My Hockey All Stars

, Noah, this post is for you.  It has taken me WAY too long to get these hockey pics on the blog.  Several of the students who attend Heritage School have been fortunate enough to have participated in the Winnipeg Jets Hockey Academy this year.  I was able to sneak away from school to watch the progress they had made on the ice a few times.  The students from our class who got to skate every Wednesday at the Ice Complex were Noah, Jonah, Nathan, Myla, Dez and Chloe.  I hope when you kids are all grown up, you remember what a wonderful experience this was and how lucky you were to have been able to take part in such an experience.  I know that I will always remember the day that Ms. Burland and I got our own personal tour of the Jets locker room and I got my picture taken by Bogosian's equipment! He's my favourite!

   

In Harmony With Harmony

As part of The Integrated Arts program, we have welcomed local singer/song writer, Harmony Parent into our classroom.   I met Harmony back in April with a few other teachers from our school.  She impressed us with her musical talent and wanted to give us a real taste of what she could do with our students in the classroom.  By the end of the 2 hour session, Ms. Burland, Mrs. Waters, Mr. B. and myself had collaborated with Harmony to write a song about mummification ( I wonder who chose that topic! LOL!) Harmony decided that the lyrics would fit the tune of Alice Cooper's song "Poison".  It was actually really easy for us to write the lyrics.  Ms. Burland and I were the experts on Ancient Egypt so we were enthusiastically shouting out all the facts and of course, Mr. B is a natural when it comes to writing songs.  Anyway, we had a blast and I had our song "Journey to the Underworld" stuck in my head for weeks!  I used my laptop and the Garage Band app to record Harmony singing the song and playing her guitar so that I could play it for the students when I returned to school.  The students loved it too!  Since then, Harmony created an awesome video to accompany the song and she renamed it "Die Like an Egyptian".  I've included the YouTube link below for you to check it out.

When Harmony got the chance to finally meet MY fabulous group of talented students, they blew her away by singing their very own Egg Drop song.  She was SO impressed and I was SO proud of them! On our first session with Harmony, we decided that we will be writing a song about plants, to fit in with the Grade 3 Science curriculum. After much debate, we finally agreed that the "tune" of the song would be set to Taylor Swift's, "Trouble".  Stay "tuned" for our the release of Room 20's second big hit this year!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEGoJIwsdys