{"id":107,"date":"2012-11-03T01:21:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T01:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2016-01-08T16:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:26:56","slug":"primary-classes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/?page_id=107","title":{"rendered":"Primary Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Story Workshop and Music<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150212_115558019-e1435006328898.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1304 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150212_115558019-e1435006328898-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150212_115558019\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150212_115558019-e1435006328898-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150212_115558019-e1435006328898-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150212_115558019-e1435006328898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This year(2015) the grade 1 2, and 3\u00a0classes created stories during story workshop, but also added elements of music to their stories. \u00a0Some groups created elaborate songs to accompany their stories and others added instruments and rhythms to enhance the meaning and characterization of their tales.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To see some of our digital stories click on the posts below to take you to divisions 13, 16, &amp; 17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/2015\/06\/22\/story-workshop-and-music-division-13\/\"><br \/>\nDivision 13 Stories<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/2015\/06\/22\/story-workshop-and-music\/\">Division 16 Stories<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/2015\/06\/22\/story-workshop-and-music-division-17\/\">Division 17 Stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nReflections on our story projects:<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1309 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150402_101607942-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150402_101607942\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150402_101607942-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150402_101607942-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150402_101607942.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I liked the instrument part of my story. \u00a0My favorite instrument in the story was the agogo bell. \u00a0It was used for a line, &#8220;In a flash of lightning.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nSamantha, Div 13<\/p>\n<p><em>I liked when our group made a story together. \u00a0I thought it was neat how we had characters from different stories and put them together as one story.<\/em><br \/>\nRebecca,<br \/>\nDiv 13<\/p>\n<p><em>I liked playing the music and making characters. \u00a0One neat thing about our story was that we used string attached to a tree to pull it up for when the creeper blew it up.<\/em><br \/>\nJodan, Div 16<\/p>\n<p><em>I liked making the characters. \u00a0They were Joe, Night Penguin, Henry, and Beautiful. \u00a0I liked the story because it had a song that Dylan wrote. \u00a0I played the piano for my character Beautiful.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1307 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150306_093455513_HDR-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150306_093455513_HDR\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150306_093455513_HDR-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150306_093455513_HDR-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150306_093455513_HDR.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/em><br \/>\nJulia, Div 17<\/p>\n<p><em>I liked creating the setting. \u00a0Ours was a forest and we used paper and clay as the materials.<\/em><br \/>\nLydia, Div 13<\/p>\n<p><em>Making the setting was fun for me because I got to use plasticine for all of it. Our setting took place under the sea.<\/em><br \/>\nYelina, Div 16<\/p>\n<p><em>I enjoyed how I got to work in a group. \u00a0It was difficult to quickly make another setting for our story because our 1st one disappeared.<br \/>\n<\/em>Jason, Div 13<\/p>\n<p><em>I liked story workshop because I liked doing the stories. \u00a0My story was called &#8220;Five friends in the meadow.&#8221; \u00a0Everyone in our group wrote a song called, &#8220;O Ice-cream.&#8221; \u00a0We put ice-cream in our setting and the music helped it.<br \/>\n<\/em>Sophie, Div 17<\/p>\n<p><em>It was fun because one of the characters was from a tv show and the rest we got to make on our own.<\/em><br \/>\nEvan, Div 13<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1310 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150402_103944004_HDR-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150402_103944004_HDR\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150402_103944004_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150402_103944004_HDR-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150402_103944004_HDR.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Making the story was fun. \u00a0We acted it out. \u00a0My character was Pig-Pig. \u00a0Acting was hard because it was a lot of work. \u00a0We wrote a song for our story called &#8220;Go go go go get the bad guys.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nGabriel, Div 17<\/p>\n<p><em>I liked making the people. \u00a0It was fun to model and shape them. \u00a0I made Elsa, Ariel, and Icy. \u00a0the characters helped us tell the story. \u00a0It made it really easy to tell the story.<\/em><br \/>\nNora, Div 16<\/p>\n<h1>Something Big in the Garden &#8211; By Division 17<\/h1>\n<div style=\"width: 320px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-107-1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/something-big-in-the-garden-small.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/something-big-in-the-garden-small.mp4\">http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/something-big-in-the-garden-small.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Ms. Yap&#8217;s class re-wrote the lyrics to Sean Mendez&#8217;s song, &#8220;Something Big.&#8221; \u00a0As part of their garden explorations with the sprouting chefs, tree walks with Mr. Yanko and Ms. Yap, and love of nature this class easily came up with new words to this familiar tune. \u00a0Even the actions were created by the students.<\/p>\n<h1>Primary Days of Music 2015<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1122\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_0809-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0809\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_0809-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_0809-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_0809.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>This year, Divisions 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, &amp; 14 participated in the PDM festival at Kitchener Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>We were the largest group there, but the festival organizer said that despite the size of our choir, we were a very focused choir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1121\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_0808-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0808\" width=\"224\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_0808-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_0808-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_0808.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>The students seemed to enjoy our performance of &#8220;Life of the Party&#8221; by Shawn Mendez, as the actions and lyrics were relevant and engaging. \u00a0The grade 2 students are excited and can&#8217;t wait to attend next years event.<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>Primary Days of Music 2013<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">Posted on\u00a0March 12, 2013\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"View all posts by yankom\" href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/author\/yankom\/\">yankom<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Edit Post\" href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=499&amp;action=edit\">Edit<\/a><a title=\"Comment on Primary Days of Music 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/2013\/03\/12\/primary-days-of-music-2013\/#respond\">0<\/a>r<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year students from divisions 9, 10, 11, 12, &amp; 13 participated in Burnaby\u2019s Primary Days of Music Festival. \u00a0It was a great success and the students were very excited to have participated in this event. \u00a0Below are a few pictures from the festival.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2013\/03\/IMG_1121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1121\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/yankom\/files\/2013\/03\/IMG_1121-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story Workshop and Music This year(2015) the grade 1 2, and 3\u00a0classes created stories during story workshop, but also added elements of music to their stories. \u00a0Some groups created elaborate songs to accompany their stories and others added instruments and rhythms to enhance the meaning and characterization of their tales. &nbsp; 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