Joseph Haydn {Composer Study - Poppins Book Nook}

This months theme for the Poppins Book Nook is Composer Study. There are so many wonderful resources available today to make studying the composers a pleasure and and an adventure.  Great Musicians Series from Zeezok Publishing is one of my all time favourite living history resources for introducing famous musicians to my students.

This books are 9 x 7 inches in size and have beautiful line drawings throughout.  They are biographical stories about composers. They share a little background about what's happening in the composers life and then insert the piano music for the piece of music being discussed along with a reference to the companion CD.

We use the companion CD's and it's Nathaniel's job to play the correct track at the moment the piece is introduced. The stories are well written and twaddle free.


Book we used

•  Joseph Haydn the Merry Little Peasant. You can see/hear a sample on YouTube
• Companion CD - Haydn 

On YouTube

• 105 of Joseph Haydn Symphonies with beautiful paintings.
• The Creation in English by Joseph Haydn - his masterpiece, performed by the MIT choir
• Franz Joseph Haydn BBC Documentary
  Part 1 of 5
  Part 2 of 5
  Part 3 of 5
  Part 4 of 5
  Part 5 of 5
• Haydn for KIDS!  
• Franz Joseph Haydn: The Story of the Choir Boy who Became a Great Composer  
• Stories of the Great Composers: Haydn (Disneyland Records, 1961)  

 On the WWW

•  July Composer Study: Joseph Haydn
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 
• Hey Kids, Meet Franz Joseph Haydn 
• Famous Musicians 
• (Sample) Famous Composers Notebooking Pages 
• Ultimate Guide to Composer Study 
• FREE Music Composer Notebook Pages!! 
• Composer Notebooking Page 

On Pinterest

•  Composer Study
• Music composer 

FREE for you

Jill from over at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom has made this FREE Poppins Book Nook pack for you.

• An official interactive Poppins Book Nook bookmark for this month’s theme
• This month’s Passport pages to add to your lap book
• Several lap book elements centered around The Laboratory.
• Reading response writing prompt

We've enjoyed getting back into Composer Study here and would like to encourage you to explore this wonderful genre of music.

What are your favourite composer study books ? Link up and share your resources with the Poppins Book Nook this month.

In August we will be exploring books that were made into movies.

Blessings
Chareen

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It's new in our school . . .

Last week I shared our proposed curriculum for the year ahead. It was so encouraging to write out a list of our year ahead and plan.

This year there are four new things we are adding to the mix. My aim is to add more Fine Arts study to our weekly rhythm.

I learnt the hard way last year not to add it all into the mix at once or it soon gets left on the sidelines and forgotten.  My aim this year is to slowly add in one thing at a time.  We follow a five week learning cycle (four weeks school one week rest).  I will be adding music appreciation / study in cycle two and then Nature Journaling in cycle three.

SQUILT

A few months back Mary over at Homegrown Learners released her first eBook SQUILT.  I am really excited about this product because it's written for every day mom's at home who have no classical training or personal understanding of the classical genre. SQUILT stands for Super Quiet UnInterrupted Listening Time.

Volume 1 covers composers/music from the Baroque era. Over the course of working through SQUILT we will be learning about 5 types of instruments, dynamic, rhythm, and tempo.  There are plenty of links sprinkled through out the eBook to help you explore the music more fully.

It also contains note booking pages for you to print and use.

World's Greatest Composers

This unit study has been compiled by Erica over at Confessions of a Homeschooler.  We will be using the parts of this that coincide with the composers from SQUILT Vol I.

Each composer covered has approximately 10 lessons available in it.  Once we have completed SQUILT we shall finish the balance of the year using this and compiling a lapbook covering The Orchestra and Composers.

This study uses the books by Mike Venezia to complete the study.  I am looking forward to completing this study.

You can see a few pictures of the completed lap pack over at Erica's online store. There is also a full list of all the composers covered in the pack.

Classical Composers Monthly

I Have a little bit of a love affair with online resources and sometime spend too much time on YouTube trying to find just the right clip to enhance our learning.

I discovered this gem of a site via Pinterest and have purchased a couple of volumes.  Each volume covers 12 composers. There are currently three volumes available.

For each composer you are supplied with a few YouTube clips, links to FREE resources, down loadable music links, Fun activities and notebook printables.  You can see a FREE sample of a study: George Fridric Handel.

