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Music Appreciation – Beethoven Chiming Bells

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Learning through our music appreciation activities using Zeezok has been plain fun. Also, look at Fun Facts About the Phantom of the Opera & Styles of Music Unit Study.

Today, I decided to give you a peek at the minibook on Beethoven.

You know I told you that for a few months now I have been reviewing Music Appreciation for the Elementary Grades: Book 1 by Zeezok Publishing.  

It has been such an over the top wonderful comprehensive music study that we have been spending as much time as we can on it.

MiniBook Chiming Bells Beethoven by ZeeZok

I have a full review coming next month on it, but can’t contain myself and have to give you another sneak peek at the fun we are having with it.

music-appreciation-collection

In the bundle there are seven different composers, dating from 1685 to 1828 to study about.

They are:

  • Bach,
  • Handel,
  • Haydn,
  • Mozart,
  • Beethoven,
  • Paganini and
  • Schubert.

We have read a bit on most of the composers but we have honed in on a study of Beethoven. 

I like the fact also that our study of Beethoven coincides with our unit study on the French Revolution.

More Music Appreciation Curriculum

Today though I wanted to show you the picture of the cutest chiming bells minibook about events in Ludwig’s life.

foldout view of minibook on chiming bells for Beethoven by Zeezok

It folds up accordion style and we used some orange twine to weave ours together and tie it up. 

Reading the biography on Beethoven that came in this series and learning about Beethoven’s love for chiming bells, Tiny made the mini book that gives a quick reference in each chapter where Beethoven shows how the music of the bells comforted him or brought back memories.

Tiny was so tickled with it and I had to show it to you.

Activity Book for Music Appreciation by Zeezok

Also, after reading the biography we work on some activities in the activity book. 

Tiny likes to divide out his writing and I don’t mind.  So we do the same with each chapter in the biography book. 

The picture above is the activity book which has plenty of hands-on activities to choose from and we like that part the best so far. 

Well there are some others parts to this curriculum we are loving too and I’ll show you those next time because I can’t wait to the end of next month to give you a heads up on what we are doing.

Music Appreciation - Beethoven Chiming Bells
Music Appreciation - Beethoven Chiming Bells
Music Appreciation - Beethoven Chiming Bells

Beethoven & The French Revolution Minibook (Music Unit Study)

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French Revolution & Beethoven Collage

So you know we have been trying to get one more unit study in before we have to think about moving. {I think we can, I think we can.}

Zeezok Publishing Review

But, one thing I have not told you about yet that we love, is that I have been reviewing The Music Appreciation Collection by Zeezok Publishing.

Before I say anything else, let me just pause and say “Wow”!  I had no idea that we would love it so much and that it would be so extensive with background information on the life of each music composer and not just music CDs.

Zeezok Publishing Review Beethoven Lapbook and Reader

Though I do say it from time to time, I want you to know too that I do not accept every offer made to me for free curriculum to review.  But, when I do accept I am thinking it would make a great fit for our family and this curriculum is no exception. 

It tops the favorites list too and we are not finished with it yet.   One thing that appealed to me right away are the lapbooks on each composer as well as the beautiful readers.

Zeezok Publishing Review Activity Book

(activity book with a variety of extensive activities)

I won’t be posting the review until next month, but just wanted you to get a sneak peek.

Because we have been learning so much from it, I wanted to share a connection to our French Revolution unit study and that is about Beethoven. 

We were delighted to know that our composer study lined up with our unit study.  I had no way of knowing that of course when I accepted the offer.  So this was a nice surprise.

Though I recalled the time period that Beethoven lived in, I knew he was not from France.  But, after using Zeezok’s Music Appreciation activity book we realized that the French Revolution did affect Beethoven. 

Sure he knew about the French Revolution because it was a significant event of that time period, but I didn’t really know any details.  The activity for the lesson pointed out that he could not travel to Vienna because the city was not safe because of the uprising.

Too, he very much was affected by the bombing of Napoleon Bonaparte.  Though technically, Austria was bombed when Napoleon Bonaparte was emperor, it had its roots in the French Revolution.

French Revolution & Beethoven @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Because we are doing a full lapbook from Zeezok on Beethoven coming up next month, I created this free minibook to go with our current unit study about the French Revolution. 

We are using it to note a few facts about Beethoven so that Tiny remembers he lived during this time period.

Download the free minibook on Beethoven here.

I love it when we discover an unplanned music tie in to our unit study.  Do you seize those moments too?

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Hugs and love ya,