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Melissa | July 30, 2010
Recently, over at my business site Shining Dawn Books, I posted a glowing review for nature music CD’s from Global Journey Music. In addition to the CD’s related to nature I also was given the pleasure to review four children’s music CD’s and three classical music CD’s. Below are the selections I was given:
What a [...]
Melissa | July 26, 2010
I’m Back! I’m happy to report the calendar commitments have settled down quite a bit here. We will be starting up our school year next Monday (8-2) and it seems the month prior to that is always filled with things to do before the end of summer break.
Anyways, I’d like to post something here a [...]
Melissa | May 22, 2010
Our city holds a Sidewalk Chalk Festival each year where local artists come out to show their amazing artistic skills with chalk and try to get your vote. This along with yummy local diner food and the Kona Ice truck made this a wonderful experience! There were two main categories to vote for: high school [...]
Melissa | January 17, 2010
For our poetry this past week we focused on the poem, When All the World is Full of Snow by N.M. Bodecker.
This beautiful poem is excellent to read for vivid metaphors such as…”and swarming frost flakes fill the trees with billions of albino bees.”
Whenever we read poetry it seems to inspire art, so that is [...]
Melissa | September 16, 2009
This month we have moved on to studying a new composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
I have made up a journal/worksheet for my kids to grab and use. If you would like to download the Classical Music Journal, click on the link below.
Melissa | August 11, 2009
Today, we got back into a regular schedule of studying famous artists and composers. We had the pleasure of starting out with studying about the French artist, Paul Cezanne.
Self Portrait, 1875-1877
There were two main lessons that we learned from researching about Cezanne. First, here is a quote from a letter that he wrote to his childhood best [...]
