Day #77/175 Days - Fine Arts Co-Op

My sister & I are trying to get caught up on our Fine Arts co-op. We had planned out September to December back in August. We still have one more set of instruments and a composer left to cover from that original list. We had to cancel quite a bit this past fall, but I think we're on a roll again. I'll be making up a new list for our next few months soon. Any suggestions? We typically cover two instruments, a composer and an artist. I'll list all we've done so far at the end of the post.

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Music Study

•  Read about the viola in Story of the Orchestra
• Listened to a track of a viola playing from the CD that goes with the book
• Colored a picture of a viola (member section from abcteach)
• Listed 4 things about the viola that they learned and created mini-book
• Read about the clarinet in Story of the Orchestra
• Listened to a track of a clarinet playing from the CD 
• Colored a picture of a clarinet (again member section of abcteach)
• Pulled out my old clarinet for everyone to have a turn trying to play. I played for eight years (grades 5-12).

 

•  Listed four things learned and created mini-book
• Read from The Spiritual Lives of Great Composers about Schubert.
• Colored a coloring page of Schubert

     

• Created a "Composer of the Month" sheet.
• Watched YouTube videos of "Ava Maria" being performed

Art Study

• Watched Lesson 6 on our "God & the History of Art" DVDs. This covered the Dark Ages & Monasteries as well as illuminated manuscripts. 
• Discussed book making ----> Bibles -----> Monks copying -----> cost of books ---->missions -----> persecution of Christians
• Each boy was given a copy of their name done in a Celtic style font in order to color it. I found it here.

• Watch "Fundamentals of Drawing Part 2" and complete all drawings taught
• Still life (drawing a mug)
• Rules of composition
•  Read about Edgar Degas in Art in Story
• Watched this video on YouTube with lots of paintings by Degas.
• Read about Degas in Discovering Great Artists
• Create crayon resistance drawing (this didn't work as well as I had hoped)

  

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Instruments Studied so far:

• violin
• harpsichord
• flute
• piano
• cello
• organ
• viola
• clarinet
• oboe
• clavichord
• saxophone
• trumpet
• cellesta
• tubular bells

Composers studied so far:

• Bach
• Mozart
• Haydn
• Schubert
• Handel
• Chopin
• Txhaikovsky

Artists studied so far:

• Rembrandt
• Botticelli
• da Vinci
• van Gogh
• Monet
• Degas