Copperfield Music 2022

Hurray, our entry is submitted to the CBC Music Classroom Challenge 2022! Students did a fantastic job of learning this song with a very limited amount of time. I think they did fabulous and sound like a real band! 

I want to say a huge thank you to the Copperfield Parent Council for their support in bringing the Alberta Musical Theatre Company to our school this past Tuesday afternoon. Their performance of "Jack and the Beanstock" was a colourful, musical extravaganza that our students enjoyed very much! Here are some photos from the show. Students were engaged throughout! 

Did you know I'm a Metis citizen? (one more reason why my favourite number is 8!) My Grandma's ancestors moved from the Red River Settlement and her family (Sayers) along with the Bremner's and Taylors settled west of Battleford, calling their town Bresaylor. It's a museum now.  My Grandma was a teacher in a one room school house and met my Grandpa when she needed to hire musicians for the local dance. My Grandpa, Adrien Cote played the fiddle and his brother Fern played guitar.  I remember my Grandpa playing fiddle every Christmas when we'd go back to Saskatchewan and my Grandma's favourite song was the Red River Jig. Although Copperfield students need to start learning their songs for the winter concert very soon, I thought we'd take a few classes and play the spoons, learn a few jig steps and play a little chasez dance. Here are a few videos that support this learning.

Thank you so much to the Grade 5 teachers and students who hosted our assembly today. Students did an excellent job and many families were able to attend! For those of you who couldn't make it, here are the songs that students sang. Perhaps they will give you a private performance to demonstrate their beautiful singing voice. Kindergartners sang "Do You Know Where I Find Peace" Grade 1 & 2 students sang "Light a Candle for Peace" and learned the sign language. Grade 3 & 4 students sang "A Wish for Peace" with Grade 3's singing echo's and harmonies in Verse 2 and many Grade 4 students learned the Ahhh part on recorders! Grade 5 students performed "Highway of Heroes" and they chose from singing, recorders, ukulele's, glockenspiel and xylophones. A few lucky students got to play bass bars and snare drum as well. The snare drum students might enjoy playing during the instrumental of the song goes like this: ta, ta, ti-ti, ta,