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Composer Study Lapbook Printout
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I found this excellent resource on gutenberg: The Child’s Book of Composers
There are a few, like Bach.
So I got inspired by some lapbook videos on youtube, and decided to make lapbooks out of the pictures and stories in the book.
Firstly, I compiled all the pictures from Gutenberg into two pages, and then edited them and printed them. What happens is that they are printed lightly (to save ink and also to allow the kids to trace the pictures). They can listen to Bach, while coloring pictures of Bach’s life. Then, they can stick the pictures in a lapbook and write the story in, basically following the story in the link above. Either that, or you can get them to read a biography of bach and write a narration into the lapbook,
Click here to download the pdf of for Bach Lapbook Prinout: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7atkk0mvoy8v7dt
(No fear! No viruses…) Just pictures of Bach’s keyboard, his family, illustrations of his life, etc.
I hope you find this useful! I plan to make somemore printout for the kids.
I’ve just rediscovered the beauty of lapbooks and how great they are for elementary-aged children. Somehow, older kids prefer notebooking or scrapbooking in a folder, but lapbooks are just perfect short little projects, great for narration.
I find composer study to be one way to approach music, at the simplest level. Personally, from there you really can dive deeper into thing like form, style, natationalistic characterics, characteristics of the era, etc. Then music correlates so much to history and the book of centuries. The fashions of the day seem to agree with the music, architecture, clothing, etc. It’s one seamless picture, a revisiting of an era.
This is great! Thanks a lot!
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So, sorry to bump this thread. I just wanted to post on how the first lapbook went with my pupil. Incorporating Charlotte Mason’s composer study into formal music lessons has been interesting. I plan to do this lapbook thing no more than once a month, though Pupil A has shown an interest in reading books about composers.
Pupil X is a first-grader, so though I initially thought of doing a well-organized lapbook with narration essay, things didn’t go that way, in a way it was more student-led.
I realized that its good to keep things at their age level and at a level they can enjoy rather than doings something that has to be *perfect* and *difficult*. She just had a great time cutting pictures, pasting them and labelling them independently while I talk, told stories, played recordings and also played some Bach music live. I think projects like this are so fun and can increase motor skills. Pupil A labelled dates, names, and other fun facts like “Bach Playing Music With His Family”.
I like the way she creatively arranged the pictures inside and outside of the lapbook almost like a science-fair/museum layout. She borrowed one of my books on composers with pictures to take home and read, expressing interest especially in Beethoven whose music she has played and the fact that he wrote music even when deaf.
With older pupils, they can actually outline the pictures with pen, color them, embellish and write more.
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