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mama2many
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Posted: June 15 2011 at 10:24am \| IP Logged

OK, I'm taking baby steps here to get to get deep into CM learning w/o too much suffering on the part of myself or my husband (we both went to public school)
Now, do you do do music and art at the same time? DO you alternate music in one month, and art in another??
And are there free resources out there, as to not shock hubby's poor wallet?

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Posted: June 15 2011 at 1:15pm \| IP Logged

Your question reminded me of one of my favorite picture and music resources for beginners, Can You Hear It? published by the metropolitan museum of art.

It is a book and CD set which matches music and artwork. The questions in the book are focused on the music but information is given for both.

I've found that the combination works well for restless young children.

On a more general note, I've tended to include picture study with religion and language arts starting with Museum ABC's and images corresponding to the bible and mysteries - lots of artwork on line. Then we move to the Art-Literature Readers and Hillside language arts materials. Around grade four or so I start adding art history to our history studies (chc and seton provide our core texts). I've also found quite a few good picture study books at our local library both in the picture book section and in the art history section.

Our music studies are not as tied into our general curriculum with the unfortunate result that they are more likely to fall by the wayside. Ideally we'd spend some time weekly on this as well.

We really enjoy the Making Music Praying Twice program for the younger children (eight and under) as it's quite complete particularly with the extra music appreciation resources on their website but it is pricy and requires quite a bit of parental involvement.

A nice free resource for music appreciation can be found at www.classicsforkids.com. They provide weekly shows(or Podcasts) complete with activities and worksheets if desired. I've normally been able to find more music at our local library to go along with the
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Posted: June 15 2011 at 3:35pm \| IP Logged

If you're asking about art and music appreciation (rather than drawing or playing piano), then one of the wonderful things about Charlotte Mason's suggestions is that they are actually very simple and can be done quite inexpensively.

The basics: each term, choose one composer and one artist to study. Go to the library and get a oversized book with a good selection of large prints by the artist and one CD by the composer. (If your library isn't good about stocking these kinds of resources, you can look online.) At the beginning of the term, you can read a short biography of the artist and the composer to the children.

Then, for music: listen to the CD during breakfast/dinner/drawing time--whenever works best for your family.

For art: once a week, have the children do a CM-style picture study of one of the paintings (have them look at it very carefully and narrate back what they can). You can hang them up around the house so that the children can view them at their leisure afterward.

The goal is for the children to become so familiar with the artwork/music that they develop true relationships with them. No curriculum needed!

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