Deciding where to take a 5-year-old on a field trip is easy. Places like children’s museums and zoos are practically made for young kids’ field trips. Unfortunately, deciding where to take your teen on a field trip can be a little more difficult. Teens are a lot harder to please than young kids, and there [...]
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Tags: experential learning, field trips, Homeschooling, Museum, Music, theatre, Unschooling 
Comments OffMichael Pitrelli’s article on the secret behind American innovation is intriguing. As we spend more money on classroom education, race to beef-up STEM (Science Technology, Engineering, and Math) curriculum, figure out how to keep children from dropping out of school, and add even more tests to a student’s day to measure success, we may not [...]
Posted in Culture, Learning Methods Tags: Extracurricular activities, informal learning, Music, the arts Comments OffWhat happens when you bring together over one hundred young people from all different age groups, schools, abilities, and from diverse backgrounds for a weekend of intense orchestral site reading? Learning happens. Under professional musicians, regional conductors, and college professors, the young musicians sat on a state-of-the-art stage as a unique group unlikely ever to sit together [...]
Posted in Art, Learning Methods, Music Tags: child-led learning, homeschool, Music, Unschooling Comments OffThe iPad is truly amazing. Not only is it a web-browsing, note-taking, schedule-keeping, game-playing, e-mail-checking, sky-watching, map-displaying device, it is also a musical instrument! We found this nice tutorial on playing the guitar on Garageband, an Apple program now available as an iPad app ($4.99). Garageband is a very useful program and is worth $4.99 [...]
The iPod touch is a computer, game center, camera, music player, calendar, web browser, and now musical instrument. With a bit of practice and some nice little speakers, kids can jam together on these little electronic versions of real instruments. Don’t laugh. A band named Atomic Tom performed a tiny concert on the New York [...]
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Music, technology Tags: drumkit, iPad, iPhone, IPod Touch, Music, Musical instrument, ocarina, pocketguitar, virtuoso Comments OffFor those homeschoolers who are interested in writing their own music, it is easier than ever to customize your own printable staff paper. This tool makes it easy to add the clef, time signature, key signature, multiple staves, etc. We love the Blank Sheet Music website. If you register (free), you can take advantage of [...]
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Music, Online Tools Tags: Music, sheet music, write music 1 Comment »
