Please join me today for Home School Talk at 1PM CST (you can also listen to the archives later). I will be interviewing Stephanie Troeller and Mary Kate Mellow, two stay-at-home moms with ballet-loving children. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a lack of quality ballet videos meant for young children so, like any good parents, they made one themselves. The end result is a lovely DVD: Prima Princessa Presents Swan Lake. It incorporates young children dancing, toys and clips from the ballet Swan Lake performed by the Paris Opera Ballet.
If I can get the audio to transfer and upload, I’ll include my three year old’s commentary as well. But “Can we watch it again?” is about the highest praise bestowed on a video by a young child. And she has said that numerous times.
And of course I will be sharing bits of news and other opinions relating (however indirectly) to homeschooling.
In the meantime, we have made our own video. I doubt I’ll be going on tour to promote it anytime soon, nor will it show up on Amazon. But we are excited…we are the proud grandparents of five brand new baby gerbils, born Sunday morning to Kit Kat (the black female) and Buttercup (the blond father).
Aren’t they adorable? Now that the house is still, and the children are no longer hovering over the cage, I can hear their soft squeaks. But I need to start finding homes for them. We’re keeping one. Don’t know which, but Bear decided to name it Lollipop in keeping with the candy theme started with the other two.
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Disclosure: I received a copy of the DVD for free in exchange for a review on the show. My three year old’s opinions, however, are not swayed by such things.
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The DVD looks lovely! Sunshine wants to take dance classes so badly. Maybe someday, but right now we are inventing our own. Hopefully we can add this movie to our collection. I’ll put it on our Christmas wish list.
It is a nice video. I liked how they broke up the ballet with kids playing and toys to teach some terms and basic steps. It kept my my kids’ attention, anyway.
My fault…stay-at-home moms, not homeschool moms. Corrected.
As a “grandmother” to gerbils, let me just say that you may want to entertain the possibility of *not* keeping any of the babies. When our babies got older, Mama wanted them ALL out. She became very adamant, to the point of extreme violence. Hopefully, your gerbil family won’t be so divided.
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