Each Volume is purchased separately for $14.95 and you have lifetime access to the resource purchased.

ARTIST Study
I really would like to settle down and complete Vol I of The World's Greatest Artists this year.  I had so many good intentions but alas they never came to pass last year.
Recently Monet's Garden came to Melbourne which inspired some in depth artist studies.  Sir N and I had such a wonderful time learning together that I am really keen to keep going.

We explored the life and work of Claude Monet and did some great art following his style.

This unit study is available for FREE from Confession of a Homeschooler.

Nature Journal

I have a total love affair with the very idea of Nature Journaling after reading Karen Andreola's chapter on Nature Journaling in the Charlotte Mason Companion.

So much so in fact that I collected a whole page of resources and a stack of books (Nature Journals, Keeping a Nature Journal  and The Decorated Journal ) to help me get started.

Well this year is going to be the year that I take the plunge. Our books are purchased and the digital camera is ready.  We will wait about a month by then spring should have arrived and we will take the plunge and attempt to journal our way through nature...I will keep you posted.

These are a few new resources to me.  I would love to hear what you are using that is new to you.

Blessings
Chareen

This week

• Bernadette   A Room of My Own
• Julie  Our Schoolroom - Highhill Education
• Savannah shares Learning Nook
• Lucinda  5 Steps to an Organised Homeschool Space 
• Nicole  Our Home: A Training Ground

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Day 5 - Fine Arts

Welcome to Day 4 of the Schoolhouse Review Crew 5 days of ... blog hop.

The theme for my 5 days is Curriculum Choices. My aim is not to list every single resource out there (That in itself would be almost impossible as the Internet is an ever changing place). My aim is to give you some ideas to start you off.

Today's theme is Fine Arts.
I first discovered fine arts when I started reading Karen Andreola's book: A Charlotte Mason Companion.  I was greatly intrigued with the concept of listening to great composers and studying the masters in art.

What is Fine Art

Definition of FINE ART

1. art (as painting, sculpture, or music) concerned primarily with the creation of beautiful objects —usually used in plural b : objects of fine art 
2. an activity requiring a fine skill

Resources
Blogs

• Barb over at Harmony Fine Arts
• Jimmie from Jimmie's Collage.
  Artist Study
  Composer Study
• Nadene over at Practical Pages.
  Famous Musicians
  Famous Artisits  
  Hymn Study
• Erica over at Confessions of a Homeschooler
  World's Greatest Artists 
  Music
• Mary over at Home Grown Learners 
  SQUILT

Curriculum
Homegrown Learners

Confessions of a Homeschooler

Homeschool in the Woods

Classical Composers Monthly

Pinterest

• Artists Study
• Composer Study
• Music

This area of homeschooling is relatively new to me and I'm really keen to know of any other curriculum and or bloggers you recommend.

Blessings
Chareen

 So Far in the series

1. Geography 
2. History
3. Science
4. Math 

 

Be sure to hop on over to the crew blog to read more posts from this series

Tuesdays Treasure - Handel: At the Court of Kings

This week ...

Handel: At the Court of Kings

• Format: Paper back
• Number of Pages: 166 
• Vendor:Zeezook 
• Publication Date: 
• ISBN 10: 1933573031 
• ISBN 13: 9781933573038 
• Author Opal Wheeler 
• Illustrator:Mary Greenwalt 

We have been wanting to start composer study and last week a friend of mine loaned me Handel at the Court of Kings.  This book is such a delight to read and I am pleased to find a living book to read out loud with Sir N.  This book is twaddle free and illustrated with beautiful line drawings.

My friend originally purchased this from Vision Forum where you can purchase the collection (consisting of a paperback, CD and Study Guide) sadly they are discontinuing this product.

I am looking forward to reading the other books in the series (available from The Book Depository)

• Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff 
• Joseph Haydn: The Merry Little Peasant 
• Sebastian Bach: The Boy from Thuringia 
• Mozart the Wonder Boy 
• Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells 
• Paganini, Master of Strings  
• Adventures of Richard Wagner 
• Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends
• The Story of Peter Tchaikovsky

Blessings

 Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures.  I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books out there hiding on shelves so I invite you to blog about a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library and add your post