In a previous post, I had shared a Music of Nature Scavenger Hunt! Did you try it? What did you find? You can write in the comments below, or email me with the email link above, or share in Microsoft Teams... lots of ways to share! Regarding the music of nature... listen to what I heard on a bike ride in Assiniboine Forest! Good thing I have Bird Songs and Frog and Toad Calls on Symbaloo to try and find out what I was listening to!! Years ago, I created this video of one of my favourite sounds in the world: the ice melting on Lake Winnipeg... it sounds like little ice cubes in a glass... but EVERYWHERE... It's such a lovely sound... you would have to turn the sound up, but nothing compares to hearing it live: Regarding the music of nature... listen to what I heard on a bike ride in Assiniboine Forest! Good thing I have Bird Songs and Frog and Toad Calls on Symbaloo to try and find out what I was listening to!! It's these kind of sounds that inspire creating music by so many composers... for example, Vince Ho, who created the Arctic Symphony, or Terje Isungset who is so inspired by water, that he creates instruments out of ice! Of course, we have also been inspired by nature to compose music... in music class! We create music based on the sounds of water, the movement of polar bears, and here is a link to music that students created from a poem about a stream, that they collaborated with composer Harry Stafylakis to have a piece created for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in 2019! What an amazing experience! Check it out HERE. TedEd has created Earth School, with 30 days of challenges. Check it out here: Then you can go to their link by clicking HERE and scroll down on the page until you see their daily challenges, which look like this:
The Earth Day mic drop of the day... The Lorax read by Wes Tank, as a rap. "Wes Tank raps Dr. Seuss' classic children's book "The Lorax" over Dr. Dre's legendary hip hop beats for "Still D.R.E.", "California Love" and "Lil' Ghetto Boy" with much due respect to the flows and styles of Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Daz Dillinger. All words and illustrations belong to Dr. Seuss. All instrumentals belong to Dr. Dre. This cultural mashup was created by TankThink for edutainment purposes." Earth Day is on Wednesday, April 22nd, and many organizations have decided to celebrate all week, so it is Earth Week! On the right of this page, you can see our @ESGEnviroClub Twitter feed where I will be sharing environment ideas all day! I have made a video so we can sing together. Check it out below! You can show me the 'instrument' you found or created in your house out of everyday objects or reusable items in the Flipgrid video response: Grade 1/2 click HERE for the link. Please email Mme Jennifer for the password! Grade 3-5: the Flipgrid link is in Microsoft Teams for our school division. If you aren't sure how to get there, your parents got an email today, with a video that explains everything... can't wait to see your creations! Here is a fun activity to experience the music of nature! Go on a sound walk! What do you hear as you are going on your walk in your neighbourhood with your family? This link (click HERE) is a Sound Scavenger Hunt to enjoy! Look what other schools around the Louis Riel School Division are doing for Earth Day today! Click HERE to find out more! Check out this fantastic Earth Day Choice Board from Alex Mandaliti of the WSD!
Taken directly from the earthday.org email... "Because Earth Day Network has three ways you can participate with 24 hours of action, a global digital surge and a full day of livestreamed content with Earth Day Live. Make sure to visit earthday.org for all of your Earth Day needs! More from the EarthDay.org email:
"With 24 hours of action, we’re featuring a new action every hour on April 22. These are actions that you can take, right now and from your own home to continue our collective fight for the planet. From committing to vote, to contacting your representatives, to making diet changes—tune into earthday.orgevery hour of Earth Day and join millions of others worldwide as we take action for our planet.Make your voice heard in the global digital surge by participating in the social media storm. We’re flooding digital platforms with messages of hope, optimism and action to keep environmental action front and center in our collective global conversation. Join in from wherever you are with the hashtag #EarthDay2020. And we’ll be hearing from partners and thought leaders across the climate movement on the Earth Day Live livestream. Join us for video messages from former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, actor and activist Zac Efron, former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, media personality Van Jones, Grammy Award-winning musician Ricky Kej, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and more. Earthday.org is the hub of Earth Day activities. Make sure to keep visiting the website for our daily challenges as we count down to April 22nd!" Check out activities for Environmental Education at Home by clicking HERE! Explore your own backyard for bird activity! Check out this link HERE for Yard Bird Bingo!
Manitoba Bird Secure has created a great post with a lot of different activities to help out our local birds with reflective windows... you can get creating with window decals, window friendly paint etc... Check it out with this link HERE. Here is an example of window decals you can make, there are instructions on their website how to make them! Earth Day 2020 Campaign in Canada: Keeping our distance at home, but taking action for our planet together! Check out THIS LINK about how Earth Day will be a virtual celebration on April 22nd, and CLICK HERE to find about actions you can do to celebrate #earthdayathome ! Okay I'm just going to copy this info about the contest right off our school division website, but you can also read it by clicking HERE!
"With students at home, Take Pride Winnipeg has started a contest for elementary students to make an animal from recycled materials that go into your Blue Box. Use your imagination to create items such as: - An animal, like a lion, or a fish - An extinct animal, like a dinosaur, or pterodactyl - Or even an imaginary animal, like a unicorn, or a dragon! When you have finished making your animal, take a picture or video and send it to [email protected] along with your name, school, and grade. Please have your parents sign the email so that we have their consent. The contest runs from March 30 to April 30. Winners will be selected in May. There are six categories: · K – grade 3 Winnipeg schools · K – grade 3 Rural Manitoba schools · Grades 4 -6 Winnipeg schools · Grades 4 – 6 Rural Manitoba schools · Grades 7 – 8 Winnipeg schools · Grades 7 – 8 Rural Manitoba schools There will be some great prizes awarded to the winning entries, including such things as free tickets to the Assiniboine Park Zoo, free tickets to a Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball game, lunch at a fun restaurant and even a one night's stay at Canad Inns Polo Park. These prizes will be given when things return to normal. Please use as much as you can from your blue bin, and make sure that your art work is cleaned first. The team from Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba (MMSM), who manage the residential recycling program for Manitoba and the team at the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA) and their Recycle Everywhere program are very excited to see your finished art pieces!" |
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