This week has been full of the unplanned. Driving trucks without dashboards, trucks dying… replacing the battery, but it is still not 100%….. Now I am caring for one that is sick. YUK! Poor Guy. He gets a couch day today.
Since my formal teaching lessons have been set aside for the day, I have plenty of time to tell you about what we are doing for Music this week. We are still learning about Martin Luther, from the Composer standpoint, not so much the historical one, even though they are quite tied together.
We continued to read in our Mr. Pipes, Hymns of the Reformation book. (when the car breaks, you suddenly have time to read while you wait for the Daddy rescue vehicle to arrive)
We participate in a church club called Master Clubs. Kids earn badges and such for learning scripture and completing other sections. It is sort of like Scouting, and Awana rolled into one. Anyway, one of the badges that you can earn is one about Music. We will need to write a 100 word report about a composer of some Hymns and we will use Martin Luther to do it. I think it is a nice way to help motivate him to write a little…. since if I just asked him to do it for a school assignment, you would have seen him chew off his arm to avoid it. Give him a badge to earn and he is suddenly Jack London.
I am enjoying this easy study of music intertwined with our lessons. I doesn’t feel strained or overwhelming.
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