3 posts tagged “music”

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Einekleinenachtmusik

Wolfgang Amadaus Mozart

I've been wanting to get one of these for the girls because they're so interested in music. One day, I walked into their bedroom and they had found the ukelele I had hidden (because I hate the sound!) and had set up a bunch of buckets and a little stool. A had even taken the base to her music stand and stuck a metal can on it as a cymbal and they were using chopsticks to play their improvised drumset. It was so cute! But I got this little number from Walmart (which, I don't usually shop at on principle, but I had been to three other stores looking for something else and so was at Walmart to see if I can find it there.) Both A and S take violin, although A is begging to take piano and guitar and now, drums too. But I'm limiting her to one music lesson at a time because she's only 6 and I prefer not to overschedule my kids. As it is, she's going with violin, tae kwon do, and starting swimming next week. Violin is three days a week, tae kwon do is two days and swimming thankfully is only one, but it's an awful lot when you're homeschooling another one. Yes. I said it. Homeschooling. For now. Thankfully S starts preschool next week too, but since it's only at the park district, I don't hold out much hope for the academic aspects. But I feel it's important she learn some structure and socialize and play with other kids her age. So I will continue to homeschool her until she begins kindergarten, which won't be till the fall of 2008. She also takes violin, but a private lesson so only once a week and she, too, will begin swimming classes next week.

She's very interested in learning and asks for "homework" all the time. So I've enrolled her in a great reading program called Headsprout.  She does this program (while I sit at the computer and help her) and I also try to incorporate numbers, small motor skills and some science into her curriculum. As for art? Well, we do crafts all the time and I think that's more of a lifestyle anyway, for us. Hubby is an architect and so we are always talking about art and design to the kids. (never mind the horrible flooring in the pic, we're in a rental right now)  Anyway, I had very mixed feelings about this because she is only 3 and won't be 4 until mid-Summer, but she knows all her letters and is starting to work on sounds. Headsprout has three free episodes you can play and she played them and begged to be allowed to play the rest every day for several months. I finally caved and bought the rest of the program. I do not advocate early reading, nor do I believe that children should be pushed to learn. But if the child is begging you every day for academic stimulation and is picking things up at an alarming rate, one must go with the flow and not stop them, KWIM? My other daughter tried the same program, but NOT being academically minded at all, and of more the creative, artistic type (definite right-brain, if you go for that sort of thing), she did not enjoy the program and indeed, S has already passed her up in episodes. Of course, A can read now, but it was a real struggle. She's more the type that resists learning because she's a perfectionist and doesn't like to engage in activities unless she can excel. (Hmmmm, wonder where she gets that from?)

Audio: Show us cover art or share a track from the first band or solo artist you flipped for.
Submitted by Red Pen.

So I'm a total cheeseball. I was in total la-la land for these boys. Oh, John Taylor. He gave me hormonal shivers just looking at his picture! Now I look back and Oh! The Hair!

Notorious

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