Orchestra Trip - Term 2, Week 7

This week the whole of the Junior School were lucky enough to go and see the Symphony Orchestra perform for us at St Margaret's College.  

The kids were so excited to go on the bus - on the way I asked them where they thought we were going and what an orchestra was:

Xaria: "A bus filled with a lifty up bit with heaps of instruments in it"

Madi: "You have a conductor in the orchestra"

Taliah: "A band"

Aiden: " We going to another class they going to teach us.  They play instruments"

Jett: "A party"

Olivia: "People play the violin" 

Chelsea: " I think it has a conductor to make it play music and it has a conductor sticky thing"

Phoenix: "Play instruments"

Kaiya: "Where all people dance and do gymnastics and sing"

Hunter: "We might see the museum"

Shae: "I think its a big palace that has people that sing"

Amber and Irakehu were unsure but very excited to find out....

The Orchestra went through the four different families that makes up the Orchestra - 'Wood Winds', 'Brass', 'Harp and Percussion', and 'String'.  Each with their unique sound. The Brass section even played to us on a garden hose!  We got to vote on what melody, harmony and rhythm we liked and they played these all together as dictated by us.  

Back at school we talked a lot about the different instruments, what we liked about them, how they looked and sounded.  We hope to get to have a go on some of these instruments ourselves later in the term.