Elora and Oliver have been working on composer projects. We have learned about several composers and they each wrote a little report about their favorite. We have never done anything like this in school and I am so proud of them...
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Elora and Oliver planned a concert and chose to invite our friends, Elder and Sister Green, who are on a mission here in Vienna. They will be heading home in a couple of weeks so we were excited to have them over. Elora and...
The kids have been learning about Beethoven and I found this really cool website with different “musician walks” you can go on in Vienna. I took Elora and Oliver on a Beethoven walking tour on a beautiful snowy...
The kids like to perform little concerts for the family. Often they insist we record them. Oliver especially enjoys outlining the program. Elora transposed her piano song, “There is a Green Hill Far Away” into notes...
We took the kids to the Vienna Haus der Musik. We took Oliver and Elora there years ago when they were 4 and 2, but because it is included with our Niederösterreich Card we were happy to take them again for free. The Haus der...
Friday night before the Apple Festival, I organized a concert that I was super excited about. Mark Abernathy has a band that I love and I have his CD and listen to it all the time, so I told Chris I thought it would be super cool...
I titled these posts “What we do” because we live an interesting life full of random moments that I love to take pictures of. These posts are a glimpse of the things that go on in our house on a normal day...
My mom found this great museum about music for the kids to go to. We had a great time and I hope we’ll be able to visit it again sometime. There are tons of displays where the kids actually get to try out instruments or...
I teach a Mommy and Me Music Class. Here is Oliver and his little friend Jane at Music Class last week. Oliver has made some great new friends in class and he LOVES having the other kids come over to play with the...
Here is Marion in her new dress from Chris’ Aunt Sharon. So precious. She looks like a little cupcake. And Oliver is sporting his new favorite suit that I got for him. Marion is a happy girl with her Grandpa! If it looks...