Our oldest is a rising Junior in college studying Music Theory and Composition
When I was expecting my oldest son, I taught a very sweet but incredibly challenging (and needy) group of third graders. At the end of the school day, I would walk (and at the end waddle) to my car, blast the air conditioner on high (we lived in South Florida then) and also play Vivaldi loudly! I would lean my seat back and just breath deeply and listen to classical music to decompress from the long day. I have always loved music and wished I was able to sing and play the piano but alas I was not gifted with such talents yet I could identify good music and talent when I heard it. When my son was born he had terrible car sickness and would cry the whole ride to anywhere unless I played Vivaldi really loud in the van! Vivaldi put him to sleep!! Can you believe it? Fast forward 18 months later and I was then teaching kindergarten. At the time we were responsible for teaching music and art so I sang popular tunes with my students often. When I would get home, I sang them to my baby. The tunes were in English, I only spoke to him in Spanish but he would cover my mouth when I missed a note and say, “asi no es mami!” (“that is not how it goes , mom!”) Lets just say that music was always easy for Guillermo.
My husband and I are not musicians or musically inclined, but we simply LOVE music and listen to it often. Music has been part of our relationship from the start! Our oldest is now 20 years old and studying Music Theory and Composition in college…music has always come so easy to him, I always thought he just got genetically lucky…but then all the other six children showed similar signs of being musically smart. Turns out not only is genetics important but also apparently environment is just as important!
From conception to age two, exposing babies to music is vital!
So my husband and I always wondered why all seven of our children are so musically inclined and now we know why…here is the importance of exposing your children, specifically your babies, to complex music like classical, chant, and jazz, from conception until the age of two…they can help your children acquire perfect pitch because it helps them comprehend more complicated phonemes…same goes for languages! This channel is phenomenal for learning about the science of music!
Oh and here are some of our son’s amazing compositions many of which he wrote while still at home as a homeschooled teenager! Enjoy!
PS: the Pie Iesu and Panis Angelicum is him conducting!!
This coming school year we are going to cycle back to Catholic Schoolhouse Tour 1: American History!
With this in mind I have started working on our Notebook for this coming school year with USA studies in mind. One of my dear friends, Becky, suggested I make a blog post with links to all of the items I have worked on (some with my friend Rose, both of them use Catholic Schoolhouse) so this way it is easy access for anyone going to use Tour I this coming or future school years.
Print on one side the name of the state and the colorful state flag on the back you print the interactive flash card! ON the back your child collects the information for the state capital, bird, flower, tree, Notable Catholic, and Order admitted into the union!
The last three pages of this PDF has a handy spreadsheet for the parent to have the answers quickly.
Print front and back, fill out the back, laminate then cut out! You can put them on a ring or just wrap them with a rubber band. An easy and quick way to make flash cards of your own!
This item comes free with our Discover US Geography Complete Bundle!
There are 30 different mammals of North America with specific notebooking pages included in this bundle along with some blank pages making this bundle customizable for use with any mammal study of your choice!
67 total pages
60 animal specific pages
30 different Mammals to study
2 blank mammal fact notebooking pages to add any mammal of your choice
There are 28 different birds of North America with specific notebooking pages included in this bundle along with some blank pages making this bundle customizable for use with any bird study of your choice!
63 total pages
56 animal specific pages
28 different birds to study
2 blank bird fact notebooking pages to add any bird of your choice
I have put together, as best as I could tell by their description, how each of the Four Series Magic Schoolbus episodes correlate to the Science topics for all three of the CSH tours.
Included in this Bundle are both the Black & White and the Color Pages for Notebooking and Copywork for Zoology. Included in both color and B&W are 262 pages (in two files of 131 pages) with a combination of these kinds of pages:
Animal Fact Sheet Notebooking pages
Animal Anatomy Labeling Notebooking Pages
Animal Flash Cards (print two sets and play Memory)
Animal Detectives (Outdoor search)
Copywork in both print and cursive with animal facts
Blank Notebooking pages with clipart
Blank Notebooking pages without clipart
Life Cycle Notebooking Pages
Animal Research Report gathering data page
Animal Research Report blank Essay page
Suggested Hyperlinked Resource Book List
Animals Covered:
Mammals
Insects
Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
These will also be sold individually for $6 each so this Bundle price is shown at a discount!
