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Home » Activities » Maestro Classics – Music Homeschool Curriculum

Maestro Classics – Music Homeschool Curriculum

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This post contains ideas for a music homeschool curriculum. Additionally, the post includes a “how to make a cardboard castle” activity, perfect for a unit on the composer, Richard Strauss, and Germany. As I plan out our homeschool year, Maestros Classics is undoubtedly part of our curriculum.

The products are of high quality and comprehensive. I purchased music to cover my homeschool year with my 4.5-year-old (the below package). The FREE curriculum guides are rich with information to fill a day and certainly a year’s worth of learning across topics, simply using music as a stepping stone.

Maestros Classics – Homeschool Music Curriculum

We received Merry Pranks of Master Till for review recently. It was a total hit in our home!  My boys, ages 6 and 4, love any tale that involves a bit of a troublemaker. They can relate to the character, I suppose. The fact that this tale is told through beautiful storytelling and Richard Strauss’ classical music is the icing on the cake.

Why We Love Maestros Classics

We love the music offered by Maestros Classics. The storytelling and musical accompaniment are wonderful. The amazing bonus is the additional support with FREE CURRICULUM for teachers and parents.

This curriculum is not simply printable coloring pages. The curriculum is comprehensive and covers a wide array of topics and age ranges. Quite impressive and ideal for homeschooling families.

Music Curriculum for Homeschoolers

Learning geography and culture is certainly one piece of goodness. My 4.5 year old listened to Merry Pranks of Master Till in his listening station. I mentioned that the composer of Merry Pranks, Richard Strauss, was from Germany.

He promptly pulled out our globe to understand where Germany existed in our world. I then went on to explain (truthfully what little) I know about Germany. I do know that the country has many castles and rich history. So, what would appeal to my 4.5-year-old to further this learning? A Cardboard Castle, of course.

Knights Cardboard Castle

How to Make a Cardboard Castle

I was pleasantly surprised, as I research Maestro Classics FREE curriculum on Master Till, to find a castle making activity perfect for my son: making a castle from a cardboard box. We always have boxes in our recycling so this project worked out perfectly for us! Such a simple activity to put together and it keeps on giving back.

How to Make a Cardboard Castle

Materials Needed to Make a Cardboard Castle

  1. String or Yarn
  2. X-Acto or Scissors
  3. Cardboard Box
  4. Crayons or Markers
  5. Figurines (we used Safari’s Knights & Dragons Toob)

How to Make a Cardboard Castle Drawbridge

Steps to Making a Cardboard Castle

Pretty straightforward. I will send you onto Enchanted Learning for more details. Once you cut the opening and make the basic castle design, you’re off to design with your own imagination!

Marnie

Tagged With: Homeschool, Music

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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