COMMUNICATION
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REQUIRED MATERIALS
REQUIRED BAND UNIFORM
GRADING POLICY
PRACTICING HABITS Instruments should go home daily!
CALENDAR
WISH LIST
FUNDRAISING
HOME FOOTBALL GAMES
BEGINNER CONCERT
8TH GRADE NIGHT
FALL CONCERT
LMEA STATE CONFERENCE (Warm-up Demonstration Clinic for Band Directors throughout the state!)
WINTER CONCERT
HONOR BAND
CHRISTMAS PARADE
NEXT MEETINGS
The 7th & 8th Graders perform at the home football games. 8th graders must attend all 3 home games. The 7th graders are only required to attend the October game. (Exception: the drumline members attend all games) The 7th graders are allowed to play at the September games but ONLY if they attend after school rehearsals. These rehearsals are open to 8th graders as well. In fact, they are strongly encouraged to attend in order to help the 7th graders learn the football music. Read on for details…
Thursdays, Sept 20 (8th & drumline mandatory, 7th optional) Thursday, Sept 27 (8th & drumline mandatory, 7th optional) Thursday, Oct 18 (ALL 8th & 7th mandatory, 8th Grade Recognition) *All mandatory performances are for a grade. Cheer, dance, and football members are excused as long as they are reporting for their duties to those teams. REPORT TIME No later than 4:30 pm in Band Uniform (maroon band polo, black pants, tall black socks, black belt, black shoes) at CMS PICK-UP TIME Games are typically finished around 6:30. We send a remind message in the last quarter to let you know when to pick-up. But…. STAY and watch the kids play! We play a lot of music and have a great time! TRANSPORTATION Students are required to go home and come back for the 4:30 pm report time. Many students will arrange to go home with a friend that has a parent available to drive them back for 4:30 pm. As always, CONTACT ME If you are having trouble getting transportation sorted out and I will help you find a solution! DONATIONS OF SNACKS & WATER We appreciate any donations of individually portioned chips, cookies, etc. to have as a snack for the students during half time. We are also in need of bottled water donations. Mrs. Lafleur has volunteered to contact Ralph's to ask for donations of bottled water. VOLUNTEERS NEED Volunteers to hand out water, monitor students during break, etc. AFTERSCHOOL REHEARSALS The 7th graders are allowed to play at the September games but ONLY if they attend after school rehearsals. These rehearsals are open to 8th graders as well. In fact, 8th grade are strongly encouraged to attend in order to help the 7th graders learn the football music. Wednesdays, Sept 5 – after school until 4:00 Wednesday, Sept 12 – after school until 4:00 Wednesday, Sept 19 – after school until 4:00 Please let me know if you have any questions! It was a pleasure getting to see so many of you tonight at Open House! I would like to invite all of you to the first Band Parent Booster Club Meeting of the year next Tuesday, August 28 at 6:30 pm in the band room. I know unfortunately that there are several meetings/Open Houses going on in the community that night but hopefully we can still get a good turn out of parent support at this very important meeting.
Our agenda will include:
ATTN: 6th Grade CLARINET Parents
I will be hosting (optional, but highly recommend) after school clarinet help sessions for our 6th Graders. I am going to strongly encourage that all 6th graders attend this. This will be our opportunity to work with the clarinets by themselves to help them get off to a solid start. I have one on the calendar right now and will let you know when I schedule more: Thursday, August 23, after school until 4:00 Pick-up in the back by the band room. If getting a ride is an issue, let me know and we will try to get something worked out for them! ATTN: 6th Grade TROMBONE Parents
I will be hosting two (optional, but highly recommend) after school trombone help sessions for our 6th Graders. I am going to strongly encourage that all 6th graders attend this. This will be our opportunity to work with the trombones by themselves to help them get off to a solid start. We just finished a trumpet one today and we had a great time!!! The dates are:
If getting a ride is an issue, let me know and we will try to get something worked out for them! Other upcoming important dates:
ATTN: 6th Grade Trumpet Parents
I will be hosting two (optional, but highly recommend) after school trumpet help sessions for our 6th Graders. I am going to strongly encourage that all 6th graders attend this. This will be our opportunity to work with the trumpets by themselves to help them get off to a solid start. The dates are:
If getting a ride is an issue, let me know and we will try to get something worked out for them! Other upcoming important dates:
ATTN Drumline!!!!!
(For those students NOT participating in football) We had a great show of effort today at the drumline auditions. We are happy to have our drumline set for the 3 football games and pep rallies this fall. We will continue to hold practice and get together every Monday to get all of the drumline cadences together. Those dates are:
Please let me know if you are having trouble arranging rides and we will do our best to help you out! Today was a great first day back, it was very obvious that this is going to be a GREAT YEAR! 8th Graders are already diving right into the Football Music and 7th Grade will start reviewing 6th grade skills and begin on Football Music next class! Please encourage the 7th graders to play some of their favorites out of their old band book in the next few days so they are brushing up their skills and getting primed for new music!
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY, here are a few housekeeping items to ensure a successful start of the year:
Upcoming Important Dates (Aug/Sept)
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