Last week we viewed the concert “Colours” written by Ms. Karlson, filmed by students in Divisions one, two and three, and acted by our entire school population. The students were delighted to see themselves in the film. It was the first time in two years that we attended an assembly as well, so a very different kind of event than what we are used to!

Divisions 1,5,6,7,9,11,13,15,17 and 19 are in one movie labelled “Movie Two”.

Divisions 2,3,4,6,8,10,11,12,14,16 and 18 are in “Movie One”.

We are excited to share our concert movies with the parent group and community soon. We are just sorting out the best and safest way to stream the movie to families so everyone can enjoy our students’ hard work.

Most of the filming has been done for our Concert Movie!

There are a few groups and one class that still has a to be filmed. Hopefully we will be picking up those shots by the beginning of May.

Then the crew from Divisions 1, 2 and 3 will get to work on post-production of our film. The editing process will take a while, but our goal is to have the film ready by

May 17th!

Thank you to all of the parents/famillies who helped their child get a costume for this show. Thanks to everyone at home who encouraged their child to practice and get ready for their performance. And thank you to Kryshan Randall – our guest director who taught us how to make a movie!

This type of concert is a new venture for our Armstrong community, and I know we have all learned a lot by taking on this new challenge.

I truly hope you will enjoy the show once it is complete.

We will be filming our concert scenes next week and the week after!

Here is a list of the dates and times that your children will be filmed. Please make sure they have their costume at school on that day. And practice at home will really go a long way to make sure filming is expedient and at top quality to create a wonderful Concert Movie!

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We are working on a Spring Concert in the form of a movie!

You must have heard about it as the kids have been learning songs and dances and working hard on this project in music class up until Spring Break.

Rehearsals will continue after Spring Break for two weeks. Then it will be time to film our movie!

Students from Divisions 1, 2 and 3 will be the crew – filming and editing our movie together.

Other students from those divisions and divisions 4 and 5 will be acting the story for our movie.

All of the students of Armstrong are encouraged to be a part of this school wide project, and there are plenty of jobs to take on.

Here is a list of the costumes that families need to put together for their kids.

Remember that they need their costume for the filming weeks of April 11-22nd. Your classroom teacher will let you know on which day your child will need to wear their costume. The theme is “colours” so your child will need to wear as much of one colour as possible, unless they are a rainbow character. The rainbow characters will wear as many colours as possible at one time.

Please email me if you have more questions about this project or your child’s costume.

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Saw this post on Facebook and thought it was perfect! Some of the kids want me to wave a magic wand over them so they can play instruments! Sorry kids – it’s practice! But, luckily we do get to practice in music class and get better at our performing arts skills. Don’t give up! Once we practice enough we can do wonderful things!

We are preparing for a Spring Concert in the form of a video!

Each class is learning a song in music class. The grade 6/7s have the script and behind the camera roles. Together, we are creating a musical movie!

The theme is Colours!

Divisions 4 & 5 – Yellow by Coldplay
Division 6 – Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson
Divisions 7 & 8 – Ebony and Ivory by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney and Black and White by Michael Jackson
Divisions 9 & 10 – I’m Blue by Eiffel 65
Division 11 – True Colours by Cindy Lauper
Divisions 12 & 13 – It’s Not Easy Being Green – by the Muppets
Divisions 14 & 15 – The Rainbow Connection – by the Muppets
Divisions 16 & 17 – Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond
Divisions 18 & 19 – Three Primary Colours by OK Go

Here is the YouTube playlist so kids can practice at home or see the original version of their song. There are also some tutorial videos here of the dances we are learning.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQiC3VdKU_i1qj-D0x135hrGIIqZTqdcN

And here is the link to the OK Go song

And the Finale song that everyone is learning is called “I Can Sing A Rainbow”

Hello Armstrong Community!

We have had a late start here at the school, but just to let you know that music class is still going along.

We have spent the first week of January preparing for a functional closure of the school. I am always posting the music lessons and songs here on my blog, so you can access your child’s music activities here. Please click on the grade appropriate tab at the top of the page for specific lessons.

We are planning for a Spring Concert in the form of a movie. Your child will learn a song with their class and their performance will be filmed. Then the performances will be put together with a story through-line acted out by our senior classes. We are hoping to stream the movie in April to our student body. The movie will also be posted on your class’ Teams’ site moderated by your classroom teacher. It will be on a private Stream channel and accessed only by our school’s Teams.

The theme of our Spring Concert will be “Colours”. Each class will learn a song with colours in the theme. The plot of our movie will educate our community on diversity, seeing differences, and tolerance.

The CBC winners were announced on Tuesday, December 14th.

Even though Armstrong was not in the top 3 in our categories, we did make a good show of it coming in in the top 10 in the Elementary Vocal category. Good job to us! There were over 700 entries into this contest!

Here is the link to the top three in each category.

Congratulations to fellow Burnaby schools, Glenwood and Second Street who came in 2nd in the Primary Instrumental category and the Elementary Vocal category respectively.

Congratulations to our Grade 5/6 group who made the CBC Music Class Challenge Finals in the Elementary Vocal category!

To see the top ten in that category, click here.

The winners will be announced next Tuesday and is determined by a panel of judges.

We are officially entered into the CBC Music Class Challenge!

We have three entries in the Primary Vocal competition.

1. Divisions 17, 18 and 19 singing “Small But Mighty”
2. Divisions 14, 15, and 16 singing “Hey Dum Diddly”
3. Divisions 10, 11, 12 and 13 singing “Ode’min Giizis” (Strawberry Moon)

Check those out here on the Primary Vocal Playlist along with the other entries from across Canada.

And we have one entry in the Elementary Vocal competition with our Grade 5 and 6 students from Divisions 4, 5 and 6 performing “Sandwiches”. Check that playlist here.

I’ll update this blog as we hear more information about how our videos are doing in this competition.