Students at all levels will be completing assessments – both written and performance If a student did not do well on the assessments, the concepts will be retaught and retested Parents, please check with your children of areas they might need help with in home practice and please take the time to help them improve [...]

At both levels schedules for assessments will be given out and expectations Also, a rehearsal schedule will be given out for small ensemble, sectional, and large group work HS – we started assessments last week and will continue this week with the section from Lady Gaga Assigned during class HS – will continue to work [...]

Some Special notes for parents: All students are completing posture assessments – if they still are not meeting the standard with posture – I will re-assess the students in a couple weeks again.  This is an ongoing process and with constant reminders at lessons about posture and what the students should be working on.  Every [...]

Working on Rhythm concepts and how to break down counting with time signatures working on ties and slurs in music assessments will begin the following week on Orchestral Music learned Scale work and assessments coming up Trip payments for the Spring Trip to PAC competition and Hershey Park were due on Feb. 10th – last [...]

Performance assessments on music begin this week – 1st song will be Wicked Retesting on Page 51 of High Tech books Some more rhythm work and how to break down the counts with the time signature  

Students are busy working on Spring music and learning the intonation for the music and rhythm.  In class we are working on rhythms and how to break the parts down.  Also, the students are working on a review of concepts they should know by HS. New concept being learning is vibrato and how to do [...]

Students are doing an outstanding job of learning their spring music.  All of their hard work on Key Signatures in the beginning part of the year, has paid off with helping them with their music.  We are currently working on rhythm in class along with learning music. – Songs working on:  Pirates of the Caribbean, [...]