Goss Homeschool Academy

Since we start in August and the rotation on Ambleside Online doesn't really start until September, here are our monthly selections: HYMNS August :  Nothing But the Blood of Jesus September :  Marching to Zion October :  My Jesus, I Love Thee FOLK SONGS August :  The Ash Grove September : The Outlandish Knight October : Nice Field of Turnips I can't find a YouTube, but the sheet music is in this PDF!  ( Click here! ) It is VERY young so if you have older kids I suggest something from the PDF that may hold more interest for the older kids!  I am going to include another harvest folk song for our family that is included in the PDF!  Oats and Beans and Barley!

We follow the Ambleside Online rotation for composers and in Term 1 we split between Telemann and Corelli.  Here's an example of what we will do each week Week 1 - Listen to the Classics for Kids episode about Telemann (play Youtube/Prime stations in the background while building Legos, etc. through the week.) Week 2 - Play the Alster Suite Overture and draw pictures of frogs! Week 3 - Play Concerto for Traverso and Recorder .  Get out my recorder collection and have the kids play! Week 4 - Play Gigue from Suite in D Week 5 - Play Classics for Kids The Gigue is Up - watch some Gigue dances on Youtube! Week 6 - Play Telemann Water Music Overture Week 7 - Play Classics for Kids About Baroque Week 8 - Play Corelli Sarabande/Gigue/Badinerie Week 9 - Play Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor Week 10 - Play Corelli Concerto in D Major Week 11 - Play Corelli La Folia Sonata  Week 12 -  Review - maybe check out a book from the library about Baroque music! 

We will officially start in 2 weeks and like last year, I will blog updates to our education (mostly for accountability to myself and to share my cute kids with our family!!!) We will be using Ambleside Online as the "bones" of the curriculum.  I have been reading through the Charlotte Mason Volumes over the past few years and I'm starting to feel like I have a better understanding about how all of this looks in the big picture!  I may modify as the years go by and do more of an individualized feast as I see the need for my kids but still stick to the standards written in the volumes. Prep this year has been gathering all the books!!!  Many books on the booklist are in the public domain.  You can find them reprinted at Amazon and might even be able to get original vintage copies from booksellers on the internet.  I also decided to get some of the books printed from the public domain and spiral bound.  I'm planning on writing in the margins on some of these book