Review: LitWit

LitWits allows your student to happy engage with great books -- and learn strong character traits, coping skills, and academic lessons with their LitWits Kits.

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Review: LitWits

Okay, another new product to share with ya'll today. This one is from LitWits and it is their LitWits Kits.

Designed for kids ages 8-12, the idea behind this product is very simple. Take a book. Read the book. And then use one of their LitWits Kits to help that book come alive for your child. 

Founders Becky and Jenny are sisters. They hold workshops in Santa Cruz, California. They have kids read (or listen) to the chosen story ahead of time and then spend three hours immersed in the book at the workshop. The workshops are designed for kids who love to read. In this way they get to spend even more time in their book. However, the workshops are also for kids who don't like to read: it's a chance to see a book really come to life.

The sisters took all of these workshops they do and put them into a "Kit" that you can purchase and use at home as you are reading and after you finish reading a particular book. 

I received four different "Kits" for this review product. The four I received were: 

• Wonder (mini-kit)
• All Creatures Great and Small
• The Birchbark House
• Tuck Everlasting

Due to time constraints during the review period, we were only able to complete two of the books: Wonder and Tuck Everlasting. 

Wonder

The story Wonder by R.J. Palacio is not a classic or vintage so Becky and Jenny haven't done a workshop on it yet. However, they put together a "Mini-kit" for this story. 

I had our six older students read (or listen) to Wonder. The Kit itself was intended for kids in grades 4-8, but little Abigail is in second grade and still did great with this LitWits Kit. The rest of the kiddos were in the recommended grades as you can see from the chart below:

• Gabe (age 14) 8th grade
• Ana (age 12) 7th grade
• Isaac (age 11) 5th grade
• Kari (age 11) 5th grade
• Sidge (age 10) 5th grade
• Abigail (age 8) 2nd grade

The "Mini-Kit" is approximately 30 pages long. We started with a suggested activity entitled "Face Changers." In this activity, I printed out the provided template of August's face and had the kids look through magazines to find word that connote good inner qualities. This is the template I used: 

We actually had a visiting friend that day who is in the third grade, and she jumped in and participated as well. Here were the results from the seven kiddos:

This student decided to try and use the magazines to actually make the face  LOOK like a face. 

This is a picture of the kids working on the assignment.

The next day we decided to try an activity called "Picturing Kindness." In this one, I printed out the "character quality" cards that were included in the packet. We went outside in the yard as it was a beautiful fall day, and I put all the cards in the grass. 

I had each kid pick a card up that represented someone else in our group. I was careful to make sure everyone got a turn and everyone was being affirmed. People would choose a card and say: "Isaac is encouraging because he ...." or they would say "Abigail you are generous when you ...." It was a really fun activity and you could tell that these kind words really built the other kids up.

After that, I passed out a card I had written to each of the seven kids where I had listed the words that I thought they regularly displayed. Here is an example of one of the cards I wrote. (I removed any identifying remarks from the card.) 

I told the kids to find somewhere private to read their cards and that while they could share them with their parents, they weren't to be shared with any other kids in the group.

We also completed a worksheet and had time to talk about "The Narrative Arc" while using the packet. 

We actually worked our way through the whole packet so there is more I could share, but for sake of time, I'll cut it short. But let me tell you. This product only costs $9. I can tell you that it is totally worth your money. No trying to find a ton of things online and piecing together your own Kit. Instead, you can simply read the book and everything is right at your fingertips. 

Tuck Everlasting

The next Kit I did was Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. This is a very short read which meant it was perfect for the review period I had. Written by Natalie Babbitt, we read the book and after we had worked through the Kit, I let the kids watch the movie. 

They did NOT like the movie. I find this an important aspect to mention. I think that when a book is read and studied properly, most movies pale in comparison. This was definitely true for this book. Across the board the kids had complaints about the movie. 

The LitWits Kit for Tuck Everlasting was not a "Mini-Kit" like the one for the book Wonder. For this reason the cost is slightly higher ($18). However, rest-assured, again, the price is completely appropriate. Again, no scouring the Internet to find what you need. It's all right there. 

One of the suggestions which I really loved was the following at the start of the Kit:

We love sharing all the fun we've had, but please don't let our abundance of ideas bog you down. Just take what you need, and change it to suit your goals. 

I love this reminder!

