1.
The Owl
Sung by Grade 5/6 Choir
Soloists: Jordyn Paul, Brayden Bastarache, Natalie Williams
Refrain:
Up high in the big oak tree lives an old owl.
When he has difficulties, he whistles like crazy.
When he is angry, he rolls on the ground.
And when he is happy, he falls asleep singing.
Sometimes he travels; he soars above the villages,
The vines, the swamp, from the creek up to the beach.
Oops! He flies away and doesn’t need a compass
To find the school where the kids make a fuss of him.
If you want him to come back, place close to the oak tree
Two or three suitcases of refrains and old melodies.
2.
Clochepan
Sung by Grade 5/6 Choir
Refrain:
Hopping, skipping, the millipede goes dreaming
Hopping, skipping into the hoppity, skippity forest
When he hops, when he skips,
When he meets a spider whose life hangs by a thread,
The millipede parades along.
Skippity, hoppity he thinks he’s living in a dream.
When he returns to the church tower
He feels like an astonished weather vane.
Skippity, hoppity he dances after lunch
because he’s not himself the millipede tapdances.
Skippity, hoppity he walks like a robot
and when winter arrives the millipede lands on his feet.
3.
Forest by Day, Forest by Night
Sung by Mme Celine & Mme Boyd’s Grade 2’s
The forest sings in the rain, and sings when the sun shines.
The flowers resonate with this gentle tune on the carpet of moss.
Orange flashes of lightning between the leaves,
here’s the little squirrel.
The birds give a concert on the green treetops.
Refrain:
Forest by day, forest by night the shadows slide by silently
The boars roll gleefully in the mud, the badger hunts in the dark
to avoid the red fox.
The flowers doze at the base of the trees, dreaming of enormous mushrooms.
The stars dance on the treetops.
Refrain:
4.
Forest by night, forest by day … under the velvety moon.
The Rainbow
Sung by Mme Foster’s Grade 4’s and Grades 5/6 Choir
Refrain:
The seven colours of the rainbow dance across the sky.
Purple, indigo, blue, green, orange, yellow, red!
I see one, I see two up high in the sky!
The moving clouds are like birds and at the ends of their wings they
hide the rainbow.
The rain plays with the sun and creates a rainbow!
The flowers wave their petals and the frogs have a party.
The raindrops revitalize life, bouncing from leaf to leaf.
The earthworm is peaking out and the snail blinks his eye.
Sometimes the sky weeps too much and the wheat fields are flooded,
all the paths and hedges, the roads and even the villages.
But two rays of sunshine finally break through the dreariness
and then, on the horizon a rainbow transforms
the sky into stained glass.
5.
The Animal Hospital
Sung by Mme Grant’s K/1’s, Mme Beedie’s 1’s, Mme Joy’s 1’s, and
Grades 5/6 Choir
Soloists: Jocelyn Apperloo, Amy Barrera, Devinn Moore
Refrain:
It’s totally normal for these animals
to come and go to the hospital.
The badger has a sore back. The pretty doe whimpers.
The buck doesn’t feel well. The old bear coughs and coughs.
The squirrel has a sore eye and the weasel has a headache.
The fox is depressed. The fat fly wipes his nose.
The cat has a sore paw. The frog scratches an itch.
The boar is wounded and the hare has a fever.
Last refrain:
These animals are hilarious, they’re finally all well and it’s about time!
6.
The Flowers’ Nursery Rhyme
Sung by Mme B. and Mme Julie’s K’s, and Grades 5/6 Choir
Soloists: Sonia Crane, Savannah Gray
The nasturtium struts, the bindweed is careful.
The buttercup reigns and the bluebell is the coquette.
Refrain:
Nasturtium, nasturtium sing-songy nursery rhyme!
It’s the flower dance, they dance in unison in the woods,
in the fields, to the song of summer.
The dandelion makes too much noise, the rose sees a rosy world.
The pansy only thinks of the mimosa.
The daisy is at the party, the marigold is truly merry.
The primrose is pouting and the lily-of-the-valley does what it wants.
7.
The Beaver Samba
Sung by Mme Zoe’s Grade 2/3’s
Refrain:
It’s the beaver samba, tzing, tzing, tzing, tzing, tzing!
It’s the beaver samba. Oh! They are really strong!
With their front teeth they gnaw, they gnaw…
With their front teeth they gnaw all the time!
They build a dam all from wood, yes all from wood…
They build a dam, I’ve never seen such a thing!
And if the fox sneaks up be careful, oh be careful…
If the fox sneaks up they flee into their house.
8.
Song # 8 Portrait (of the Forest Spirit)
Sung by Mme Marie-Claude’s Grade 3’s
Soloists: Lucia Enrich Davis, Trinity Ingvardsen, Kaurbyn Pahl,
Ashley Rhomberg,
Refrain:
If you could meet her, you would only have one idea
To create a big masterpiece:
Because she looks like,
Yes, she looks like Arcimboldo (famous magician)
Her body is the trunk of a brown tree
Dressed in leaves and flowers.
Her arms are silly snakes.
Her hands are octopi.
Her two legs are pebbles and instruments of music,
That give a fantastic concert, lit up by fireflies.
Her head, round and colourful, is made of delicious fruit.
Her hair could fly away, like marvelous birds.
Her eyes are two ripe blackberries.
She watches you, smiling.
Her cherry mouth murmurs
A misty, breezy secret.
9.
The Magic Paintbrush
Sung by Everyone!
If the flowers are fidgety you must not worry.
And the colours are wiggly, you just need to repeat:
Refrain:
With a magic paintbrush
We could make anything!
It’s the AcroRock of the
inhabitants of the great woods.
Yes, thanks to the magic paintbrush
We dance all the time.
It’s the AcroRock
It’s the Forest Rock!
If the delighted animals
Have the rhythm under their skin
All day and all night,
It’s really nothing new!
If the passersby wave
If the people smile
They are not ridiculousYou can applaud for them!