Why did Beethoven get rid of his chickens?
Because all they said was BACH, BACH, BACH

The kids are studying Beethoven in their piano class.  At their recital this year they will be presenting their research on Beethoven.  Lona is making an ABC book about Beethoven and writing a story from the perspective of a neighbor.  Job is writing a story as if he was a piano owned by Beethoven and trying to compose a piece of music in the style of Beethoven.  Isaac is writing a script to be filmed.  We have watched a film of someone talking about and playing some of Beethoven's pieces.  Isaac watched a Japanese cartoon of a boy cellist.  It was based on Beethoven's 6th Symphony.  We have listened to Beethoven's music.  The kids are learning to play some of his music.  One interesting fact was that Beethoven wrote the tune to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.  The words were added later by someone else.  For the last two days, we put down our regular school work and just did research on Beethoven.  We are in a process of making a large poster.  I printed off a large sketch of Beethoven from this source.  ( I had bought their history through the ages CD, he was on it).  I just noticed that they have a composer package.  I think that I'll purchase this.  I love it when activities are already thought of for you. 
Then Lona listed 10 pieces of music that Beethoven wrote (a small list in a long list of compositions).  Isaac created a timeline of 10 events in Beethoven's life.  Job colored a map and labeled where Beethoven was born and were he ended up living most of his life.  He included black and white photos of Beethoven's birth house and an appartment where he lived.  We found this site about Beethoven.  We made a large tree on cardboard and listed the people (father side down).  It has been a lot of fun but now we need to get to some other stuff.  We have learned a lot and look forward to learning more.  We may down the road have another Beethoven Day.