The online Kit is set up as follows:

• Welcome
• Overview 
• Prop Ideas
• Hands-On Fun
• The Tree of Life
• Producing Characters
• Active Adjectives
• A Good Supper
• Takeaways
• Endless Cycles
• Dilemmas
• Worksheets (includes Narrative Arc, Setting, Creative Writing, and Vocabulary). Here are two of the worksheets completed in our homeschool classroom: 




• Learning Links
• Great Quotes

I could go on and on reviewing this product. I loved it so, and I can guarantee you that as this review closes, I will be moving on to the other two books we haven't done the Kit on: 

• All Creatures Great and Small
• The Birchbark House

I spent time looking at the LitWit Kit for these two books and they are as equally exciting as the two we have already completed! Take the time to visit LitWits and spend some time time perusing their 40+ titles! You won't be disappointed. Seriously! These are so great. You could honestly do this for the entire year. Pick a book. Do a Kit on the book. Over and over again! Great literature and great activities to supplement it.

Also, I am doing a VIDEO REVIEW on this product. Stay tuned for it to be linked right below as well!

And also, click on the image below to read some reviews from my fellow reviewers at the Schoolhouse Review crew. 

 

Review: CrossTimber - Name Meaning Gifts

THIS is a review you do NOT want to skip over. I am serious! If you are a parent or a grandparent, I promise you, this may be the gift for your little one's Christmas or next birthday. It is simply awesome! This is from CrossTimber - Name Meaning Gifts. While they have all kinds of AMAZING personalized gifts for your loved one, it is a personalized DVD for your child that I am going to be reviewing today. You can find that product by clicking on the following link: Your Amazing Name - Personalized Adventures for EVERY name!
I, in fact, did a review for this company back in 2016. You can flashback to my review by clicking here.
Okay, so without further ado, here is my review video:

And, I wanted to take a moment to share a second video. This is a video I took of Hannah watching her video for the very first time. She absolutely LOVED LOVED LOVED this product. All my children watched it together. It was simply AWESOME!
 
Read the reviews from my fellow reviewers by clicking the image below:

Review: Calvert Homeschool

Okay, this is a bit of a different review for me. This is for Calvert Homeschool and specifically, this is their Calvert Homeschool Online program.

I was given access for three students to use the program. Available for PC or Mac (we use a Mac in our home), it is compatible with most web browsers on both systems. We actually have access with the program to over 45 courses!

Amazing customer service!
Let me start by saying this: this program is INTENSE. It is deep. It is huge. It is designed to be the core of your homeschooling program in one website. It is full of everything you need. When I first opened it up, I couldn't help but think, "I'll never figure this out. It's SO much." But folks their customer service is second-to-none. I had a wonderful gal call me and check on me. She spent nearly an hour on the phone answering every question I had and showing me how this program worked. She encouraged me to call back and ask any questions I needed. I truly felt like, "Wow! I can do this now!"

Easy setup
Setting up the program was really pretty simple. The program really walked me through it. And if you have any trouble? Check the note above regarding their customer service!


Features
Some really cool features include:

• Automatic grading: yay for the teacher!
• Automatic updating: (as content needs to change, it changes, unlike with textbooks!)
• No installs: We can just log-in and use it. 
• Placement tests: More about that below!
• Totally green: Forget all the paper and textbooks. It's all electronic!

Pricing
This program runs $39.95 a month for one child. You can also purchase it yearly for $399.95 for the year. If you want to get the maximum three students, it would be $699.95 for the year. Or you can purchase it monthly for $69.95 a month. While this may seem like a lot of money, when you consider that this could be your family's complete cost of homeschool education, it actually isn't very steep at all.

Courses
As mentioned above, there are over 45 programs that you can choose from with this program. Here is a breakdown of what those programs actually are:

• Kindergarten:
• Language Arets
• Math

• 1st Grade and 2nd Grade:
• History & Geography
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science 

• 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grades:
• History & Geography
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Spelling 

• 7th Grade:
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• World Civilizations

• 8th Grade: 
• History & Geography
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science

• 9th Grade: 
• Algebra I
• Coordinate Algebra
• English I
• Integrated Physics & Chemistry
• World Geography

• 9th-12the Grade:
• Consumer Math
• Goverment
• U.S. History Foundations to Present 
• World History (9th-11th)
• Analytic Geometry (10th)
• Biology (10th)
• English II (10th)

You can see from the chart above that the programs basically around the four major "core" classes for students: English, History, Math, and Science.

What it looks like inside
In order to show you how this program works, let's just into 14-year-old Gabe's work. He is an 8th grade. Here is a screen shot of the science program he is working through:

You can see that Gabe is working through History and Geography 800. It shows his start date and all the different sections that he is working through.

