Bach composer study

So, we're studying J.S. Bach this term (I love Bach!!!) and I knew that really all I needed to do was have the girls be immersed in his music but of course, I wanted to do more,  and I figured if I can be of any help to another mom who stumbles across this looking for ideas on Bach, wonderful!!

I looked at quite a few websites and tried to get an idea of what others were doing but I didn't want to pay for anything when I could come up with my own stuff for free.  I had the girls read Opal Wheeler's book, Sebastian Bach, Boy from Thuringia, and it was wonderful. I love her books and the girls really learned a lot and appreciated him so much more after reading the book. We also plan to read aloud Thomas Tapper's The Story of the Boy Who Sang in the Streets. It was a free download onto my Kindle app and is a shorter book but it has real life pictures in it which the girls might appreciate.

I also went to this website and searched for Bach and had the girls listen to the short stories during lunch. They loved this and really enjoyed the music clips played throughout.

I'm an Amazon Prime member, so I was able to stream free Bach music onto my iPad and we listen to that ALL the time. Pretty much on repeat. If I need a change of selection, I put on the YouTube channel with Bach's violin music but I prefer Amazon's streaming.

I also typed up a music history era page and printed it off so they could see where Bach fit into history and what his time period is called.

I think I am also going to have each of them learn Minuet in G or a simpler version (for Louisa) since they both play the piano and that's about the right difficulty level for Kailyn.

                    "The aim and final end of all music is none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." J.S. Bach