music theory & hymn study

Monday's are Music Days. After lunch, we generally have time for some kind of "culture" time (as I call it). On Monday we take about 10-15 minutes to discuss music. The kids really enjoy imitating rythyms and getting a chance to play low or high notes on the piano. Once again, it is amazing to me that with such little time investment, they can learn and retain so much. I've created a list of music lessons based on suggestions from some of the following sites:

Theory Time - I didn't purchase these workbooks, though they look pretty good. I am using the concepts listed as jumping board for our gentle theory lessons.

Making Music Fun



During nightly Family Worship we work on learning one hymn per month. At the beginning of the year, I came up with a list of hymns (both old and new) and printed all of the lyrics and sheet music from the internet.

This is our list for 2009:

January	Be Thou my Vision
February	What Wondrous Love is This
March	I will Glory in my Redeemer
April	Crown Him with Many Crowns
May	Not What my Hands Have Done
June
July	Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
August
September	Great God of Wonders
October	And Can it Be
November	Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
December