Now let's skip over to 12-year-old Ana who is taking World Civilizations. Here is a screen shot of one of her lesson pages:

My second-grader, Abigail, who is 8, was working on a spelling program while she tried out the program. Here is a screen shot of one of her assignments:

A few last details
I wanted to take a second to note that this is not a Christian program. I did not find anything to be a problem, but there may be things you don't see eye-to-eye with the program on. However, please note, that you can skip over anything you don't want your student to study. It's super simple to do that.

Also, I honestly could only touch the surface of this program during this review. It is such a HUGE, BIG program. So you really need to dive in and look for yourself. As always, feel free to message me with any questions or concerns or comments you have. I'm glad to give you more information!

You can also find out much, much more about Calvert at the following locations:

• Facebook
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• Instagram
• Pinterest  

And, as always, don't take MY word for it. You can read tons more about Calvert Homeschool and specifically, their Calvert Homeschool Online program via other Bloggers.Read some of the reviews from my friends over at the Homeschool Review Crew by clicking on the image below:

   

Review: Channie's Visual Handwriting & Math workbooks

A fun review is going up today. This is for Channie's Visual Handwriting & Math workbooks. Our group reviewed four different products which included:

• Channie's Dry Erase Flashcard For Alphabet & Number (ages 4-6)
• Channie's Dry Erase Flashcard for Sight Words (ages 5-6)
• Neat Numbers (ages 3-5)
• One Page A Day 2 Digit Multiplication Practice (Grades 3-5)

The last one was the one that we reviewed here at our home: One Page A Day 2 Digit Multiplication Practice (Grades 3-5)!

This is a VERY simple product. I honestly keep trying to figure out what to say about it, but there is so little to explain and so little to show because it is just that NEAT and SIMPLE! We LOVED this product and think it is a fantastic idea to include in your homeschool curriculum. It is a consumable workbook designed to help teachers/parents simplify multiplication learning. Here is a sample page for you to see how the workbook looks:

That's it. The student tears out a page and does the sheet. That's it!  There are 50 pages in the workbook. Each page has 25 problems all that are 2-digit. The workbook starts very easy as seen above and then moves to pages like this by the end:

I used this program with my second grader, Abigail, who is just starting to work on 2-digit multiplication. Here are some things we both loved about this workbook:

• Color Coded! This really helps guide the student and keep them from being confused!
• Lots of Workspace!  Big space to work is so helpful!
• Easily tears out! No possible rips. Very easy to do the worksheet on the front and then the back and then just throw it away!

Here is a picture of Abigail working through one of the pages:

In addition to the One Page A Day 2 Digit Multiplication Practice workbook, Channie's gave us (just for fun for doing the review!) a book on fractions as well. You can find our more by visiting them on Facebook or Instagram.

***I also wanted to note that the vendor is working to create a brand new app that is compatible with their product. I was unable to view this, however, this could be another fantastic addition to your product usage as well so stay-tuned!!!

Also, please take a moment to click on the link below to find out much much more about all the wonderful products that Channie's Visual Handwriting & Math workbooks has to offer.

Review: Excelerate SPANISH -- Excelerate SPANISH Streaming

In our home we decided to let each of our kids choose their own foreign language. I really wanted to do Turkish with my kids as that's my second language (barely!) but we decided that it probably wasn't the most useful and wanted to give the kids the opportunity to choose their own language. Isaac is learning French. Abigail is taking sign language on her own and with Ms. Anni. And Sidge is doing Spanish. For this review we therefore had Sidge use this program for this review: Excelerate SPANISH Streaming from Excelerate SPANISH.

We received a one-year streaming membership for both levels 1 and 2. The program is $14.97 a month. You can also buy the entire level and watch it on DVD if you prefer not to use the streaming service.  

Your purchase of the streaming service includes:

•  24 Lessons in Spanish 1 (averaging 45 minutes each)
•  24 Lessons in Spanish 2 (averaging 45 minutes each)
•  Vocabulary review and practice FREE on the Quizlet website. This includes flashcards, games, and quizzes.
• Unlimited personal support. 

