Here at Wildwood, we know that sometimes finding secular holiday music can be difficult. So we put together a collection of some of our favourite secular music to enjoy during the Holiday season.
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Join Marjorie, Miriam and Jennifer as they reflect on routines, rituals and stress over the holiday season and share some of what has worked for their families.
(This session was pre-recorded last year in December 2019.)
NB: Possible Santa Claus Spoilers
You can also check out the video version this podcast on YouTube.
The Team
Marjorie Lang – https://juniperpines.com/
Miriam Hur – https://wildwoodbeginnings.weebly.com/
Jennifer Gehman – http://connectionsforlearning.ca/
Laurie Connor – https://www.connerorchards.com/
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Note: The picture study rotation was updated in July 2020. Some of the artists that were originally in the rotation were removed to make way a more balanced selection in terms of gender and nationality. This unfortunately had the impact of moving some artists around and you may have already studied the artists listed for this. We have included an optional replacement artist at the bottom if that is the case.
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Monet is such a popular artist that you are encouraged to check out your library for a selection of books about his life and works. There are several lovely children's book.
Books:
- Linnea in Monet's Garden by by Christina Björk (affiliate link)
- Monet Paints a Day by Julie Danneberg (affiliate link)
Videos:
- Monet: Shadow and Light - a cheesy little film about a boy meeting Monet (and Renoir). Check to see if your library offers it through their streaming services.
- Monet's Palette and Technique - a quick tutorial for painting like Monet
Suggested Selections:
- Impression, Sunrise (1864)
- Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son (1875) - notes
- The Artist's Gardens at Vetheuil (1881) - notes here; and a short children's video here
- The Water Lily Pond: Green Harmony (1899)- notes
- The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (1903) - this is a part of series. You could find information about all the paintings of parliament here.
- Water Lilies (1916) - there are over 250 paintings in the Water Lily series! More info here and a sort analysis here.
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941)
Amrita Sher Gil: Rebel with a Paint Brush by Anita vachharajani
BOOKS and articles:
- Amrita Sher Gil: Rebel with a Paint Brush by Anita Vachharajani (affiliate link)
- Overlooked No More: Amrita Sher-Gil, a Pioneer of Indian Art, New York Times article
- Amrita Sher-Gil at Wikipedia
VIDEOS:
SUGGESTED SELECTIONS:
- Group of Three Girls (1935)
- South Indian Villagers Going to Market (1937)
- Untitled (In the Garden) (1938)
- Trees (1939)
- Elephants (1940)
- Ancient Storyteller (1940)
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
BOOKS:
VIDEOS:
- Beatrix Potter - an older documentary starring Helen Bonham Carter (part 2 is here)
- The History Chicks Podcast:Beatrix Potter
- Miss Potter feature film
SUGGESTED SELECTIONS:
OPTIONAL: Angelica Kauffman (1741 – 1807)
BOOKS and Articles:
- Angelica Kauffman wikipedia
- Kauffman Teaching Poster
VIDEOS:
- Art 318 - Angelika Kauffmann - an amatuer but excellent biography (part 2 here)
- A Study of Angelica Kauffman Self Portrait, Time Lapse - artist Christ Pickstock recreating one of her self portraits
SUGGESTED SELECTIONS:
- Self Portrait Aged Thirteen (1753) alongside Self Portrait (1771) - more info
- Self-portrait Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting (1791)
- Study of a Standing Woman (1792) - more info here; finished painting here
- The Ely Family (1741-1807) - more info
- The Artist in the Character of Design Listening to the Inspiration of Poetry (1782)
- Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (1785) - more info
Join us part 2 of our chat with reading specialist Kim Stoddard from Born 2 Read about reading problems, dyslexia, and strategies that parents can use when they and their children are struggling.
Links for some of the items referenced in this episode:
Orton Gillingham System
All About Reading
Logic of English
Barton Reading
Pride Reading Program
Is my Child Ready for Barton? Barton Student Screening Test
Foundations in Sounds - if a child cannot pass the screening test
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Join us this episode and the next as we chat with reading specialist Kim Stoddard from Born 2 Read about reading problems, dyslexia, and strategies that parents can use when they and their children are struggling.
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Today Marjorie, Miriam and Jennifer discuss reading with Melisa Nielsen of Waldorf Essentials. Melisa is a Waldorf educator, parent coach, and homeschooling mother of 5 children, two of whom have spectrum struggles. The Waldorf approach to early education is very similar to Miss Mason's own approach. Both methods are developmental, experiential in nature and honor the individual child. Melisa comes with a wealth of ideas for helping parents teach reading.
