After our wonderful giveaway last month for the membership to The Online Ballet Studio, I decided it was time to explore ballet in art. It has certainly been an enduring and popular subject in art, and this collection includes 20 pieces from Degas, Renoir, Macke, Repin, Manet, Metcalf, and Somov. Not only are these pieces often very beautiful, but you’ll get to see different styles and approaches to depicting dance. (candid or portrait style? monochromatic color scheme, or pops of color? figure study or snapshot of the culture?)
Right now you can get this collection for FREE when you join our Subscriber Perks Membership! (which is also free!) Click here to get yours now.
It’s that time of the year again over at Homeschool Giveaways! Every year they do a big bundle of FREE stuff homeschoolers love for Black Friday. You can get it all for FREE (no purchase necessary or any “catch.”)
This year you will get 11 FREE products for your homeschool and even a few items for YOU! This package is valued at over $160 and is totally FREE!
What’s Included:
Ellen McHenry Science Curriculum
Writing Curriculum
Geography, Anatomy, Life cycles, Geology, and Astronomy Resource
Christian Coloring Book and Devotional For Teen Girls
Marriage 3-book Set
John James Audubon Set Of Copywork, Notebooking And Coloring Pages
In addition to the amazing FREEBIES, you also get access to the Black Friday Deals and Sales with savings up to 80% off on products homeschoolers love!
So…what’s the catch? I just get all of this for FREE?
Yep! If you are a subscriber over at Homeschool Giveaways then you are familiar with offers like this and know how awesome they are. If not, trust me, you want to be. They do stuff like this throughout the year and have some pretty incredible free offers for homeschoolers (even FULL curriculum!)
If you want to check out these free offers, all you have to do is click here. If you decide you want to claim it, you just enter your name and email and BAM – you get instant access!
To sweeten the deal, you get a special link you can refer your friends with. The person who refers the MOST people who also download the offer will win $200 Christmas Cash!
The holiday season can be a tricky time for homeschool families, as they try to stay on track with regular school amidst all of the schedule changes and extra activities going on. The good news is that if you make a little shift in your thinking about what’s important for your homeschool family, you can work WITH the season and enjoy learning and family time and the joy of the holidays all at once!
Right now over at Life of a Homeschool Mom there is a fun series of blog posts from tons of different homeschool bloggers who are sharing their ideas, resources, and encouragement to help you get the most out of this season! You can see a listing of all the posts in the series here. (some are already available, some are coming over the next few weeks)
I’m excited to say that I’ve joined in the fun over there, telling about the wonderfulness of Fine Art Pages, and offering our Thanksgiving and Christmas Fine Art Pages collections for FREE! Yup. For reals. So get on over there to get yours today, and please do let your friends and fellow homeschoolers know about this, because I’d like to help everybody make their holidays more beautiful and enriching this year! You can click any of the share buttons below to give us a shout out in facebook or twitter, or pin this on Pinterest. Thanks. 🙂
Many years ago when my daughter Haley was a little tot, she loved to twirl and dance like a little ballerina. She had gone to some local ballet classes, one of which was only temporary, the other of which became too far for us to travel to after we moved. With a growing tribe of little ones and a limited budget, combined with a location that had no nearby dance classes, I was at a loss for what to do for her, until I found some delightful instructional videos for little girls. Perfect! From there she was able to pop a video into the VCR and take her ballet class anytime she wanted. What a relief to find such a practical and lovely solution to our need!
Fast forward to today, and we have modern options that are much greater than what we had all those years ago. The Online Ballet Studio offers quality video lessons and tutorials for young dancers, ages 5-12 years of age. This outreach of the Brunswick School of Dance in Australia offers your child technical training and ballet lessons at your convenience! New lessons are added to the membership each month, and you can login and take a class anytime you like.
Even better–your child will get an official uniform sent to them when they enroll, no matter where you live! (Boy and girl uniforms are available and they even include shoes!) Can you imagine how delighted your little dancer will be to receive their ballet outfit in the mail and find out that they can now take ballet lessons from the comfort of home? AWESOME!
Children that attend dance class but would enjoy more practice at home
Families that live too far from a quality ballet school, or for whom dance classes are beyond their budget
Children that are very shy or struggle in social settings, but thrive with home learning
Instructor Josephine Woodberry has 20 years of experience in teaching ballet. Her Online Ballet Studio classes offer many benefits:
Promotes strength, flexibility, and agility
Develops an understanding of music and rhythm
Boosts concentration
Generates a love of movement
Improves coordination, posture, and balance
Features beautiful music and real children demonstrating the movements
Complimentary uniform when you join!
The Online Ballet Studio costs just $69.95 AU (which is around $50 US) for six months of unlimited lessons, which is a HUGE BARGAIN, especially considering that your child will get a complete uniform mailed to them as well! WOW! Definitely a win for all families that want to encourage creativity, the arts, and physical fitness into their homes. You can even try it FREE for a week to see how great it is!
“These guys are amazing! Matilda diligently practices of her own accord and on her own impulse multiple times a week. The program has opened up the world of dance to us in a way that we need in this season of life… From home… Plus, the free uniform is PURPLE! Could they have done more to pull her in!”
~Elizabeth (Mother)
“Congratulations. It’s beautiful! I like very much your selection of what to focus on. Of course, there’s a million things you could make videos on but you’ve honed in on the fundamentals. I’m really glad that you’ve created this. It’s an excellent initiative.”
~Helen (RAD RTS Ballet Teacher)
“Being out in the country, you really need to grab every opportunity you can. These kids don’t have a lot of exposure to the things big city kids take for granted. I don’t know how to quantify how much it means to Eloise and the family.”
~Sue (Grandmother)
“Just a quick email to thank you so much for the ballet at home leotard set which you sent for my daughter. She was delighted to receive it this morning. She has used your online classes already and has enjoyed them so much! They are a wonderful idea and I hope you will have many subscribers. What an amazing way to bring your wonderful teaching to so many children around the world!”
~Charlotte (Mother)
“I think the classes are really fun because I learn all sorts of fun stuff and because I really love all the moves and they are pretty.”
Affiliate links are used in this post. I’ve given great reviews to the online music classes that we are enjoying at my house. This year my teen boys are taking the 20th Century Music Appreciation course, and they just started the new Intro to Musicals course as well. (I wrote about that here) We are enjoying them both and highly recommend them to you!
These classes are set up to be easy for students to work through independently. There are lots of videos, just like what you enjoy here with Enrichment Studies resources, but there’s more direct teaching included in these courses than what we do here.
Happily, now through Nov. 30 you can get any of these courses for $10 off using coupon code BLACKFRIDAY. You get lifetime access to these classes, so even if you aren’t quite ready to jump in, you can save now and have them ready when you are.
Welcome to the Enrichment Lifestyle Blog! I'm so glad you're here. :) I'm Erica Johns, and I love to encourage homeschool moms and help them enjoy more of the beauty of the arts in everyday life.
About me: I started my homeschooling journey in 1997 and graduated the last of my six children in 2021. Amidst all the hard work, crazy days, uncertainty, and lost pencils, what I think we really gained was the gift of a lifetime: TIME TOGETHER. So awesome! Click my pic to learn more.