It's amazing to me how much homeschooling has refined me as a person and as a mother. God has laid it on my heart to work on PATIENCE this year. He has impressed upon me the importance of RELATIONSHIP and SLOWING DOWN. During a week where a lot of things went haywire (ill parents, broken appliances, pre-teen attitudes, etc...), I drew on strength I wasn't quite aware I possessed.

Homeschooling means your children are privy to all that goes in your life. There is no "when the kids go to school" so you can deal with the messiness of life. My kids are right there dealing with all of it with me, and this week I witnessed that this is a beautiful thing. People talk about homeschoolers being "sheltered" and not ready for the "real world", and I just couldn't disagree more.

Music appreciation is one of those areas that gets pushed to last place (or sometimes no place at all) in many homeschools.

Over the past year I have tried to help families incorporate BEAUTIFUL music into their days.

Super Quiet UnInterrupted Listening Time (SQUILT) is a music appreciation curriculum that is designed to make teaching music easy, fun, and meaningful.

Each SQUILT volume consists of 10 lessons. Each lesson highlights a piece of music and includes all information you will need to learn about that piece in depth. It includes notebooking pages, supplemental listening links, and fun activities. The best thing?

All you need to complete a SQUILT lesson is an internet connection and basic school supplies.

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