On Februrary 1st, rooms 17 and 21 crammed into a school bus and we went on our way to the University. The Music Connection program we are involved with planned a field trip for our school and 3 other schools. When we got there we saw a building that looked like "Hogwarts" school. It was actually Wesley Hall of the University of Winnipeg. We entered and had to be really quiet because there were classes going on. We saw some of the students and they were pretty tall.
Then we had to go to our first activity, we got a little lost but made our way. We got to Pow Wow dance with Josh Letander. He looked pretty young and we thought he was tall and talented. He taught us two different ways of Pow Wow dancing, the boys' way and the girls' way. Some of the steps were hard. The boys were taught to "grass dance" and the girls were taught to "jingle dress dance". The music was good, we liked the beat of the drums.
After our Pow Wow activity ended, we headed down to the auditorium for an Art activity. We learned how to clay sculpt. The instructors' name was KC Adams. We had to sculpt with our eyes closed. Some of us found it hard.
After we sculpted we went back to the room we started in for pizza lunch. We had pizza, rice crispies squares and juice. Some of us recognized people from the other schools. One boy in our class knew LOTS of the kids because of his hockey team. Lunch was wild and we got pretty tired.
Our last activity was with Andrew Balfour. He was a composer and he created a song especially for the music connections schools. We are going to have to learn this piece on our flutes that we made. We think it will be hard and fun. Mrs. Nelson can't wait to hear how amazing we'll sound.
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