Oboe and English Horn Presentation 2015

Today we had an Oboe and English Horn presentation for the grade 2's and in a couple of weeks another presentation for the Grade 5 students. The students learned about the history of the instruments, how they are made, how sound is produced and even learned that all professional Oboe and English Horn players make their own double reeds!! Since we had just been to the WSO on Jan.20, we knew about these woodwind instruments and it was really neat to see them up close and personal. The grade 2's enjoyed passing around the cane that was imported from France to be made into reeds. They also had a lot of very good questions like "When did you learn how to play the oboe" and how is the English Horn made? Thank You to one of our LM parents Mrs. Wright for taking the time to come and in show us her oboe. You should have heard her play, it was amazing! No wonder she sometimes plays with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, we are very lucky.

Fairy Tales

This month for "I Love to Read" month, our school is focusing on Fairy Tales and we are going to have fun with this theme in the music room as well. The Grade 4's have already started learning a song from a very new fairy tale that has been made into a musical. They will have something very special to perform at the end of the month assembly! The Kindergartens are going to have some fun with Goldilocks, the grade 2's have sung a funky song about everyone's favourite Gingerbread Man. The Grade 1's have been working hard to get a non-traditional fairy tale ready for performance as well. The Grade 3's are in the middle of a very intense unit on "The Planet's" so we are going to take a break one of these days to learn about Waltzing Matilda, a folk song from Australia. Even though, some of these on not traditionally fairy tales, we are going to have fun with them and see if they fit in some of the fairy tale criteria that we will be learning about.The Grade 5's will be learning about a fairy tale from the Caribbean since we are learning about Caribbean music and culture this term. Below is the book that we are going to be reading together "Jolly Mon" with a song by Jimmy Buffet to go with it.