Walt Disney World announces the Spring 2017 Youth Education Series – Student Seminars formerly known as Homeschool Days. The homeschool event will be on April 11, 2017, and highlights the DisneyNature movie Born in China. The event will take place in Epcot. Born in China tells the story of Pandas, golden monkeys, and snow …
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Jack-Jack doesn’t realize he’s learning when he watches Disney movies. He just watches them because he loves the characters and the music. There is something in them that speaks to him. I allow him to watch them because I know that I can reach him through the movies. Jack-Jack’s favorite movie is Beauty and the …
“One of the most timeless and universal coming-of-age films ever, Bambi ranks with the very greatest of Disney’s classic masterpieces.” Steven D. Greydanus, Rotten Tomatoes Walt Disney’s Bambi was released in August, 1942, and is based on the book, Bambi, A life in the Woods, by Felix Salten. Bambi is considered one of the top 100 …
Walt Disney’s Fantasia movie poster SCHOOLING WITH WALT DISNEY’S FANTASIA – PART 2 In my previous post, Walt Disney’s Fantasia – Part 1, I gave a quick background of the movie and then covered the first three segments of the film, which included Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johannes Sebastian Bach, The Nutcracker …
Walt Disney’s Fantasia movie poster HOME SCHOOLING WITH WALT DISNEY’S FANTASIA – PART 1 (This post does contain some affiliate links.) Walt Disney’s Fantasia was released in 1940 and had a unique approach to animation. The animators involved in this work took classical music and interpreted those pieces into animation. Leopold Stokowski conducted the music …