Past Song Samples
Combining the Make a Wonderful Day® theme with virtues, gifts of character, topics the kids are learning about in other subjects or and their own wonderful experiences, children write lyrics and songs that they can relate to and be proud of.
This process always starts with one question to describe something wonderful in their lives…
What is wonderful about Belfast School?
Belfast School wanted a new school song. They wanted a song that was catchy, easy to learn and one that would reflect what Belfast School stands for… Read more
I Believe In Belfast (2:29)
Why is Evergreen School so wonderful?
This was a very exciting experience because Evergreen School is a brand new school… Read more
Evergreen’s for Everyone (2:34)
©2010 Deanna Henderson, Darby McAsey, Sheila Bean, Funmi Ogunsola, Emily Butler, Sukhpal Bhaga, Erik Liu, Denise Santiago, Jordis Jarman, Lynn Brandt
How could you positively affect the world forever?
This theme song, sung by the teachers, was written by Molly Hamilton with the sole purpose to Positively Affect the World Forever! Read more
Make a Wonderful Day (3:31)
©2007 Words and Music by Molly Hamilton (SOCAN) Recorded by teachers at Eugene Coste School
What is wonderful about Canada?
This is one of the catchiest songs we wrote. It was special because the kids focused on all the things that make Canada so unique… Read more
We’re all Canadians, eh? (2:17)
©2010 Kim Campbell’s and Marg McCosh’s Grade 5 Classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
What is wonderful about compassion and peace at Belfast School?
This song was mostly written by the Grade 5’s and 6’s after the initial songwriting workshop. The idea for the song came from a seed planted by one of the teachers who shared his experience with a new student that came to Belfast School.… Read more
Belfast Brings Out the Best in You (2:38)
What makes you feel wonderful?
Mrs. Davies class was our first class and our test class as neither Anthony nor I had every done a Songwriting residency program in the schools before… Read more
Funky Wunky Wunderday (1:47)
©2010 Maria Davies’ Grade 3 Class, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
What was wonderful about watching your three eggs hatch into ducklings?
The Grade 1 classes had a very wonderful thing happen the morning we came to write their song and that was that the three eggs that had been brought from the farm hatched… Read more
Three Little Ducks (They hatched overnight) (2:19)
©2010 Denise Demarco’s and Rachael Tipper’s Grade 1 Classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
Describe something wonderful that makes you laugh?
Many things made the kids laugh. I remember seeing some pretty funny faces and listening to some great jokes that day… Read more
Animals are Wonderful (2:19)
©2010 Tobi Galatiuk’s and Lisa Gross’ Grades 1 and 2 classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
What is wonderful about colour?
The Grade 1’s and 2’s were working on a unit about colour and the teachers wanted to use music to make it easier for the students to learn and remember the primary colors, secondary colours and the colours of the rainbow.… Read more
The Fancy Dancey Colorful Ball (3:26)
How could we help to make the Earth wonderful?
The kids came up with so many ideas including about what we could do to save the planet… Read more
The Low Down Environmental Blues (2:19)
©2010 Cathy Thomsen and Lila Dick’s Grade 4 classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
Describe a wonderful day at school?
One of the most fun days that the kids had was in conjunction with their carnival day when they had the bounce house and ice cream… Read more
A Happy Kiddy Doodley Doo Bouncy Wouncy Castle Ice Cream Day (2:03)
©2010 Suzanne Harris-Smith’s ECS and Brenda Tudjan’s Grade 2 Classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
What would make a wonderful world?
I am very proud of Mrs. Brandt’s class as they have decided to Make a wonderful day for a lot of needy people by having a bake sale to raise money for an organization called “Doctor’s without borders”… Read more
It’s a Cool World (1:45)
©2010 Lynn Brandt’s Grade 3 class, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
What makes you feel wonderful at school?
They started talking about all sorts of fun things they do at school, especially in their activity centers and snack times… Read more
Giggly Wiggly Giggly Piggly Kindergarten Kids (2:09)
©2010 Lise Decottignies’ and Suzanne Harris-Smith’s Kindergarten classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
What makes you feel wonderful at school?
The kindergarten kids were about to start a study unit dealing with self-discovery. The teachers wanted a simple song that would allow students to focus on how special each one of them is.… Read more
I’m Happy Being Me (1:47)
What is wonderful about Alberta?
Of course there were tons of things they thought were wonderful about our beautiful province… Read more
Alberta is Wonderful (2:18)
©2010 Cheryl Poirier’s Grade 3 and Ryann Lajoie’s Grade 4 classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
What is wonderful about Alberta?
The Grade 3’s and 4’s were studying Alberta and decided to focus on the six regions of their beautiful province. Each verse is about a different region and includes the specific name of that region.… Read more
The Six Regions Song (1:59)
What makes a wonderful friend?
As you can well imagine, there were lots of ideas shared on this topic… Read more
Our Friend – Ship Will Never Sink (3:18)
©2010 Tracy Behl Grade 5 and Melanie Hutton Grade 6 classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
Describe a wonderful charity fundraising event?
They talked about all sorts of fundraising events they had done from the Terry Fox Run, Unicef, helping the turtles in Hawaii and others… Read more
Crazy for Helping (3:41)
©2010 Pat. Dennill’s and Shawn Mori’s Grade 6 Classes, Molly Hamilton, Anthony Burbidge
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