***Physical books are also available and option for purchase which provide reinforcement, practice, and review.

Excelerate SPANISH is super easy to use. It is possible for children of all ages to use this program which makes it perfect for a homeschooling family. You simply login to the program and see the videos along the right side of the screen as shown in the screenshot below:

You then click on the video you want to watch and get started:

Excelerate SPANISH uses gestures, action sequences, skits, and stories to help bring success. You can read more about their method by clicking here. But to quickly summarize, I'll say this: 

The program uses a TPR or Total Physical Response theory to help with learning. This is a gesturing activity used with the idea that it is activating various motor cortices of the brain making it easier to learn a language. In each lesson, there is an introduction of new vocabulary and structures. The student sees the word on the white board, hears the pronunciation, and then models a gesture for each word or phrase. The program does not force the learner to speak. The TPR method sees this as anxiety-provoking.

We are going to continue to use this program in our home as I think it offers a lot of positive aspects. However, I am a still a bit up in the air regarding this program. I was hoping that it would be something Sidge could just sit down and do on his own. But he often felt overwhelmed with how much was coming at him in the program. I really think this is something that parents need to be sitting with the student and helping them pause it, discuss it, and take notes with them. I also think the "optional" workbooks are something that we should use with the program and that they really aren't so optional. 

Personally, I am more of a hands-off homeschooling Mama. I like programs that allow the child to "mostly" work through it without my direct involvement. This is necessary because there are so many children in my home that I am schooling. I think that if I was using this with all my kids at once, that would be possible. But without that, it's pretty challenging. We are going to keep trying the program, but I am honestly unable at this point to give a totally positive or negative review. I am a bit torn.

While I didn't see a free video on the website, I would encourage you to see if you can view one of the lessons before deciding if this is the right fit for your family. I think the TPR method is something I am unfamiliar with and so I can't really speak to its success. However, it appears to really have some substantial background that could be very helpful for learning a new language.

You can also find out more about Excelerate SPANISH from:

•  Facebook
•  Twitter
•  Pinterest

   

 

Review: Progeny Press Study Guides

I am doing a video review for Progeny Press. Specifically, we are reviewing two of their e-guides: Little House on the Prairie Study Guide (Grades 4-6) and Hound of the Baskervilles Study Guide (Grades 9-12). You will also notice that our review team reviewed two other products so please take the time to check out some of the other reviews by clicking the link below:

You can also find out more about Progeny Press by visiting them at: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest.

My video was getting lengthy so I didn't mention every single thing about this product. Here are some points you won't hear about tin the video that I think are worth including:

• One thing I didn't mention in the video specifically is that these guides are reproducible. That means you can use them with multiple students! A real win! Once you buy it, you own it and can use it again for other students in your family. 
• There are full Pinterest boards for each and every guide for more hands-on projects for kinesthetic learners.  

Review: HiGASFY Art History Video Series

HiGASFY Art History Video Series allows you to add art education to your homeschool simply and easily. It is a subscription-based video series designed for students in grades 1-8. The letters HiGASFY stand for Have I Got a Story for you. For $15 a month your family receives access to the following art eras:

• Renaissance
• Baroque
• Impressionist 
• Post-Impressionist

The video program is lead by Mrs. Beth and her peppy side-kick Gasfy as pictured below in this screen shot I captured:

Beth is incredibly engaging and examines each of the art eras by introducing three different famous artists. Each of the four eras includes 12 videos which are each under 30 minutes in length. But I want to make sure I point out that while this IS a video series, each era also includes a "curriculum bundle." This includes 16 lesson plans to go along with the video series. Here is a snap shot of one of the lesson plans from the Renaissance era:

Let's look closer at the Renaissance lessons plans in bullet form below:

• Lesson 1: Portfolio (no video)
• Lesson 2: Introduction the the Renaissance
• Lesson 3: Leonardo da Vinci
• Lesson 4: Leonardo da Vinci
• Lesson 5: Leonardo da Vinci
• Lesson 6: Leonardo da Vinci
• Lesson 7: Leonardo da Vinci
• Lesson 8: Free Draw (no video)
• Lesson 9: Michelangelo 
• Lesson 10: Michelangelo 
• Lesson 11: Michelangelo 
• Lesson 12: Michelangelo 
• Lesson 13: Free Draw (no video)
• Lesson 14: Raphael
• Lesson 15: Raphael
• Lesson 16: Free Draw (no video)

The lesson plans include:

• Suggested art activities
• Vocabulary words
• Writing assignments
• Cross-curricular activities in Geography, History, and Science

Along with each of the lesson plans are FLASHCARDS that you can print and quiz the student on the different authors from that era. Is a screen shot of one of these below:

While I like the idea of the flashcards, to be honest, anything that requires substantial printing of color/ink is expensive for homeschool parents, so instead, I really like the PowerPoint "game" that you can download and quiz your student on different artists and their pieces. This is basically flashcards right on the computer screen.

