Hey, First name / friend!
They say confession is good for the soul. Apparently, my confession yesterday hit a nerve. I got more emails back than I usually do! That confession also motivated me to get in gear for next week's soft school start.
This morning I decided to go ahead and make my playlists for the upcoming year. Well, most of them.
Many of you may know I create Gathering Playlists every month for our Gathering tradition. I share them each month. In our home, we listen to them every day! Some of them have grown so beloved by our music-interested 5-year-old, they are requested for months after we have moved on. October of last year gets requested the most. And my older daughters ask for Prince Igor (yes, requesting Classical music!) along with my son!
But the Gathering Playlists are only one of the ways we sneak music and audio into our days. I also create playlists for our Classical Conversations memory work review, playlists for our Conlatio, playlists for cleaning, playlists for Latin, playlists for days! The reason I do this is we ALL learn through music!
That said, creating playlists is not always as easy as going to Spotify to find all the music and compiling it into a playlist. We have a number of digital downloads or CDs we use in our homeschool. And we are not iPhone or Apple users and we don't use Alexa devices, so I had to search out a solution that would work for us.
And I thought I would share it with you as part of Homeschool Prep Month.
Here's what I do to create non-Spotify playlists for our homeschool.
1. I gather the songs I want to use. For Classical Conversations, I rip the CDs - wow that is such an old-fashioned thing to say! - onto my computer. I also pull together our favorite CC memory work songs created by other CC mamas. I highly recommend CC Happy Mom for Geography and The Musical Mama for Math Songs.
Both of these downloadable resources are extremely affordable and WORTH EVERY PENNY!!