All In One Place
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For awhile I was great about sharing what we were doing in Music Together and at Journey Montessori on here weekly. I was also sharing homeschooling ideas on a homeschool blog for families in our Classical Conversations group. At some point I began to sorely neglect all things blogging. I think it will be easier to keep up with it if I share it all in one place.
The name of the blog will stay the same because music doesn't stop when we walk out of the music classroom. The homeschool curriculum we have chosen teaches history, science, math, timeline, English grammar, and Latin all to music. I'm continually amazed at how quickly my children are able to memorize facts, dates, places, and translations simply by singing them. I'm so glad we gave them a good musical foundation at an early age so they can now use their ability to sing and keep a beat to aid in learning anything. If you have not given your child a good musical foundation to build on yet its OK!
Music is an amazing gift we are all given. Some people are born with slightly higher musical ability, but we all have musical ability. The ability to understand and make music can be shown on a bell curve. This means that only a few people have an exceptionally high or low ability. Most of us are perfectly able, we just have to be taught. I've found the same is true with math and science, I'm not as bad as I though, I just needed to be taught properly! You are never too old to learn the basic musical concepts of pitch and rhythm, and once you have those concepts down you can use those abilities to aid in learning so many other subjects. My daughters are using duple meter to learn trotting in their horseback riding lessons right now.
I will tag my future posts with Music Together, Journey Montessori, or Classical Conversations. These are the three programs I teach with/for. Below is a brief description of each so you can read more about each program if you would like.
Music Together is an early childhood parent/child music class for children ages birth-5 and the adults who take care of them (Mommy, Daddy, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents, Nanny's, etc). Children learn musical concepts through playing with their adults. They are exposed to a huge variety of meters and tonalities so they can fully develop tonal and rhythmic ability. A child can reach basic music competence (singing full songs in tune and keeping a steady beat by themselves) as early as age three, but there is no set age. If adults have not been properly exposed to music they may still be working on reaching basic music competence, this is were I am with math!
I teach with the Music Together of Charlotte group. I am blessed to work with such a talented group of music teachers!
Journey Montessori is an amazing preschool for three and four year old children in Charlotte. I have been blessed to be their music teacher since they opened. I teach one music class a week to the 20 preschool children enrolled there. We work on basic music skills in the first semester, how to sing properly and how to keep a steady beat in our bodies and on non-pitched percussion instruments, through lots of fun songs from around the world. In the second semester we begin more complex skills of putting rhythms in our bodies, we explore musical instruments and their families, and learn Peter and the Wolf or Carnival of the Animals songs. The children accomplished learning how to sing a simple African song in two parts in December!
Classical Converstaions is a private Christian home-school group for children age 4 through high-school. Students go to school one day a week and a tutor presents the material to be learned at home that week. Elementary students also enjoy doing science experiments, art projects, playing music and review games together during their school day. I am a tutor for the abecedarian class in the Fort Mill-Regent Park group. Abecedarian means new learners, I have 4, 5 and 6 year old students in my class. Having a good, set curriculum for my children and being able to go to school once a week with other amazing homeschool families is a wonderful experience for our family. We love our classmates and my husband and I have learned so much ourselves in teaching our children!
The name of the blog will stay the same because music doesn't stop when we walk out of the music classroom. The homeschool curriculum we have chosen teaches history, science, math, timeline, English grammar, and Latin all to music. I'm continually amazed at how quickly my children are able to memorize facts, dates, places, and translations simply by singing them. I'm so glad we gave them a good musical foundation at an early age so they can now use their ability to sing and keep a beat to aid in learning anything. If you have not given your child a good musical foundation to build on yet its OK!
Music is an amazing gift we are all given. Some people are born with slightly higher musical ability, but we all have musical ability. The ability to understand and make music can be shown on a bell curve. This means that only a few people have an exceptionally high or low ability. Most of us are perfectly able, we just have to be taught. I've found the same is true with math and science, I'm not as bad as I though, I just needed to be taught properly! You are never too old to learn the basic musical concepts of pitch and rhythm, and once you have those concepts down you can use those abilities to aid in learning so many other subjects. My daughters are using duple meter to learn trotting in their horseback riding lessons right now.
I will tag my future posts with Music Together, Journey Montessori, or Classical Conversations. These are the three programs I teach with/for. Below is a brief description of each so you can read more about each program if you would like.
Music Together is an early childhood parent/child music class for children ages birth-5 and the adults who take care of them (Mommy, Daddy, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents, Nanny's, etc). Children learn musical concepts through playing with their adults. They are exposed to a huge variety of meters and tonalities so they can fully develop tonal and rhythmic ability. A child can reach basic music competence (singing full songs in tune and keeping a steady beat by themselves) as early as age three, but there is no set age. If adults have not been properly exposed to music they may still be working on reaching basic music competence, this is were I am with math!
I teach with the Music Together of Charlotte group. I am blessed to work with such a talented group of music teachers!
Journey Montessori is an amazing preschool for three and four year old children in Charlotte. I have been blessed to be their music teacher since they opened. I teach one music class a week to the 20 preschool children enrolled there. We work on basic music skills in the first semester, how to sing properly and how to keep a steady beat in our bodies and on non-pitched percussion instruments, through lots of fun songs from around the world. In the second semester we begin more complex skills of putting rhythms in our bodies, we explore musical instruments and their families, and learn Peter and the Wolf or Carnival of the Animals songs. The children accomplished learning how to sing a simple African song in two parts in December!
Classical Converstaions is a private Christian home-school group for children age 4 through high-school. Students go to school one day a week and a tutor presents the material to be learned at home that week. Elementary students also enjoy doing science experiments, art projects, playing music and review games together during their school day. I am a tutor for the abecedarian class in the Fort Mill-Regent Park group. Abecedarian means new learners, I have 4, 5 and 6 year old students in my class. Having a good, set curriculum for my children and being able to go to school once a week with other amazing homeschool families is a wonderful experience for our family. We love our classmates and my husband and I have learned so much ourselves in teaching our children!