- 1:00 - Introduction to Melisa Nielsen
- 2:55 - An overview of Melisa's Waldorf-centric way to teach reading
- 6:39 - Shellie Davidow readers
- 7:45 - Is there a reason you introduce vowels after consonants?
- 9:18 - What if a young child wants to read?
- Jodie Mesler's Living Music program - 10:15 - How do you actually teach the letters?
- 15:07 - What is the best age to start? What do you do with young children wanting to learn to read?
- 17:43 - What are the most common problems moms come to you with and what is your advice?
- 27:23 - At what point do you say you need outside help?
- 43:05 - What non-reading parts of the day should you definitely not skip that would support reading indirectly ?
- 46:14 - What are your recommendations for children who are reading very early?
- 51:04 - Nature Minutes
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Marjorie, Jennifer and Miriam are joined today with Crystal Hosea, creator of Legends of the Staff of Musique, a comprehensive music curriculum inspired by the unique environment of home education, and incorporating movement and art alongside the voice.
- Introduction - Crystal explains how Legends of the Staff of Musique explores music in a holistic way through singing and movement.
- 3:50 - How do you bring singing to your children if you are not a confident singer yourself?
- 6:33 - If you feel you sing off-key all the time, should you still sing to your children or will you be teaching them to sing off-key?
- 8:30 - How do you incorporate singing into your day rather than having it just be a lesson time?
- 15:00 - What is the purpose of learning folksongs versus pop songs and what is, any is your personal preference?
- 24:45 - What if your child of whatever age is resistant to singing and think it's lame or dumb?
- 38:30 - How is brain development affected by singing?
- 43:40 - Why did you incorporate art into your music curriculum, Legends of the Staff Musique
- 49:30 - Nature Minutes
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We hosted a Live a Q and A! Here are our responses.
- 2:00 How do you organize everything?
- 16:00 Is creative nonfiction the same as a living book?
- 21:00 Are audiobooks living books? What is a living book?
- 30:00 How do you balance teaching while still preserving “a quiet growing time”?
- 38:00 How do you use KISS grammar?
- 45:00 What can you do in the early years to create rhythm?
- 55:00 Nature minutes
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Term 1 - Georges Seurat
Wikipedia and WikiArt articles
- Bathers at Asnières
- Parade de cirque
- Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
- Le Chahut
- The Eiffel Tower
- A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (15 interesting facts about about this painting - here)
Term 2 - Beatrix Potter
Wikipedia, WikiArt, My Modern Met and V&A Museum articles
Ancient Art
- Choose six from those suggested here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_art
OR
Artistic Architecture
- Choose six from this list: https://www.cuded.com/2014/04/famous-architecture-of-the-world/
- Some suggested resources
- From Mud Huts to Skyscrapers by Christine Paxmann
On Part 2 of our discussion about singing and the Solfa, we continue our chat with RaeAnna Goss, singing teacher, homeschool graduate, homeschooling mother, and Charlotte Mason follower, who has created Solfa Sofa, an early years approach for introducing singing in a CM-friendly way. (Part 1 can be found here.)
We were also joined by Crystal Hosea of The Legends of the Staff of Musique, but we invited Crystal back for another episode about her own CM approach to combining story and music, which will air in a couple of weeks.
Recorded April 15, 2019
Show Notes:
- Heidi Buschbach0:26 Free Resource Ideas
- 3:00 Paid Resouce Ideas
- 5:02 Should you use a certain set of songs to teach?
- 6:35 Canadian Resources
- Kodály Society of Canada
- Music Play with Denise Gagné
- 7:15 Crystal Hosea of The Legends of the Staff of Musique
- 8:14 Dalcroze and Movement
- 9:01 Miriam’s experience with Children of the Open Air
- 10:13 An overview of Solfa as learned up to Form 3
- 10:45 What to do in the upper forms
- 11:24 Skills to learn in the lower forms
- 15:34 Ear Training (PNEU article: A Few Remarks on Teaching Music by W.H. Leslie)
- 17:36 Starting with an older student
- Article referenced by Heidi Buschbach for older beginners
- Outschool
- 19:42 Solfedge, Solfa and Solfedgio
- 20:46 Find the joy and protect your children’s voices
- 27:07 Fun resources
- Music K-8 Magazine
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- The Kodály Center at Holy Names University
- Workshops with chapters of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- 29:46 Nature minutes
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