Collage Friday - Music Camp
Friday, July 12, 2013 at 5:00AM
Greetings from music camp!
This week we've been leaving our house at 7:15 each morning, driving an hour to downtown Atlanta, spending a full day at music camp, and arriving home around 5:30.
We're tired, happy, and considerably more musical!
The kids have spent their days is choir, handbells, music history class, art, games, performances, and much more. The culmination is a performance this afternoon (Friday) of a pirate musical.
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I've spent the week teaching a "Music Explorers" class. We've used lots of SQUILT and Notebooking Pages to learn about three composers and three pieces that have a water theme. We have also learned all about the symphony orchestra using some materials from Homeschool in the Woods.
I've also boned up on my accompanying skills and will be playing for the musical. {sigh} Seven songs going through multiple key changes has kept my brain busy this week.
Tomorrow morning I am SLEEPING IN!
A peek at the week:
- Using Notebooking Pages to learn about Handel, Debussy, and Saint-Saens.
- Reading a great storybook about Handel.
- Several live performances by a percussionist, string quartet, pipe organist and a professional hula dancer!
- Making fold out orchestras from Homeschool in the Woods.
- A trip to the Legacy Fountains at Piedmont Park.
- Riding the entire week in style reviewing the new 2014 Kia Sorento (I LOVE this car.).
Before bed each night I've been reading Start, by Jon Acuff. It's making me think quite a bit - I highly recommend this book to you!
I wish I could write more, but I have some piano practice, laundry, and other household chores calling me.
OH -- it's also my 16th anniversary today. I love spending it in the same church we were married in. We'll have dinner out with the kids after music camp, and find time next week to do something special just the two of us.
I love my husband so very much, and I am blessed to have had the past 16 years with him!
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Reader Comments (12)
Happy Anniversary! Hope you have a wonderful day! Camp looks like fun but getting up that early and driving an hour, my kids would say no way...LOL
We've been having a similar week in Theater Camp...although I have no photos :(
Happy Anniversary to you both! I hope you have a wonderful day and find time for a special outing alone.
The music camp looks wonderful! I wish we had something like that here. You have such amazing experiences.
What an incredible resource you are for music. Thank you so much for telling us what you do and how you do it.
Happy anniversary! Sounds like a fun but exhausting week. Hope the performance goes well!
Happy anniversary! Music camp sounds like fun but I'm all for sleeping in!
Happy Anniversary! I've enjoyed your music camp Instagrams this week. It looks so fun!
Congratulations on your wedding anniversary!
Last summer we did a music camp with a performance at the end of the week. The kids loved it! This summer I promised NOT to do any camps. Definitely resting. WE are only doing our weekly summer reading program at our library, playdates and unit study based on books. I vowed to slow down. I will be posting the unit study next Friday. :)
Happy anniversary! I think I may have mentioned this before, but you were married the same year we were! (Ours is in December, though, so I am betting I need to see you for marital wisdom since you have been married 6 more months than me...) ;0)
Also, I SO want to learn more about how you run your music camp! Maybe, just MAYBE, I could take a Mommy field trip down to Atlanta and talk to you about it sometime...hmmmm...
Mary, music camp sounds amazing. What a busy week you had. I hope you'll have some down time this weekend.
Thanks for hosting Collage Friday (again). betty jo
Happy, Happy Anniversary! What a great week of music camp. I know the kids loved it! Our friend J. showed us his talent from the talent show ~ Priceless!! Enjoy your weekend =)
Mary this looks like a fun and exciting week. So glad you were able to incorporate Squilt into your program. :)