day by listening to some of his work, watching a concerto performed live on You Tube, and reading a short biography about him. I'm always amazed by how much of the work from these composers is still used today. So many of the pieces are very familiar to us!