Friday 18 October 2013

Our experience with TiBert le voyageur

TiBert le voyageur was our artist for this term and he spoke to us about sounds and vibrations. He is good at singing, playing instruments and making sound effects. He worked with our class for 6 periods.

On the first day, he showed us a number of instruments and explained how they make sounds. We went to five different stations: the spoons, percussion instruments, the microphone and amplifier, harmonicas and traditional instruments. We also got to play with the box drum as well as the two drums with skin on the top. Tibert sang some songs and at the beginning of the period and we learned to keep rhythm.

On the second visit, we made three different instruments: spoons, drum/percussion sticks and a pan flute with straws. To make the spoons we used plastic spoons, a wooden bead and tape. We also used a stir stick to create different sounds with vibrations. You can see the vibrations if you look close at it. He played la guimbarde (mouth harp or rattletrap). It was cool.

On the third visit, we used our instruments, our voices and lots of percussion instruments to make 3 loop pedal jams. TiBert also did some beat boxing. He used his magic box (loop pedal box) to record the sounds and mix them together. Some people used their voices and we even used plastic eggs with beads/rice inside to create a beat. One group added "Danse les amis, Danse - Whoo Whoo!" At the end of the session we all got up to dance!

We had a lot of fun making instruments, making music and creating some beats. We hope that TiBert can come again some day.

Written by the students of room 11

Friday 11 October 2013

Happy Turkey Day!

Here is a poem we presented in groups today in honour of Thanksgiving!

A Thanksgiving Dinner
by: Maude M. Grant

Take a turkey, stuff it fat,
Some of this and some of that.
Get some turnips, peel them well.
Cook a big squash in its shell.

Now potatoes, big and white,
Mash till they are soft and light.
Cranberries, so tart and sweet,
With the turkey we must eat.

Pickles-yes-and then, oh my!
For a dessert a pumpkin pie,
Golden brown and spicy sweet.
What a fun Thanksgiving treat!


Wednesday 9 October 2013

Gérald Laroche - musician & artist

Gérald Laroche is a Juno award winning musician and visual artist who spent the day in our class and school. He visited École Assiniboine thanks to a grant from Canadian Parents for French. In the morning he spent time with our class teaching some simple shortcuts to sketching and drawing characters. He taught us the basics to drawing a stickman and how to add movement to a drawing. He also explained how to add details such as shoes, hands and faces. He was able to teach us how to add details to the drawing and tell a story. In the afternoon he presented a concert where he played various harmonicas and other percussion instruments along with his storytelling. We even had the chance to stand up and dance!



Friday 4 October 2013

TWAS - October 4

This week our class decided to write a community TWAS entry. Students were given a topic and wrote about what we did as a group.

In English, we did "Words Their Way." We did a blind writing sort with our words. What we did was write the words in our booklet in the correct column after our partner read the word aloud. We also read chapters 3 & 4 of our novel study Little House in the Big Woods. We did a drawing about a part of the book and wrote sentences about the connections we had with the book.
 - Ethan, Olivia Kennedy & Matthew

This week at school, we did a readers' theatre play called "La rentrée". It is about school objects that can talk to each other. We also learned how to identify nouns and articles in sentences. We used our highlighters to mark the words.
 - Shea, Nicholas, Ro & Caitlyn

Our main subject in sciences humaines is how to resolve conflicts and be a good citizen. You cannot solve a conflict without finding a peaceful solution. You can do that by compromising, using your words or moving away from the problem. If the person who is bothering you does not stop, you have the right to go to a teacher or a responsible adult that you trust to help you solve the problem.
It is important to respect private and public property. If something is private property, it means it belongs to someone and you need to get permission from the person who owns it to have anything to do with it. Public property means you have the right to do something with it - although you still have to respect it.
- Hannah E., Parker, Tanner & Julia

This week in music we started choir. We're doing a song called "Take These Wings". It is about a sparrow dying and a baby sparrow starting life. We also started Orff. We are doing a play about birds fighting. In art we are learning about textures and did a texture picture.
- Hannah T., Malikie, Jeremy & Diana

 In math, we learned about how many ones, tens and hundreds are in a number. We had a lot of fun doing math this week. We also did some mental math activities. We did a review of addition strategies. In math we also worked with Mme Kwiatkowski.  We did a dance with the hundred chart showing the multiples of 2, 3, 5, 7 & 10.
- Kamal, Anna, Caleb & Elise

In sciences naturelles, we are learning about sounds - high, low, soft, loud, pleasant and unpleasant. We wrote down sounds we like and ones we don't like. If we didn't have vibrations, there would not be sounds. Sounds go in all directions and if it hits a wall it will bounce off and keep on going.
- Dylan, Anaïs, Bren & Amber

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