Everything You Need to Know About the Brand New Beautiful Feet Books Music Appreciation Curriculum
My personal approach to the fine arts in our homeschool is that they are not optional. Fine arts can be tied in with history, science, geography, and more. Music, art, architecture, literature, poetry–I want to cover it all, each and every year. This year, I am more than excited to work through something brand new: Beautiful Feet Books Music Appreciation curriculum.
In this post, I’m going give you everything you need to know about this new curriculum, my favorite aspects, and how we plan to use it in the coming school year. If you’re looking for something new, fresh, and beautiful you’re going to LOVE this review!
What’s Inside Beautiful Feet Books Music Appreciation Curriculum?
From music from the ancients to rock ‘n’ roll, Book of Composers from Beautiful Feet Books covers composers from all across history. This music appreciation course will expose you and your kids to a huge variety of music.
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Included in the curriculum is:
- Book of Composers (a beautiful hardcover book with high quality pages, full color photos, and stories of composers throughout history)
- teacher guide (over 100 page guide that includes lesson plans, literature supplements, recipes, and more)
- 11 playlists to accompany your study
- a digital resource packet (includes diagrams of instruments, coloring pages, recipes, vocabulary lists, and more)
- and a BFB notebook to keep track of notes from the lessons and vocabulary words
Beautiful Feet Books Music Appreciation Curriculum: What I’m Loving
- Beautiful Feet Books Music Appreciation is highly customizable to whatever your schedule allows for. Sometimes with courses like this, other subjects take precedence–like math! I love including fine arts into our days and this is designed so you can easily fit in just a few minutes or a whole hour if you want to.
- This curriculum is the perfect example of “family homeschooling.” With a wide-variety of ages, so often we are splitting our family up to do different subjects. This was designed for grades 2-12, so everyone can join in!
- All the heavy planning is done. I can use their lesson plans (52 lessons total) and adjust them as needed. I don’t have to search around for good books to add in or music to play. It’s all done for me.
- Each lesson includes a color-coded guide to show you when to:
- “Read and Listen”
- “Discuss”
- “Record” (in their notebooks)
- “Explore”
- “Do” (projects or recipes)
- and “Rabbit Trails” (for extra ideas if the child is loving a certain section)
How We’ll Be Using BFB Music Appreciation
This coming school year, I will just have my girls, who are in 11th and 6th grades. I am really excited to be doing this together with them and incorporating it into our Morning Meeting, directly after Bible. We will do these lessons in 20-30 minute chunks of time, which is very doable. Each lesson is designed to take no more than 60 minutes, so I will just break up the lessons as needed.
We will listen to the playlists as we eat breakfast in the mornings as well. I love to start our days with music!
The curriculum is broken up into sections as follows:
- Ancient Music
- Medieval and Renaissance Music
- Baroque
- Classical
- Romantic
- Music in the 20th Century
The final section covers musicals and musical theater, so I think it will be fun to watch several musicals as we cover that section.
I am so looking forward to adding more music appreciation into our days!
More Beautiful Feet Books Reviews:
If you’d like to read more about Beautiful Feet Books and the courses they put out, here are some other reviews:
- Literature-Based Early American History
- Literature-Based Modern American and World History for High School
- Around the World with Picture Books
- Teaching Character Through Literature
