Music:
Wolferl, the first six years in the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1762–Weil
Mozart, the Wonder Boy–Wheeler
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ein Kleine Nachtmusik K.365

Mission Study:
1. Windows on the World: Minangkabau
2. WotW: Sundanese

Poems:
Anne Bradstreet. We’re reading her poems not because she has anything to do with Australia, but because my American Literature at homeschool co-op is studying Bradstreet this week.

Science:
Boats

Nonfiction Read Alouds:
FACES: Australia through Time
KIDS Discover: Australia

Fiction Read Alouds:
Ice Drift–Taylor
And the Word Came With Power–Shetler

Picture Books:
My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch–Base
Koala Lou–Fox
Are We There Yet?–Lester
The Muddle-headed Wombat–Park
Diary of a Wombat–French
Pete the Sheep Sheep–French
Wombat Stew–Vaughan
We’ve already read several of these picture books, and so far my favorite is Diary of a Wombat while Z-baby likes Wombat Stew.

Elementary Readers:
Don’t Pat the Wombat–Honey
Walkabout–Marshall This book may be too hard for elementary age chidren, but I’m going to re-read it and see if I remember it accurately.
Storm Boy–Thiele Colin Thiele, the author of this book, just died last week. His most famous book, Storm BOy, was also made inot a movie. It’s about a boy and a pelican.
Blue Fin–Thiele
The Magic Pudding–Lindsay
The Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill–Wall

Movies:
Amadeus (for the older set)
Man from Snowy River

I got some of these ideas from the comments on my last curriculum post. Don’t be shy; if you have suggestions about what books, movies, or other resources we shouldn’t miss before leaving Australia to travel on through the South Pacific, please leave your ideas in the comment section.