Home School in the Woods is chock-full of amazing, family-friendly, flexible resources that integrate well into a plethora of school plans. We are really enjoying our Composers Activity-Pak, recommended for 3-8th grade.
Our Hand-On Digital Activity-Pak for Composers
Our Finished Composers Lapbook
Print Outs from our Composers Activity-Pak
This Activity-Pak is designed for students to learn through hand-on activities and projects. It can be used in addition to other study or it can be used to launch independent study on the topic, in our case Composers. This lapbook introduces students to 42 composers from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, beginning with Guido of Arezzo through Bernstein. Students learn about the periods of music (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc.), vocabulary and gain an appreciation by listening to great works by these musicians included in this download. There are 6 projects included in our lapbook with 2 additional activities - Periods of Music, Keyboard Vocabulary, Collection of Composers, Composers Timeline, Pieces with a Purpose, and Music Appreciation are all inside the lap book while The Orchestra File Folder Display and Composers Cards can be used additionally.
Our Composers Activity-Pak has many sections.
We put together all 6 of our lapbook projects and then we assembled our completed lapbook. There are great instructions for completing each project individually as well as assembling everything all together. I appreciate that the instructions include pictures making it crystal clear.
We cut out several of our pieces.
B colored the Composers cover and A colored our music staff.
Creating our Composers Timeline
We cut out all our pieces with a purpose: CD player, hymn book, money purse, crown, flag and Opera program.
Inside each of our pieces with a purpose we inserted the information.
We cut out all the composers and assembled them into booklets.
Completed Composer Booklets
Our Finished Lapbook
Let's go inside our finished lapbook!
What you see when you first open our lapbook.
There are 42 composer books inside our lapbook. Inside each book you can record the composers year of birth, year of death, country, period of music and compositions and interesting facts.
The keyboard vocabulary is located on both sides of the lapbook. When you lift up the keys, the word definitions can be found underneath.
A peek in the middle of our lapbook
A peek at the back of our lapbook.
Our completed Composers Timeline.
I also love that this digital resource is geared towards multiple students and reproducible within a family so this is perfect for our large crew! We chose to make a "family" lapbook this go around. Now that our Composers lapbook is complete we can start to fill out the individual booklets for each composer as we study and learn about them. This is such a fun resource and I highly recommend Home School in the Woods for quality resources!
Home School in the Woods has a great U.S. Elections Lap-Pak that can be used to introduce your student to the U.S. presidential elections process with hands-on activities. Home School in the Woods has a great post on how to use this specific lapbook and what it contains, check it out here. I also really appreciate this post on Why Teach With Lapbooks?
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This is such a great lapbook! I remember doing these with my children when they were younger.
ReplyDeleteIt really is amazing! I love how much they can add to studies.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to do either Composers, Artists or the Election. My son wanted the Industrial Revolution, so we went that direction :) Looks like you guys had a great time.
ReplyDeleteThis one looks really cool. I love Home School in the Woods (probably because I love history so much). I also love the fact that we can use them with multiple kids in the family.
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