Teaching Kids Classical Music
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I love music. I have been a singer my whole life. I play guitar & minored in music in college. I feel like it is so important to teach my children to love all kinds of music as well. We have found a couple of things that we love for teaching kids about composers and classical music.
First of all, I listen to the classical music station in my car while driving lots of the time. My kid have started asking who’s music is playing, and have also started picking out various instruments that are playing in the pieces that we are listening to. I love hearing my 6-year-old son saying Mom- these are violins playing- or I hear the piano there. It’s makes me smile!
There is a fantastic website called Classics For Kids that we frequent at least once a week. They have weekly broadcasts that teach you about different composers. The broadcast is only 6 minutes long (not too long for littler ones) and they focus one one composer for an entire month. Along with the broadcast there is a little quiz for the kids to do while listening, and an activity page you can print.
This website also has lesson plans, games, a section to learn about the instruments in the orchestra, and different musical periods. You can listen to music from many classical composers, too. I think you can buy CD’s of all of their broadcasts if you want.
Along with that, I found these GREAT CD’s at the library that my kids love. There is a series of them called Classical Kids
. They are stories of the different composers lives set to their music. My kids have listened to them over and over. They love the stories, and even recognize music from the composers now. There are two volumes if you buy the complete set, but they also have each one sold individually. I was lucky enough to find them at our local library. 
. They are stories of the different composers lives set to their music. My kids have listened to them over and over. They love the stories, and even recognize music from the composers now. There are two volumes if you buy the complete set, but they also have each one sold individually. I was lucky enough to find them at our local library. A few other neat websites to teach kids about music:
http://www.sphinxkids.org/index.html
http://www.classicalkusc.org/kids/ I especially love their Hansel & Gretel Opera Interactive
What favorites do you have?
Try Beethoven’s Wig CD series (1-4). The first section contains music by various composers with the silliest lyrics (ie: Beethoven’s wig, it’s really big!). The second section is just the music without lyrics. My 3 (3,5 and 7 yrs) LOVE this series and know so many composers because of it. They also hum the music all day and sometimes make up their own words! I am a new follower from Boost My Blog Hop. Nice to meet you! Looking forward to more ideas from you. 🙂