After choosing various instruments to represent the main characters in the story Mother Frost, students played this.  Through this learning task, students learned to follow the conductor's cues.  Grade 1 students explored the concept of "beat" and came up with examples of mechanical sounds that give us the "beat".  They also played barred instruments for the first time.  Through this learning task, they explored the different timbres of the barred instruments.  Grade 2 students continued telling musical stories.  This time, they chose a First Nations story. 

Grade 3 students continued their study on "musical legos" and extended their knowledge of the solfège system to include la, sol, mi, re and doh.  Grade 4 students created more rhythmic pieces as they made a connection between music and their social studies curriculum, i.e. Alberta.

Grade 5 students said goodbye to the general music program as they will be moving on to the Band program for the second semester.  The students who were attending the Band program will be attending the general music program starting next week.