One of my favorite things about homeschooling is watching my kids learn to make connections between subjects. We love unit studies and weaving subjects together to create layered learning and understanding.
I turn to the SQUILT LIVE! archives to help incorporate music into our specific studies. But here’s the secret: the real power of SQUILT...
Learning about music from around the world is quite honestly fascinating for children (and adults!)
Whether it is through folk songs, native instruments, or the "classical" music of a country, music is directly linked to a country's formation, history, and identity.
As we travel the globe in our musical studies, we will spend time in diffe...
The Christmas celebrations aren't complete without The Nutcracker, are they?
Here at SQUILT, we make learning about The Nutcracker simple, enjoyable, and flexible.
Your littlest children may simply enjoy scenes from the ballet and learning to recognize a few of the more famous character dances from the second act. Your older children, however,...
Last summer, in an effort for my husband and I to relive our own childhood, we introduced our five children to the 1992 film, Newsies.
We do things like that often… Buying the them ‘retro’ remake of toys we had when we were kids, blaring songs from our high school years that we had ‘burned’ on cds and having family movie nights of all the clas...
This year marks 250 years since Ludwig van Beethoven's birth.
Celebrations around the world will pay tribute to this pioneer of not only the piano, but also large symphonic works.
Beethoven was also the pioneer of strong emotion in music - he took listeners from the very predictable and structured Classical Era of music - into the emotional wor...
Harp music is known to have existed in Ireland from as early as the year 1000 AD. The harp, the simple wire-strung type we see on the Irish National Emblem, was an integral part of Irish society in Medieval times.
From 1100-1600, different groups of invaders brought with them many different types of harps. Naturally, harp music evolved and incr...
