​Ramsay School 三年级和四年级的学生与他们的实习老师Rebecca Coram和教师Jill MacLeod合作，为即将到来的加拿大150岁生日创作了一首致敬加拿大的歌曲的歌词和音乐。  学生们小组讨论并记录了两个引导问题的想法：“作为加拿大人，我们是谁？”和“加拿大的未来应该是什么样子？”  学生们一起讨论了他们的想法，并民主地创作出了一首他们都同意的标题。  这首歌就成为了“我们团结在一起”  这激发了更多创意，增添了越来越多的歌词建议。  学生们玩弄押韵，使用“最重要的”想法创建了对联。然后开始制作音乐本身。  学生们了解到歌曲有音乐部分，并有许多不同的结构供音乐家选择。Coram小姐弹奏吉他以说明这些选项，学生们就歌曲的结构达成了一致。充满激动的是，这首歌最终完成了。

学生们表演了他们原创的歌曲并录制下来与其他骄傲的加拿大人分享！作为歌词的积极贡献者，8岁的Izzy清晰地表达了她的想法，“我喜欢这首歌的信息。它谈论勇敢和共同决定。  我们就是这样写的；我们一起合作，共享想法，并且同意最好的版本。  这就是作为加拿大人的感觉。” 

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​Ramsay School Grade 3 and 4 students worked with their student teacher Rebecca Coram and teacher, Jill MacLeod to create lyrics and music for a tribute song to Canada in honour of the up-coming 150th birthday.  Students worked in small groups to discuss and document ideas from these two guiding questions: “Who are we as Canadians?” and “What should Canada look like in the future?”  Coming together, students discussed their ideas, and democratically created a title that they all agreed upon.  The song became, “We Stand Together”.  This inspired more ideas to add to the increasingly long list of lyric suggestions.  Students played with rhyme and created couplets using the “most important” ideas. The work then began on the music itself.  Students learned that songs have musical parts and that there are many different structures from which musicians can choose. Miss Coram played her guitar to illustrate the options and students agreed on a structure for their song. With much excitement, the song came together into its final form.

Students performed their original song and recorded it to share with other proud Canadians!  As an avid contributor to the lyrics, eight year old Izzy clearly articulated her thoughts, “I liked the message of the song. It talks about being brave and deciding things together.  That’s how we wrote it; we worked together, shared ideas and agreed on the best version.  That’s being Canadian.” 

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