These ideas came from here and a few other articles on that site. I’m compiling them…

– Ask children how the music makes them feel, encourage them to dance to it.
– Make art while listening, have them paint what they think the music says or how they feel about it.
– Learn about orchestras and play games to match the instruments to the right section (brass, woodwind, percussion, strings.)
– Regarding lessons: let the teacher critique, you encourage and cheer.
– If it’s within family/church standards, let them play whatever music they enjoy.
– For the first practice after lessons, sit with your child to make sure they remember what they need to work on for the week.
– Keep lessons brief for little ones, two short practice sessions instead of one long one.
– Don’t overlook the importance (and effort) of theory. I’ll be using some of this to learn about theory myself!

We’ll be using this list for composer ideas after we finish up Mozart. I think we may do a brief overview and do one composer per month, instead of per semester. So that means for the next year we’ll do:
Gabrieli for October.
Bach for November.
Handel for December (that’s fitting!)
Lully for January.
Monteverdi for February.
Vivaldi for March.
Beethoven for April.
Hadyn for May.
Mozart for June.
Berlioz for July.
Bizet for August.
Brahms for September.

Update: Scratch that, I can’t find anything about some of these composers at the library so instead we’ll do time periods for a couple months and see what I can find from the more famous composers. Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic.