Taiko Drumming with Fubuki Daiko!

We have had an amazing week of drumming with Fubuki Daiko, a world-renown Japanese drumming group from Winnipeg! I have been so amazed with what the students learned in just 4 days . . . a total of only 2 hours! You can see loads of pictures and other videos on our class Instagram account. Follow us at @mswasneysclass!

Thank you to families for coming out the the "Celebration of the Arts" evening on April 20, 2017!

Taiko Drumming from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

A GOLDen start to the week!

Today, we headed to Lakewood School to compete in the Music Festival. We performed "Simple Simon" and "A Sailor". Both pieces combined a variety of instruments, singing, and movement. They looked and sounded complicated! We earned a GOLD! A BIG thank you to Mrs. Knoll for her dedication in preparing the Grade 5s for the festival! Mrs. Dyck's class received a silver for their work.

Thank you to families for making it out to cheer us on today!

Way to go Grade 5s!!!

WSO Artwork!

 We listened to a Canadian composer Jean Coulthards song “The Contented House’’ we listened to the song first then Ms. Wasney gave us a black piece of paper then we listened to the song and drew with oil pastel what the song was like. Then we could do more if we wanted to and she put on the music over about 5 times. Everyone’s art was unique. Then when we were done it was time for the painting. It was like the same thing as the pastel except this time we were using white paper and paint. I think the paint was better than the pastel because the paint had more flow to it. Then the next day after everything was dry we took name tags and wrote our names and glued it to the back of the art. Then we would choose if we wanted to put it into the WSO art pile and the rest we kept. But you could only put one of your artworks in the WSO pile. Ms. Wasney has to bring them to the WSO drop off box and they pick someone’s artwork from the class. I really hope my art gets chosen!

By: Madelynne

A Golden Music Festival!

On Thursday, March 17, we headed to Lakewood School in St. James to compete in the Music Festival. The students in our class and Mrs. Dyck's class have been working very hard for the last few months to get in tip-top shape! They performed "Shepherd's Hey" and "Splash of Blue" as an Orff ensemble, as well as with other instruments and even a movement piece! During the last 2 weeks we had practices almost everyday! But all of that hard work paid off! They were awarded with GOLD! Yay!

Here's Jack's write-up, from his Kidblog account:

Today we went to the music festival. We got gold! I was dancing with 9 other kids.

I was not nervous. Ms. Knoll gave us golden Oreos and Ms. Ross gave us ice Cream 

Sandwiches! Yum!

Frenergy!

Last week we did an art project in our class for the WSO! We were given the chance to create art that we made listening to the music that the orchestra will play in February. The song is called Frenergy, by Canadian composer; John Estacio. We think it sounds very good!  

We painted what we heard while the music played. Some people painted 2, 3, or 4 paintings! We rate this art 5 out of 5.

By Jack and Mackenzie A         

Pay special attention to the music of our video . . . it is "Frenergy" by John Estacio, the song we painted to! Look for movement and energy in each piece of art! Enjoy! You can check out our art on Artsonia! I dropped off all of the artwork at the WSO office today. Fingers crossed some pieces are picked to be featured in a slideshow during the concert!

Christmas Concert Review!

The other day in the lab, students had a choice of reviewing the Christmas Concert or Secret Santa. It's always fun to read what their thoughts are!

Here's Jace's review of the Christmas Concert . . .

3 things to share:

One thing about the Christmas concert is that I think we did a great job singing.

I also think that it was really good how everyone was using really good loud and clear voices.

One more thing about the Christmas concert is that I think we did a really good job watching Mrs. Knoll with the actions.

2 surprising things:

One thing I was REALLY surprised with is when I had to fill in for Mackadie as a nes gadol dancer.

And one more thing is that when I went on stage I didn’t forget the steps.

1 hope:

One thing that I will hope for next time is that we can do another acting Christmas concert.   

By: Jace

Music Festival ends a busy week!

This week at school we had the music festival to end of the week. Keep reading to see more about it!

See this art on Artsonia!

One thing we did on Monday is Gym. What we did in gym is we played ringette. That class was sort of bad because we played ringette and I hate ringette. But now were done with ringette and now were playing hockey. Another thing we did Monday is art. The guy who made the art was James Rizzi bird art. James Rizzi was a famous artist because of what he did. What he did was doing his art on an airplane and did it on a pair of shoes. The art we did was a bird and the paint you use is water colour paint. 

Lever experiment for Science!

One thing we did on Tuesday is Mr. Zajac as a substitute. I like Mr. Zajac as a substitute because his brother plays in the NHL, and he is really nice to us. But one thing that I don’t like about him is he doesn’t let us talk in the computer. So that’s why I still like Miss Wasney better. Another thing we did on Tuesday is Computer. What we had to do in the computer lab is write about our European explorer person. What I did was Sir John Franklin. 

One thing we did on Wednesday is courage writing. What I wrote about is when I went to Minneapolis and we went to the mall of America and I had courage to go on the sponge bob ride and go on the drop. Another thing we did on Wednesday is gym. What we did in gym was we played zone hockey. The zone hockey was really boring because you only had to stay in one zone. But the position I played was center and I got most of the goals.

Practice, practice, practice!

One thing we did on Thursday is new class room jobs. The job I got was line leader. I really like my job because I love being a leader and being at the front of the line. Another thing we did on Thursday is Book Buddies. What we did in book buddies are well we didn’t do any activities all we did was read a book to our little buddies. We only had ten minutes to read to our little buddies because we had to practice our songs for the music festival.

Silver at the Music Festival!

One thing we did on Friday is Gym. This time we did gym outside because there were instruments in the gym. So what we did was baseball. What we had to do was throw a tennis ball. The first time I through it got caught but everyone knew I was going to and it was throw it far and I did. The second time I didn’t get to throw. Another thing we did on Friday is library. This library the people only who needed books went and I didn’t need any books so I didn’t go. This morning it was the Music Festival. We got a silver! I was surprised!

By: Dobie

Talent Showcase!

Today in Choir, the Grade 5s were invited to share a musical talent. Students who take music lessons outside of school were encouraged to do a short performance to share their special skills. Reagan was one of 3 girls willing to showcase her musical talent. Here is a video . . . .

Reagan - Talent Day in Choir from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Children's Orff Day!

Here is Mrs. Knoll, Ms. Allen, Alex,
Michael, Kyla, and Renee at the
Children's Orff Day.

On Friday (March 26^th) we (Kyla, Michael, Alex and Renee) went to the Children’s Orff day activity. We had to be at school by 8:00 AM and we got a ride with Ms. Knoll. When we got there we saw Ms. Allen. We were part of the orange group there was a lot of other grade 5’s there, everyone had a recorder there and almost everybody was playing them! The first activity we did was the Orff session. We got to play a song about happiness because that was the theme and at the end we got to pick something that makes us happy and make a beat with it. It was really fun. My (Michael’s) favourite station was the one we did after that, it was the movement station. My (Kyla’s) favourite station was the one we got to learn a new song on recorder. It was fun for me but I also liked the other orff station were we learned to play a song on instruments. In movement we had a partner and my partner was Alex. We had to walk around and when the music stopped we had to be at the same spot we left.at our “recess” we got a cookie and milk in the morning then in the afternoon we got a cookie and juice, we went outside and it was really warm. The last session and the one we spent most time on was the song “Happiness” from Charlie Brown. It was the song we performed at the concert. At first the orange group did it alone and then everyone else joined in on the second time. We had a great time. And then a wasp chased Michael when we got back to school.

By: Michael and Kyla   

Spring Concert: The Sounds of Jazz!

Today is our spring concert and we are so excited. We have been working so hard for the spring concert. 

We had 4 performances and that’s just today. We had two this morning one in the afternoon and one tonight.

Tonight, the performance is at 6:30. This spring concert is called the Sounds of Jazz and we have two songs to sing “Lets Jam”, it’s a song all about Jamming. The other song is “Step Back Baby”, which is about when 24 robbers come knocking on a door but if you want to learn more about the song then listen carefully and you will know why the robbers should Step Back…

My favourite song is “Step Back Baby”. We have dancers for Step Back Baby and me, Maddy and Amanda are all dancers and a couple other people too and the rest of the people in our class are playing instruments.

There is also another song called “One potato” which is Mrs. Tressor’s classes’ song but some people from our class are dancing with them because they didn’t have enough people to dance.

By Brooklyn, Maddy and Amanda         

Here is our class performing "Step Back Baby" . . .

5W performs "Step Back Baby, Step Back"! from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

And here is the Grade 5 Choir performing the final song of the concert, "Let's Jam" . . .

Grade 5 Choir performing "Let's Jam"! from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Going for Gold at the Winnipeg Music Festival!

Today, the Grade 4 & 5 Choir went to Westminister United Church to participate in the Winnipeg Music Festival. We sang 2 songs: "Over the Sea to Skye" and "The Old Carrion Crow". And we won GOLD! It was very nice to see so many parents come out to watch! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to come and listen to the wonderful songs!

The Old Carrion Crow - Music Festival - March 1, 2013 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Marvelous Music Festival!

Today, we went to Westminster United Church for the Music Festival. The Grade 3 & 4 Choir performed in the morning and they received a bronze! The Grade 3 Choir stayed for the afternoon, and received a silver for their performance! Way to go!