The title of the post, unfortunately, refers to how I felt after each of my full-band rehearsals this week. I had to come down on the bands a teensy bit about behavior during full band rehearsals. I don't know if it was Halloween looming in the air? The change in the barometric readings? Actually, it's been adding up for the last couple of weeks and this week, finally came to a head.
I know, I know, there are 44 and 55 students in each of my groups and they ALL have noisemakers, it's not going to be like a library in rehearsal! I don't expect it to be. Every teacher has his or her own comfortable level of "background noise" if you will. With music and, more specifically instrumental music classes, there will be more than "traditional" classrooms. Here are my rules: If I'm NOT on the podium, students may talk, chit chat, but not play their instruments. If I AM on the podium, there should be no talking or playing unless we are discussing something together. Depending on the group, that first rule changes. If I can depend on members of the group to not blast their instruments, make silly noises on purpose, etc, then I will allow a little practicing inbetween songs. My groups this year aren't ready for that, at least not yet. I just wanted to give you a head's up in case you heard any mentionings sort of like, "Man, Mrs. Storer let us have it today," etc...
One exciting happening this week was that we are going to be getting Band t-shirts! One of the band parents this year has a great business and will be printing off t-shirts for us! I think it will be a great way to foster pride within our groups! Look for order forms to be going home, hopefully, next week!
One more very important thing to mention is concerning the PB works website I'm constructing called The Band Connection. Hopefully you all received the note I sent home with the bandlings this week about this. In review, I've make a website that will share pictures, videos and audio recordings with the members of that site. It is a password-protected, invitation-only type of deal. The pictures, etc. will not be on the internet for everyone to see. Only people invited by me (you parents, teachers and administration of NSD2) will be able to access it and everyone will need their own username and password. My hope is to include you as parents into what we do in the classroom and rehearsal room through the pictures and recordings, so you can really be an active participant in your child's progression this year. Here's a link to that note I sent home with a permission slip that should be turned in ASAP. I'd love to get it up and running in the next two weeks! Please send the permssion slip back on Monday, if you haven't already.
Have a great weekend!
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