Feast of Ideas Week 4 - Antonio Vivaldi

Welcome to Italy - home of biscotti, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi originally was going to be a priest, a promise made by his mother after experience an earthquake the day Antonio was born. The Red Priest, named as such for his red hair, was often distracted as a priest, always composing and creating music in his head. Music was his life! He played violin, taught music at an orphanage for girls, and created some of the most popular music of all time, The Four Seasons.

Please check out the following resources to learn more about the Italian priest who couldn’t help but make music.

  • Activity Packet: (CLICK HERE)

  • Click HERE to read more about Vivaldi

  • Italian RECIPE is Biscotti All Uvetta - a raisin cookie

  • Books

    • The Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

    • I Vivaldi by Janice Shefelman

    • The Story Orchestra Four Seasons in One Day Illustrated by Jessica Courtney-Tickle

  • Music

 
 
 
 

Looking to integrate your Music lesson with Science, Art, Literature, and History into your Homeschool week? Follow these steps

The Composer Study Activity Packet (CLICK HERE)

2) Gather needed materials such as books, food, artwork, computer links, music (This week’s RECIPE is Biscotti All Uvetta - a raisin cookie)

  • Beethoven’s Wig is a WONDERFUL CD that puts funny words to well known classical music. I highly recommend listening to both the music with lyrics and the origianl work. It’s a great way for kids to develop familiarity and affinity for the music. I often have to play the CD on repeat with my daughters asking for it again and again.

3) Complete activities throughout the week (can do as many or as few as you want). Open up YouTube and search for Vivaldi, have the music playing in the background as you complete the activities each day.

Day 1

  • Listen to Song while coloring the doodle page

    Eat the food from their country while reading the living book

  • Discuss & cut out the concurrent people, places, inventions, and events that occurred during the composer’s lifetime.  Paste onto Map page. 

Day 2

  • Complete the Sequencing worksheet

  • Geography

    • Draw an outline of Italy, color a picture of the Italian flag, or work on drawing your continent

Day 3

  • Complete the Copywork Worksheet

  • Art - Vermeer

    • Read aloud a living book about the artist

    • Create your own artwork or look at Vermeer’s artwork (Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting by Adriaan E. Waiboer) while listening to The Four Seasons

Day 4

  • Complete Braille Decoding worksheet

  • Science

    • Read aloud a living book about Isaac Newton (You Wouldn’t Want to be Sir Isaac Newton! A Lonely Life You’d Rather Not Lead)

    • Watch this Video about Newton’s Life

Day 5

  • Complete the Rhythm Matching worksheet

  • History - the 13 colonies are forming

    • Read aloud: The Extraordinary Suzy Wright A Colonial Woman on the Frontier by Teri Kanefield

    • Ask for a narration

Beth Smith