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๐ŸŽจ ๐ŸŽต Homeschool Arts & Music

Great homeschool teaching tips and easy little lessons on arts and music from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! ๐Ÿ˜Š

โกโ€…Holiday Music Month: This Homeschool Arts & Music collection also includes our special series of December Holiday Music Month posts.ย ๐ŸŽตย ๐ŸŽ„ย ๐ŸŽ…

๐ŸŽต HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Happy Birthday Bach!

21 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Take a few homeschool minutes to introduce your students to a tiny musical masterpiece by one of the world’s great composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, born on this day in 1685.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐ŸŽญ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: “Lend Me Your Ears!”

16 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Why not wrap up this special Julius Caesar Week in your homeschool by viewing and discussing several versions of a famous Shakespearean speech with your students.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

๐ŸŽป HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Introducing Barberโ€™s Adagio and Agnus Dei

9 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Today is the birthday of the great American classical composer Samuel Barber (1910โ€“1981). Introduce your homeschool students to one of his most famous works this week and give them a new treasure for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ“ธ PHOTO CHALLENGE โ€“ March 2023: โ€œLaunderingโ€ and โ€œHotelsโ€

6 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Laundering” and “Hotels & Motels.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

๐Ÿ“ธ PHOTO CHALLENGE โ€“ February 2023: โ€œHandlesโ€ and โ€œCruise Shipsโ€

4 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Handles” and “Passenger Ships.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

๐Ÿ– HOMESCHOOL ARTS: Color Our Collections Week!

31 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Download a whole year’s worth of free educational coloring booklets from major libraries and museums all around the world. It’s one of the easiest educational art opportunities you can find for your homeschool.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Collections & Collecting

๐ŸŽต HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Happy Birthday Mozart!

27 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Happy birthday to one of the greatest musical composers of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on this day in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Here are some little Mozart lessons that you can share with your homeschool students this week.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Lift Every Voice and Sing

15 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Let our rejoicing rise / High as the listening skies, / Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from James Weldon Johnson, for Martin Luther King’s birthday.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽญ TWELFTH NIGHT and the End of Holiday Music Month 2022โ€“2023

5 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Long long ago the world begun,ย / With aย hey, ho, the wind and the rain.ย / But that’s all one, our play is done,ย / And we’ll strive to please you every day.” (Shakespeare helps us bring the Christmas Season, and our own Homeschool Holiday Music Month, to a close.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: A Partridge in a ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒณ

5 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

One of the deepest purposes of a liberal education is to enable people to get jokes. David Chase’s brilliant arrangement of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” illustrates that happy principle for us as we approach the end of our Homeschool Holiday Music Month.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐Ÿ“ธ PHOTO CHALLENGE โ€“ January 2023: โ€œIceโ€ and โ€œHospitalsโ€

4 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Ice” and “Hospitals.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŒŸ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Star in the East

3 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

For Homeschool Holiday Music Month, introduce your students to the early American shape-note tradition by way of the beautiful carol “Star in the East,” first published in the Southern Harmony collection in 1835.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ‰ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Old Year Now Away is Fled

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Let’s merry be this day,ย / And let us now both sport and play,ย / Hang grief, cast care away,ย / God send you aย happy new year!” (An ancient new-year carol sung to the tune “Greensleeves,” by the great countertenor Alfred Deller, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿ”” WONDERFUL WORDS (and Sounds!): Ring Out, Wild Bells!

31 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow: / The year is going, let him go; / Ring out the false, ring in the true.” (Join Tennyson and some skillful bell-ringers to ring in the new year.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿป WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Auld Lang Syne

30 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“We two once ran along the hills and picked the daisies fine; / But we’ve wandered many a weary foot since those days of long ago.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Burns, for auld lang syne.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Sussex Mummersโ€™ Carol

28 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“God bless your house, your children too,ย / Your cattle and your store;ย / The Lord increase you day by dayย / And send you more and more.” (The Sussex Mummersโ€™ Carol, from Percy Grainger and others, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŒน HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Lo, How a Rose Eโ€™er Blooming

26 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“It came, a flow’ret bright, / Amid the cold of winter, / When half spent was the night.” (An ancient German carol that has been translated into many languages, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŒŸ ๐Ÿ‘ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Shepherdโ€™s Carol

25 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“We stood on the hills, Lady, / Our dayโ€™s work done, / Watching the frosted meadows / That winter had won.” (Aย Christmas night carol, from Bob Chilcott and Clive Sansom, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Hallelujah!

23 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Introduce your homescholars (in just ten minutes) to one of the world’s most famous pieces of classical music, from George Frideric Handel, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต โ„๏ธ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: In the Bleak Midwinter

21 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;ย / Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,ย / In the bleak midwinter, long ago.” (A frosty carol from Christina Rossetti and Gustav Holst, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month and the winter solstice.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Language & Literature, Homeschool Terms & Calendars

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Iย Wonder as Iย Wander

19 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Introduce your homeschool students to an American folk tune that has now become an internationally famous Christmas carol, and invite them to think about how different the same piece of music can sound under aย variety of vocal and instrumental arrangements.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ Aย CHRISTMAS EVE INVITATION: Carols from Kingโ€™s College

18 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

The beautiful Festival of Lessons and Carols from King’s College at Cambridge University is broadcast every year on Christmas Eve to millions of people around the world. You and your homescholars can join them.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐ŸŽต MARVELOUS MUSIC: It’s Beethoven’s Birthday!

16 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Take a few minutes out of your homeschool schedule today to celebrate an annual international musical milestone, to wit, Beethoven’s Birthday!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Christmas with William Billings

16 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Methinks I see an heavenly host / Of angels on the wing; / Methinks I hear their cheerful notes, / So merrily they sing.” (Discover what Christmas sounded like at the time of the American Revolution.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Oย Little Town of Bethlehem

14 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Invite your students to listen to a number of different performances of this popular American carol in a variety of different styles this week, and help them think through their preferences. It’s a great way to encourage their intellectual and artistic development.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿ“š HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Olden Times and Ancient Rhymes

13 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

What did Christmas in America sound like a hundred years ago? The National Jukebox at the Library of Congress has the answer for you and your homeschool students.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Books & Libraries

๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿš‹ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Walla Walla, Wash., anโ€™ Kalamazoo!

12 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Antelope cantaloupe, โ€™lope with you!” (A happy homeschool family sing-a-long from Walt Kelly, for Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

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