North Pole Musical Auditions

Auditions are underway for the 400th Anniversary in the North Pole and everyone is in a panic.  The cute snowflakes are in a flurry of excitement for their number.  The dancing Reindeer are "hoofin' it" but don't know what to do with clumsy Rudolph.  The elves are tired of always getting the short end of the stick and are singing the blues.  The snowmen are "chillin' but worried about the funky hot lights and the toys are trying to do the entire Nutcracker Suite in 3 minutes!  The show keeps getting bigger but is it really better?  See how Santa finds a way to remind everyone of the true meaning of the season.

KINDERS - Snowflakes; Grade 1/2 Elves; Room 4/5 Reindeer; Room 3/10 Snowmen; Room 11/12 Toys and Nutcracker characters

North Pole Musical Opening (Gr. 3-5) #1

Tryouts (all) #2

Opening: ALL  /  Snowmen @ 0:51 / Reindeer @ 1:08 / Elves speaking @ 1:27 and sing @ 2:05 /
Toys @ 2:31 / Speaking - Crystal enter @ 2:49 / Terrible singing starts @ 3:17 /
Ending:  ALL @ 3:49

Hoofin' It (Reindeer - Room 4/5) #3

No Christmas Blues (Elves - Room 14, 16, 17, 18) #4

Room 16 - verse 1,  Room 17 - verse 2 (@ 0:51), Room 14 - bridge (@ 1:23), Room 18 - verse 3 (@ 1:48), ENDING - all (@ 2:17)

Chillin' (Snowmen - Rm 3/10) #5

Room 3 - 1st verse/chorus (beginning to 1:05).  Room 10 - 2nd verse/chorus (@ 1:05).   ENDING - ALL (starts @ 2:17)

The Nutcracker Remix (Toys & Nutcracker characters - Rm 11/12) #6

Heart of Christmas (3-5 Choir) #7

 

North Pole Musical Reprise (all) #8

REPRISE DANCE (all)

 

 

NEW YEAR - Back to School!

 

Here we are back at it outside for music!

And welcome to our new music student teacher, Miss Heinrichs.  She's excited to be teaching along side me and taking over teaching music classes in November.  We are so lucky to have her at Stevenson.

PLAY! 2021 Finale

 

Back in April, Stevenson had a couple of student volunteers, Ilya (Room 5), Haylee (Room 12), and Ali (Room 11), who came and rehearsed a single part for the Finale performance that is showcasing today!  They did an amazing job and a shout out to them today for their participation in this exciting performance that will be shared across our province.  Their video submissions resulted in this amazing, virtual performance! This final video is a representation of the high quality music programs in elementary schools across Manitoba. The students in this video demonstrate exceptional focus, precision, musicianship, and dedication to doing their very best at "making music together, while we are apart". We had over 40 Manitoba students, representing 18 Manitoba schools (several from our division), making music "the Orff way"!

Play! 2021

 

Play! 2021. From May 31 to June 11 we are celebrating Elementary Music Education in Manitoba through a new, virtual format.   Thank-you to the Manitoba Orff Chapter for all your work in advocating music education in our province.  We can still make music together while we are apart!

And thank-you to our Principal, Ms. Couch and Vice-Principal, Jackie Gagne, our Winnipeg Jets Hockey Academy Coordinator, Janelle Forcand, and our very own students performing in the Friday Finale: Ilya, Hailey and Ali!

From our very own SJASD music teacher, Manitoba Orff president, Mrs. Charisse Wurch!

Thank-you Ms. Gagne and students for sharing the importance of music!

A beautiful picture painted of why music is important for the WSO Assistant Conductor, Naomi Woo

Highlighting Play! events from 2014 and 2015

Cool Sounds

This month for I Love to Read, we've been exploring the various non-pitched percussion instruments we have in our classroom.  We have been deciding and selecting instruments to create soundscapes and that make good sound effects for different parts in our stories.  Our Grade 1/2 classes are learning an arrangement to CLICK, CLACK, MOO Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin.

We first listened to this fantastic performance that was created around the sounds of the typewriter, many of which my students had never seen or heard.

Today as I was looking at different videos for this performance, I came across another fun one using sandpaper blocks.  Not everyday you hear a solo performance and symphony experience centered around that instrument!

Reach for the Stars

In 2013, I wrote this song with Ryan Miller for our school and we have been enjoying singing it for the last several years.  Even though we can't sing it right now in the classroom, we are learning the movements.  The message is still the same as we care for ourselves and each other, coming here to learn new things.