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Living Books for Composer Study: Antonio Vivaldi

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Antonio Vivaldi Composer Study

ByChantel April 16, 2018May 14, 2018

Growing up I knew absolutely nothing about composers or classical music. With the exception of the tune of Ode to Joy thanks to the Drink Milk Love Life commercials back in the 90’s (what I’ve since learned: the commercial lied; milk doesn’t make everyone love life). Was this commercial just a Canadian thing? So, despite my…

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Composer Study with Living Books: Antonio Vivaldi

ByChantel October 24, 2017March 12, 2019

I’ve learned over the past few years the benefit of reading living books and I am making a real effort this year to add as many living books into our days as possible. Composer study and artist study are not something that are generally taught in the regular school system but hang around homeschoolers for a…

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Games in our Homeschool and some of our favorites

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Using Games in our Homeschool

ByChantel February 1, 2017

My husband has always loved games, he even has a group of friends that get together every month to play games. So it comes as no surprise to me that both my kids ask to play games often. The only games I played when I was younger were pretty much Clue with my brother and…

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Our curriculum plans for homeschooling grade one and preschool.

An Overview of Our Homemade Grade 1 & Preschool Curriculums

ByChantel August 24, 2016August 30, 2016

Today is our official start to our first year homeschooling! I have been waiting for this day for about 3 years and I’m kind of nervous that it will all blow up in our faces, I don’t think it will but that fear is definitely there. When I started thinking about what I all wanted…

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