Thanksgiving is coming!

Thanx to all the parents who came to vsit me during the conference times and find out about their child. Itwas great talking to all of you!

+MUSICAL NEWS

NO PRACTICE THIS THURSDAY MORNING FOR ALL CAST MEMBERS! I need to rehearse with the show choir on Thursday morning so we will not be able to have practice.

DON'T FORGET TO BE AT REHEARSE ON TIME, OR HAVE A WRITTEN NOTE FOR MR. OKRAY AND MR, SCHROEDER IF YOU MISS ANY REHEARSALS.

All students have small group rehearsals on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays with Mr. Schroeder in the LMC. (8th, 7th, and 6th respectivley)

THE MUSICAL IS SET TO BE PERFORMED ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 28TH AND SATURDAY, JANUARY 29TH.

Make sure you are working on your costumes and biographies for your character. The assignments are due the week we come back from Thanksgiving break.

+SHOW CHOIR NEWS

The concert is this Thursday, November 18th. All students should be there at 6:45. Show Choir students should be wearing black bottoms and white tops.

Thank you to all the students involved in the sleep over on Friday and Saturday. IT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!!!!!!!!
Because of your efforts I know our concert will be great. YOU ARE ALL AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No rehearsal on Friday and Monday after the concert. We will begin rehearsals for our next concert on Monday after the Thanksgiving break.

+GUITAR STUDENTS

KEEP PRACTISING AND TAKING YOUR INSTRUMENTS HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have worked on Jambalya and Ring of Fire this week. Keep working on these songs at home when you are practising.

We will begin work on the final project this week. Start thinking about what you want you song to be about and what chords you are going to use in your song. You need to have 3 chord for each stanza of your song.

+6TH AND 7TH GRADE MUSIC APPRECIATION

Keep up the great work in class.

7th grade is working on their shakere projects and are off to a good start.

6th grade is working on their keyboard skills and making great music.

+6TH GRADE GENERAL MUSIC CLASSES

We have just put together our materials for the students interveiws. We will begin interveiwing each other very soon. Listen for the interveiws on the radio, channel 91.3.

Voter Day!

Make sure you remind your parents to vote!

-8th Grade

Keep practising your guitars. We are doing a better job of getting the practice times in, but some of you are really letting things go, and your grade is suffering. We are having a test on Friday and Thursday on chords. Make sure you know them all:

am=a minor
em= e minor
AM/Am= A major
EM/Em= E major
E7= E seventh
A7= A seventh
DM= D major

Know what they look like and how to label them for the test.

-6th grade

Starting a new unit in music technology soon. Yopu may want to have a notebook for class and take notes.

-7th grade

Finishing making shakers for the next week

-5th grade

Continue with recorder. We have learned G-Do, F#-Ti, and we will learn A-Re this week. We will also continue with the boomwacker test and Major Duple/Triple. We will also start on Minor Duple/Triple, This Old Hammer, And playing Pierrot.