We did a composer study on Mozart to find out. Check out the video we saw to learn a little about him.
Mozart lived from 1756-1791. At the age of 3 he began playing piano with his father and his sister, and began touring Europe to perform with them.
Travel for performances or composing throughout Europe meant moving about by stagecoach, like the one pictured above. Sometimes the Mozart family would be away from home for weeks, months, or years at a time.
Throughout their travels they saw many sights, stayed in the homes of family members or friends, and made new friends along the way.
COVID-19 has put a lot of travel restrictions on us over the last year. So let’s use Mozart to help us travel to places we might not get to, or places Mozart has never been.
If you do get a chance to travel, take Mozart with you! If you are staying home then you can show him what a day in your house looks like. Show him around town, take him on a bike ride, and snap the best picture of it!
Or, you can use google slides to create the image of a place you wish you could travel to, and place Mozart in the picture!
This project works the same way as "Flat Stanley." Take a picture, or create your own, of Mozart in a place you visited or wish you could go to. The journal of Mozart's adventures will be on his Twitter page. You will see where he has been, who he has been with, and places students sent him to.
Posting on twitter will be done by the Sayville Elementary School music teachers or by parents/adult relatives at home.
*If you do not want your in school projects posted on social media by your music teacher please let them know.
The entire Twitter feed, or journal, can be viewed on the home page of this site, or you can follow him on your personal Twitter account.
See the Project Materials page for more info on how to create another Flat Mozart, or send him to a distant relative.