Our First Blog Sponsor

You know I realised that when I shared our story with you regarding Music and the experiences B and I have had over the years I completely left out one very important part.

Adventus Music and Piano Learning Solutions are our very first Blog Sponsors!! I am so excited about this. I don't think I could have wished for a better, more appropriate sponsor for our blog and our family.

Adventus have given our family a subscription to the MusIQ Homeschool range of products. Our children will be starting out with the first levels within the Children's Music Journey (in fact they have already started). I have chosen to purchase the workbooks that go along with the program for some added 'offline' working.

We also, of course needed to purchase a MIDI Keyboard and we chose the Yamaha PSR E423. It's middle of the road when it comes to this style keyboard. B was drooling over a $15 000 piano in the store. We suggested that maybe when he is up on stage playing we might consider it hehehehe

So you will be soon hearing about (and seeing photos and videos) all of the fun stuff we are getting up to with this software and how the kids are travelling in their music journeys. For now it will just B and K, C is not quite 2 1/2 so a little young to get started right now. I'd dearly love to find the time to jump on myself but I'm not making any promises on that one just yet.

I'd like to say a huge thank you to Adventus, especially to Jim for all of his assistance and patience.

Be watching for the kids first videos as they find their way around Children's Music Journey.

We're On Facebook

Ok I finally succumbed to this and set up a Page for Our Worldwide Classroom over at Facebook.

I admit I still don't really know what I doing so any pointers you can offer will be gratefully received.

Please jump over and become a fan and follow us on facebook.

Way Back When: Cave Paintings, Little Hunter & Creation Stories

To finish up our Pre-History Unit we chose a couple of fun books.

There Was An Old Man Who Painted The Sky is the story of a little girl that finds cave paintings. The paintings appear to represent a creation story, depicting day and night, the creation of the planets, animals and people.

The author tells this story with a rythmic,'There Was An Old Woman Who Swalled A Fly' feel to it.

The illustrations are beautifully done and of course we simply couldn't resist a few 'cave paintings' of our own.

K was adamant that she was depicting a wintery snow scene. I encouraged her to try and add in at least some colour.

B was quite enthralled in the beginning, bu this interest fell away fairly quickly with this one. He is definitely into the whole pencil and paper thing right now.


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We stumbled across this little book - Littlenose The Hunter by John Grant.

There are actually 13 books in this series, with the first one written way back in 1968.

This was a cute Little nonsense type story. Although as B pointed out at the end of the very first chapter, it is really more of a series of short stories compiled together into one book.

A simple easy, fun read that certainly got the kids wondering what life would have been like for a Cave Boy that had a Mammoth for a best friend.

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