Good morning!  Hard to believe we are entering our 8th week of school!  We are very excited about our laptop distribution.  All students hopefully have downloaded Smart Music to their device.  Go to www.smartmusic.com and follow the download instructions.  It should go to your download folder, open it to install, and then go to your applications folder through "finder" and drag it to your dock for easy access to it and then get rid of the Smart Music installer on your desktop.  I can not emphasize enough the importance of using this as a tool for not only your assignments, but to access things from your method books, scales, sight reading exercises, jazz improv, ear training, exploring thousands of pieces of solo literature, and helping you with your All-West TN Audition music (I have loaded this on everyone's page for you to have access to it except for percussion that is not available yet).  

Please bring laptops with you to class every day because we may use them at any given time.  I plan to use them for journals and on Tuesday I plan to have you download some music composition sites as well as bookmark some websites. 

Here is the schedule for this week:

Monday - Our first 6th grade required rehearsal until 4:00.  Hopefully you remember to bring your wire music stand if you have one.  Bring a snack or money for a snack and pick up is in the back parking lot.  Monday is also the deadline for the sheet fundraiser that was extended.

Tuesday - Our last individual help session until 3:30 so that students can practice with each other and use peer tutoring.

Wednesday - Our first Veteran's Day performance group rehearsal until 4:00.  This is open to all 7th and 8th grade band students and I need all 7th and 8th graders to come if they can so that we can prepare and have a good representation of our group.  Please bring wire music stands from home if you have them.

Jazz Band auditions are next Tuesday Oct. 6 and sign ups for times will be this week.  Please consider joining this group and see me if you have yet to get music.  I plan to narrow down parts by the end of the week so that you can zone in on specific parts to practice.

I also plan to post jacket and sweatshirt information this week and orders will be due next Friday Oct. 9 before we go on fall break.

I hope everyone has a great week!

 

Mrs. S.