Music Day

On Wednesday, we got to have a lesson on music.  Maria Montessori believed that "there should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech."  She believed that exposure to music - listening, learning, and playing music would have a beneficial effect on children of this age.  Today we were learning about the composer Beethoven.

Beethoven was an amazing composer who was born on December 16th, 1770.  He was a child prodigy and a musical genius.  He lived with hearing loss that ended in total deafness and yet still composed amazing symphonies and sonatas.  His deafness did not stop him from playing or writing music.  He "felt" the music. 

We finished up our work a little early so that we could get out our musical instruments.  Miss JaNae has instruments from all over the world and so many that the children get to try out as many as they want.  The kids sure had fun experimenting with them.

I am adding this little video of the children trying out their instruments just because it makes me giggle.  Maybe we should have had a lesson on cacophony.

Harvesting Grapes

We went on a little field trip to the neighbors grapevines for a little harvesting. Everyone got to pick one bunch of grapes.  They did such a great job and now one of the new fun works is grape washing and sharing!