(There is also a Biblical component that you can include if you'd like. This "allowance" means that non-Christian families can use this easily as well.)

I encourage you to download the FREE video lesson to see one for yourself by clicking here so you can see them for yourself.

We watched these with all nine of the kiddos in our homeschool. These children range in age from 5-14. I will say that I thought the videos were very well done. The only "small" complaint we had about the videos is that the character Gasfy was well-liked by the little kids. That may not seem like a "complaint"; however, here is where the complaint comes into play. The older kids found him "juvenile." However, the little kids were really too young to get much out of the videos. So the people who liked Gasfy weren't really the "right" age range. This is a very small issue, but I wanted to point it out nonetheless.

Here's how the grade-levels fall in our homeschool and how each of them did with the program:

• 2 Kindergarteners: Loved GASFY but the program was mostly over her head. 
• First Grader: Loved GASFY but the program was mostly over her head. 
• Second Grader: Liked GASFY and was able to watch and get some stuff out of the program. 
• Three Fifth Graders: Found GASFY "okay" and enjoyed the videos and got a lot out of them. 
• 1 Seventh & 1 Eighth Grader: Found GASFY was too juvenile but enjoyed the videos and got maximum knowledge out of them. 

Here's what I do like. HiGASFY Art History Video Series an be as intensive or "hands-off" as you like. You can just let your kiddos watch the videos and leave it at that. Or you can use the lesson plans and PowerPoint/flashcards. It can easily be utilized without a lot of pre- or post-work from you the teacher.

Here's a video of my cousin, Hannah, doing the program with our nine kiddos:

And here's our dog Ritter listening to the program:

Our overall feeling about this program is that it is very well done and also VERY informative. I don't think I would want to pay $15 a month for an entire year to use this program. However, if you paid $15 for a 4 month period and spent one month on each era, I think it would be a very prudent financial decision.

You can also check out HiGASFy on:

• Facebook
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• YouTube
• Instagram

Review: Zeezok Publishing Review

I love all the reviews I get to do for the Homeschool Review Crew. However, every once in awhile, I stumble upon something that is really fantastic ... superior ... and just simply outstanding! Something that makes me SO excited to have the opportunity to review these products. And this is one of them. For the last seven weeks, we have been reviewing Music Appreciation Book 2: for the Middle Grades from Zeezok Publishing.  "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." Martin Luther

I didn't grow up loving music or even listening to it that much. But I married a man who has a great appreciation for music and different genres. We have had our four children in piano since they were all five years old. I have been taking lessons for the last years. And our oldest son (Isaac) has a very special talent for music that is in his DNA. He feels music and sees music and plays music in a very special way.  I was therefore extremely excited to have the opportunity to review this musical product. This product comes with a main "textbook" (shown in the picture below as the bottom book) and then a bunch of different books featuring all kinds of different composers:

Here are the different books that come with this curriculum and are pictured in the picture above:

• Frederic Chopin, Early Years
• Frederic Chopin, Later Years
• Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff
• Adventures of Richard Wagner
• Stephen Foster and His Little Dog Tray
• The Young Brahms
• The Story of Peter Tchaikovsky
• Peter Tchaikovsky and the Nutcracker Ballet (not pictured)
• Edward McDowell and his Cabin in the Pines

This series is structured to be a thorough music appreciation program with an introduction to music theory. Each composer is allotted four weeks, however, you can make this shorter or longer depending on how thorough you want to be. It is a physical product but includes an online component. I used this program with my two fifth grade boys. There was no way, during this review period, that we could even touch the surface of this program as there is simply SOOOO much there.  This post will simply be an attempt to share just a bit of how the program works for you. We finished the first composer (Chopin) and started on the second (Schumann).  We started off by having the boys read a chapter of the first book in the series: Frederic Chopin. Here is Isaac reading below:

After that, they would go to their Music Appreciation book and answer questions that went with what they read. I decided to let my boys work through it together for this review so that they could both give me their opinion on the product. If you wanted to use this program with two kids, you would simply need to buy a second workbook. (They can share all the reading books.) Here is a picture of just one of their completed workbook pages:

The Chopin section was around 60 pages. At the end of the unit, there is a quiz. Now take a moment and check out the QR Code at the top left of the page! If you use your phone and click on that, the quiz will pop up right on your phone for you to do the quiz!

