Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - 4 Year Old Class

We arranged a field trip to meet the Orchestra at the Vancouver symphony and to listen to Carnival of Animals. Prior to the field trip we had talked about instruments. Chuck (Garrett’s dad) who is a professional musician spoke to the class about the various families of instruments as well as playing the guitar.

We had arranged to meet the children with parents at the theatre and when I arrived I was suddenly taken back to my own childhood when walking into the theatre, at that moment I thought how amazing and beautiful this theatre looked. I wondered if the preschoolers would feel like that when they reflected on what they had experienced today.

When the performance began I looked over at Magnus, Charlie and Roan, who were sitting in front of me. At times the boys were watching and enjoying the performance and other times they were looking around at the theatre taking in the view of their surroundings, even enjoying the comfortable chair swinging it up and down whist still hearing the orchestra.

It was a great trip!

Until next time

Jess

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