Division 16 2015/2016

Today we went to Beecher’s Creek because we wanted to find some things and we found a lot of wood. We walked past the cherry tree, and finally they turned into cherries. We found some flowers and found a wild a rose that was purple-ish pink.  Everyone smelled it. We found a jackpot of natures … Continue reading »

  After our trip to Beecher Creek last Friday.  Students in Division 16 were inspired to do some planting of their own outside their classroom.  Ms. Yap and myself wanted to grow plants that are indigenous or at least similar to plants that grow here in the BC coast.  In addition to the numerous potatoes … Continue reading »

  We worked on songs for the Music Monday.  We practiced the country song about a party at someones house.  We sang, some dancing, and some hand moves for the words like house, party, turn the tv off, boombox, and we’ll wake up all the neighbours.  Slide the furniture is my favourite.  In the dance … Continue reading »

We went to Beecher creek to find different berries and to find our nurse log.  Mrs. Brolin’s grade one class joined us as well.  It was their first time to the creek.  When we arrived Ms. Yap showed us a cherry tree.  It had lots of whitey-pink flowers on it.           … Continue reading »

We practiced our Mr and Mrs musical notes so we can play them for our parents at the student-led conferences.  At the conference we use the baby xylophone and some people used the big xylophone.  Our parents loved our songs. 2g

  The music machine inspired us to explore and make a big machine as a class.  We used instruments like tubes, cymbals, cans, xylophones, guitars and lots of other stuff.  Each of us made our own part for our machine.  We called it our super duper marble machine.  the marble created cymbal sounds, drums, ting … Continue reading »

We watched a video about a marble machine. Here is the video on youtube if you want to see.   It was about a man who made the marble machine.  He made it out of wood and marbles, a ukulele or guitar, and the metal instruments.       We made our own marble machine.  We … Continue reading »

We used our Mr and Mrs music and make it as special music for places (settings).  Some groups did Mars, lava, space, soccer field, and water.  Mine was on Mars.  I used gong as lava and rocks coming down.  I used paint cans to make it sound like space.  I changed my Mr Good so … Continue reading »

We built a house using the box blocks to the song Suzie is a carpenter.  We made a door for the house and had an doorway to get into our house.  We couldn’t build it high because we had to use most of the blocks for the doorway.  So we created a shut door. by 2g

This week in music we made Chinese songs.  We played some drums.  Alyssa and Mackenzie created a song and played with the coconut instrument and the chimes.   Kaito played on the Chinese harp, I call it the heart because it is shinny and it has bird and plant symbols on it.       … Continue reading »