Happy Monday everyone!  Students have been working hard and 6th graders have officially learned "Mary Had a Little Lamb" - woohoo!  We are preparing for the Oct. 8 Meet the Band Night.  7th and 8th graders are busy finishing their book one and book two and should move to their new book in a few weeks.  They received their All-West TN band music and some Veteran's Day music and can also be working on that. 

 

Here is the schedule for this week:

Monday - Woodwind sectional help session after school until 4:00 (open to 7th/8th grade flutes, clarinets, saxes, oboes, and bassoons on All-West/honor band music, scales, and sightreading)

 

Tuesday - Individual practice after school until 4:00 (open to all band students - peer tutoring - working individually or as pairs or small sections to help others or be helped)

 

Wednesday - Brass/percussion help session after school until 4:00 (open to 7th/8th grade trumpets, horns, trombones, baritones, tubas, and percussion

 

Thursday - We will have our first band booster meeting of the year at 6:30 pm in the band room.  Come and find out our plans for this year, what you can do to help your child, and band fundraisers and ways to raise money for your ISA.

 

Smart Music code information should be coming this week and first assignments plan to be due on Sept. 20.  This subscription is part of your band fee, so please be getting those fees in and if you cannot pay the $115 until the end of the month, please try to pay part of it to cover this.

 

Band t-shirt designs for voted on last week and are in the process of finalizing the artwork and ordering them.  These are part of the band fee for students and they will be wearing them for their casual uniform.  Parents/siblings can order too and we will get a price to you as soon as possible but will need a quick turnaround.  If we can get them done int time, the 8th graders plan on wearing these to the Sept. 11 Bartlett High School middle school night at the football game. 

 

Here is the information for Sept. 11 night that Mr. Dodd emailed me:

4:45 8th grade students report to cafeteria for pizza and gatorade
5:20 Move to rehearsal site
5:30 Practice music with BHS Band
6:00 Stage 8th grade band students
6:15 8th grade enters stadium to band seating area. MS Directors supervise
6:30 BHS Band enters
6:45 BHS and MS bands play john Kinyon National Anthem
7:00 game starts
HS bands march with extended half time

8th grade band students need to wear their band shirts or there school colors. Band Directors All parents must pay general admission and enter through the admission gates.
Any 8th grade student who shows up after the bands have entered the stadium will have to pay admission to get in.
We will play the National anthem, hey baby, fight song, jock rock 1 & 2 together.
I need some sort of tentative head count for planning pizza.

 

Please sign up for the RemindMe text reminder system.  Information is on my home page for each grade level. 

 

I hope everyone has a great week!  Please email me at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns.

 

Mrs. Sanders