Week 1:
Viewed the beautiful cinematography of National Geographic's "Arctic Tale."
(Probably better on the big screen....)
Continued with piano lessons for the year.
Played a song at the end of one of the Russian folktales we read.
Week 2:
Read a book on Giuseppe Verdi as we studied mid-1800's Italy. Listened to some of his music.
Began preparing for recital.
Week 3:
Visited UK Art Museum for "Hidden Treasure Tour."
Week 4:
Visited Cincinnati Art Museum to see "From Sea to Shining Sea" touring art show.
Began year long art class for children, taught in the Mona Brooks style. Weekly lessons. (So I won't repeat this, but will just list other things we did....)
Week 5:
Participated in Cincinnati Museum Center's homeschool day "Treasures of the Whydah" (a pirate ship recently recovered from the sea). Toured National Geographic "Whydah" exhibit.
Week 6:
Saw children's theatre play: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."
Week 9:
Attended "Dia de Los Muertos" ballet performance at Singletary.
Listened to Armenian music.
Week 10:
Visited Bi-water Farm for Autumnfest. Enjoyed Halloween and Harvest décor in the outdoors on a lovely day!
Week 11:
Attended production of "Hana's Suitcase" (a play about WWII).
Week 12:
Saw theatre production of "Old Dry Frye."
Began attending free children's music class at Asbury (training for their music teacher students - 45 minutes, once weekly for six sessions).
Week 13:
Saw "Horse" art exhibit at Bluegrass airport.
Asbury music class.
Week 14:
Saw movie, "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium" - visually beautiful!
(Another that's probably better on the big screen....)
Completed a "stuffed turkey" craft at the library.
Asbury music class.
Saw "Sugar Plum" ballet performance at library.
Week 15:
Read The Great Migration, which was filled with the modern art of Jacob Lawrence and a poem by Walter Dean Myers.
Saw a children's theatre version of "Alice in Wonderland" that was visually stunning!
Attended "Extreme Explorers" group at the library to learn about holidays and traditions around the world - created a rain stick.
Asbury music class.
Week 16:
End of art class until after Christmas.
Asbury music class.
Week 17:
Attended free art workshop (I have no idea where or what this was about now....)
Saw children's theatre play "Laura Ingall's Wilder Christmas."
Asbury music class (last).
Week 18:
Resumed drawing classes, once weekly for 90 minutes.
Visited Waveland state historic site - beautifully decorated home of the mid-1800's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSLLiuEtKGg
Listened to "Wee Sing for Christmas."
Played three songs in piano recital, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Week 19:
Visited Lexington History Museum in the old downtown courthouse - great architecture!
Week 20:
Did "Extreme Explorers" group at the library re: Ancient Egypt.
Week 21:
Piano lessons resumed after Christmas.
Week 22:
Attended "Pecos Bill and Slue Foot Sue" theatre production.
Week 23:
Helped make table décor for Blue and Gold Banquet, Cub Scouts.
Attended Valentine's party.
Week 24:
Saw "Spiderwick Chronicles" - beautiful cinematography.
Week 26:
Saw "10,000 B.C. - Modern Take on Ancient Fables" - well done.
Week 27:
Saw Roald Dahl's "BFG" play production (visually very exciting and a little scary!)
Attended Singletary's orchestral performance "Lincoln: The Man and His Music."
Week 28:
Read and discussed:
Zin! Zin! Zin! AViolin, Lloyd Moss and What Makes an Orchestra, Jan Balet.
Week 29:
Read Look! Zoom in on Art!, Gillian Wolfe, and discussed.
Attended third year of "Hogwart's School" at Cincinnati Zoo - very theatrical!
Week 30-31:
Continued with piano lessons and theory work. Did a short study on Haydn at this time.
Week 32:
Listened to "Gift of the Tortoise." (One of my all-time FAVORITE children's CD's of music - by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.)
Week 33:
Last art class for year.
Week 34:
Listened to "Cool Jazz" CD of Charlie Parker on sax.
Week 35:
Listened to "Cool Jazz" CD of Miles Davis on trumpet.
Week 36:
Watched "Sister Wendy's Story of Painting: Modernism." (Very good, as are all her videos!) I don't know if these have been updated to play on CD....
Soooooo.... What would this year be? The year of Cinematography and Art Lessons? Sampling the world, musically speaking?
