Teaching music appreciation is an important component to homeschooling. While many don’t believe this to be true, music appreciation can be just as vital as the core subjects you teach from home. Music can serve as a foundation of math learning. Music can inspire creative thinking, writing, and dramatic reading. Music can bring peacefulness to the school day, or lift spirits when the winter doldrums hit. Music can energize and get kids motivated to move.

Homeschooling allows us to dive into subjects that many public schools are abandoning. Often this is due to very tight budgets. Other times it’s because those subjects simply aren’t found on the state mandated tests. Music appreciation is one of those subjects. But in homeschooling, we can embrace these subjects. That’s why I’m bringing you this music appreciation resources list.  This post contains affiliate advertisement links.  Books to Use as a Guide for Music Appreciation for Homeschool I believe, that music appreciation should be taught through listening, observation and participation. But,  sometimes we need to have a guide for what to introduce to our kids. I suggest using these books to…