The "Answer Key" for each unit is at the end of the section. I like this! The kids can check their answers themselves!

And the QR codes are numerous throughout this book. They are all over the place and let you listen to different music by that actual composer. 

I wanted to take an opportunity to show you how many different activities (geared for ALL learning styles!) there are available in every single unit. Each section of the book runs relatively the same but with TONS of variety. For example, in breaking down the section on Brahms, the student would: 

• WEEK ONE
• Read Chapter 1: This is in the separate book. 
• Answer Comprehension Questions: These are in the actual workbook. 
• Character Qualities: Read about Brahm's character qualities.
• Tidbits of Interest: Read about some tidbits of interest covering Brahm's life. (At the bottom of this page, there is an "App Alert" which allows you to see what Brahm's view would have been from the Alster Pavilion)
• Brahm's Journeys: Study Brahm's journeys as a well-traveled man (this includes some questions about map-reading -- another great addition!)
• Family Life: Read about his family life.
• Life at 24 Bacon Alley: This section allows you to read about what his life would have been like where he lived. (At the bottom of this page is a bonus "Journal Entry" that you can use with your journal if you choose to add this part to your study. This particular entry asks you to list adjectives in your journal that describe how his home may have looked, smelled, sounded felt. This activity gives your student an opportunity to understand what an adjective is.) 
• Number Sequencing Challenge: I love things like this which they include! It relates to the unit but allows the students to use a different type of learning and stretch their brains in different ways. This particular example discusses how Johannes enjoyed playing with lead soldiers even as he neared thirty. The activity asks your student to come up with their own formation using number sequencing!
• Do You Have an Ear for Music?: This section discusses some musical terms like absolute pitch, relative pitch, good inner ear and more. 
• Components of Music (Part 1): This section discusses contextual elements that shape the development of music (like time, location, culture, history, current events, social and political climate.) The second section discusses style of music. 
• WEEK TWO
• Read Chapter 2:
• Answer Comprehension Questions:
• Character Qualities:
• Tidbits of Interest:
• The Great Fire of 1842:
• Brahms and the Piano:
• German Semolina Pudding:  A recipe for a sweet milk pudding that was one of the gifts neighbors brought to help Hannes recuperate more quickly.
• Brahms and His Books: An encouragement to kids to start reading. This includes a list of books from different genres; it explains and gives examples of different types of genres of books. (There's an App Alert! here which provides a reference list of literary genre definitions.) 
• Components of Music (Part 2): This one gets into dynamics, tempo, symbols, articulation, and phrasing. This provides an opportunity for students to compare and contrast the expressive elements used in musical scores. 
• WEEK THREE
• Read Chapter 3:
• Answer Comprehension Questions:
• Listen to music tracks 1-3 on the Music Appreciation app:
• Character Qualities:
• Tidbits of Interest:
• From Hamburg to Winsen: In addition to showing pictures of these locations, there is another "Journal Entry" here where the student can  identify adjectives and adverbs in the phrases included in descriptions of cities. 
• The Three B's of Classical Music: Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms! (This section has a connection to a lapbook and another journaling option.) 
• Creating Your Own Music: An opportunity for your student to compose their own piece. Super fun!
• Music and Technology: An entire page showing how technology can help people create music.
• WEEK FOUR
• Read Chapter 4:
• Answer Comprehension Questions:
• Listen to music tracks 4-10 on the Music Appreciation app:
• Character Qualities:
• Tidbits of Interest:
• Brahm's Life (1833-1897):
• Ginger Cookies
• "Good Evening, Good Night"
• Through the Influence of Many
• German Requiem
• In Memory of Johannes Brahms
• Brahms Word Search and Riddles
• Time to Evaluate

Guys, I could go on and on and on about this product. Really! It is just absolutely CHOCKED full of learning opportunities. You can use this in multiple ways such as:

• Just use the workbook and books (like we did!)
• Add the journal for a writing aspect.
• Add the lapbook for another aspect.

You can purchase this program and really use it for a combination of a ton of different subject areas like history and literature and grammar and music! There is so much available. So many opportunities!! For more information, please check out Zeezok Publishing at: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and Instagram. WE LOVED THIS PROGRAM!!!!!!! Feel free to email me at: wkitsteiner@gmail.com for personal conversation with me about this great program from Zeezok Publishing: Music Appreciation Book 2: for the Middle Grades.

Also, please check out reviews from my fellow review team members by clicking on the link below: