I hope everyone had a great 4 1/2 day weekend! I joked with the bandlings this week that I'm SURE they would be spending all of that free time practicing their instruments! I hope they spent at least SOME of the time doing that, though!
I enjoyed getting to speak with the couple of people who stopped by to see me during conferences last week! Before I left RGS on Thursday night, I put order forms in the RGS bandlings boxes in their classrooms. Be looking for them to come home today, I would assume. I'll hand the order forms out to the SGS students tomorrow. Otherwise, if you want to be totally on top of things, click here for a link to the form. The shirts look great and they are only $5!
On Friday, I met with the new band director at RBCHS, Mr. Stiles and we planned a great after-school program that we'd like to start doing once a month or every other month, called Band Buddies. It will be during the afternoon/evening at one of the two grade schools and it will be a pairing up of High School Band members with the 5th graders. We did it once, just to try it out, last year and both the 5th graders and the high schoolers LOVED it! In fact, a lot of the high schoolers have been asking to start it back up. That was always our intention, but we wanted to get the marching season out of the way. Be looking for a note to come home about that this week.
On Saturday, my husband and I went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. I'm embarrassed to admit how long it had been since we've been there! You would think that both of us being music teachers, we would go see and hear live music much more often. But, with jobs and little kids at home and the expense of tickets, etc. we don't go very often. But when we do, we are always so energized and inspired. I encourage you to seek out concerts to take your children to. I've posted all of the concerts for NSD2 and RBCHS on my website HERE. Definitely check out other local ensembles, like the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Crystal Lake Community Band, Chicago Brass Band, Lake Geneva Symphony and others for holiday concerts. Click HERE for a link to my website with the links to many more ensembles in Chicagoland. My husband I couldn't help but point out to each other that all of those professional orchestra members we were watching were once beginners themselves.
I'm looking forward to a great week! We're really starting to make progress with our concert music! Only 4 weeks until the SGS concert and 5 weeks until the RGS concert! Please remind your bandlings to come to school prepared with their instruments and music on band days! And if you haven't turned in the form for the Band Connection website, please do so this week! I would love to start posting and sharing at the end of the week! If you can't seem to find that form, click HERE for a new copy.
THANKS for all you do!
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