ANNOUNCEMENTS

=Check here FREQUENTLY for all announcements!=


 * 1/31/11 **- Hello! I hope everyone had a nice break! Just a quick announcement about recorders. I need all ** MS students **to please try to at least bring their ** RECORDER **. If you cannot get the book right now that is fine.


 * 11/15/10 **- I am announcing that I am going to have a ** MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENT DAY on Friday, November 19th AFTER SCHOOL. ** I will stay as long as I need to and I will play ** ALL of the ONLINE LISTENING ** to give students a chance to makeup any assignments they have not turned in to me yet. I will be ** emailing all parents of students who still owe me work **to remind him/her of this make-up day on** WEDNESDAY **.


 * 10/17/10 **- My PC is having problems with BAclassroom so ** all grades will be updated on Monday 10/18/10 in the afternoon. Journals and tests will be returned on Tuesday and Wednesday **. I apologize in advance for any problems this may cause.


 * 10/4/10- ** A NOTE TO PARENTS: ** PARENT CONFERENCES **ARE THIS WEEK, I WILL BE CONTACTING SOME OF YOU ** TODAY and TOMORROW VIA EMAIL ** TO INFORM YOU OF THE TIME I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU ON ** THURSDAY EVENING ** AND GIVE YOU THE CHANCE TO ** RESCHEDULE A TIME WITH ME IF THURSDAY DOES NOT WORK **. I BELIEVE ** NOW IS THE TIME **TO BE ON TOP OF LATE ASSIGNMENTS AND STUDENT CONDUCT BEFORE IT SNEAKS UP ON THE STUDENT BY WAY OF A BAD GRADE ON HIS/HER REPORT CARD. ** IF I DO NOT CONTACT YOU TODAY, YOU ARE STILL MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME ON THURSDAY DURING THE ALLOTTED TIME ACCORDING TO GRADE BUT PLEASE TRY AND UNDERSTAND THAT PARENTS WITH APPOINTMENTS WILL BE FIRST PRIORITY! ** I WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOU!!!


 * 9/21/10 **- here is the website link for the recorder and the website link for the recorder plus book two: http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=5614 and http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=5617


 * Remember, you do not have to order these until before Christmas break as we will be using them after Christmas break **. If you have Book ONE, that is fine! I will be choosing exercises out of the books for everyone so we wont necessarily follow the book page by page. ** But with that being said you do need one of the two books for practicing at home. **


 * 9/16/10 -** To the parents: I know there has been some questions regarding the amount of homework for my music class. ** It will not always be like this! ** The 6 assignments that I have assigned so far are as follows: The signed syllabus by the parents, rhythm sheet 1 and 2 to assess comprehension of basic rhythmic dictation, Online Listening 1 to start learning the parts of the orchestra for next week, the solfege introduction sheet and practice sheet 1 to learn and begin to master the handsigns of the kodaly system that we will be using to learn to sing music throughout the year. My goal for this year is to teach the students to fulfill most of the national requirements of music education and have an interest doing so.

I needed to assign this homework in order to ** assess the comprehension of the foundational skills of reading music **. Now that the assessment and learning of the core skills for reading music are complete, the homework load will be ** GREATLY decreased as we will be doing more participation required activities **. We will be using the core skills to sightread, learning to sing music and learning about a variety of different cultures and historical composers. ** After the week of 20-26th **, ** the only homework for my class will be the ONLINE LISTENING **! I will provide ** opportunities ** to complete the online listening as a group after school or even on a one on one basis. ** If internet access is limited, please DO NOT hesitate to contact me so we can come up with another time to complete the online listening. **

Thank you to all of the parents for your concerns and never hesitate to express them!


 * 9/16/10 **- A note about the online listening and homework to the parents and students: If you are having trouble listening to the online listening, it may be that ** Quicktime is not downloaded ** onto your PC. this is the link to download it: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Parents, If this does not fix the problem, ** PLEASE EMAIL ME OR LEAVE A VOICEMAIL ** so I can work with your child on extending the due date and coming up with a solution. The online listening is very important to the class. Also, the ** library on BA campus ** is a good alternative for completing the assignments.


 * One more note to the students- I have extended the due dates for all assignments (6) until the END OF NEXT WEEK. PLEASE CHECK the due date page. There was an abundance of late or missing assignments. Late papers will not be accepted in the future and will affect your grade if you do not complete them on time. **


 * 9/13/10- ** I just wanted to make a quick announcement about the ** online listening **. I have decided to postpone the online blog but will still be putting ** WEEKLY ** online listening for the students to ** put in their journal **. The students can still go online and answer the listening questions while i have his/her journal for grading, but he/she would have answer it on another sheet of paper and ** STAPLE IT INTO HIS/HER JOURNAL BEFORE ** the appropriate due date. I will try my best to have the journals back to the students the very next class after I take them up for grading. I will ** not accept individual sheets ** of paper for the listening, the answers must be in his/her journal somehow. ** Also, It is very important to check this wiki page frequently for information! **


 * 9/2/10 **- A note about ** BACLASSROOM ** for ** parents of 5th, 6th and 7th graders **: Parents, if you look on your child's list of assignments and the due date is the same day as I assigned the homework, ** DO NOT PANIC **! It is the only way I know of at this moment to show all assignments to the parents before they are due. **All of my students are expected to come to class, pay attention and know when assignments are due**. **ALSO**, I will put ** all due dates ** on this ** WIKISPACE ** as I assign them! BAclassroom will be a tool for parents to check to see what assignments have been assigned ** in general over the trimester ** and the grades that were earned for them. The WIKISPACE is for announcements, access to the syllabi, the weekly blog/listening and ** due dates ** of assignments by class. Please ** DO NOT HESITATE ** to contact me if you have any questions about the grading system!


 * 9/1/10 **- It has been brought to my attention by a parent that the 5th, 6th, and 7th grade syllabus states Book ** ONE ** for the recorders but some have purchased Book ** TWO ** through the bookstore. This is ** OK **! I just need each student to have ** one or the other **. We will be using them this unit a very small amount due to introducing solfege and independent sight reading, but we ** WILL ** be using them more after Christmas break. So please have them purchased by then. If your child has his/her book, tell them to ** bring it in ** so we can write his/her name in it and store it in the classroom for easy access.


 * 9/1/10 **- ** OPEN HOUSE ** is tomorrow ** (9/2) ** evening at ** 5 pm **. I encourage all parents to come and meet his/her child's teachers and have any questions you may have answered!


 * 8/30/10 **- Tardiness is ** unacceptable **. In the event that you are tardy, ** DO NOT ** come directly into my classroom. You must first ** go to the main office ** and get a pass. This is standard procedure at BA.


 * 8/30/10 **- Here is the link to ** BAclassroom **: ** ALL ** grades will be posted in BAClassroom.

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