8th grade choir only

Dear Parents and/or Guardians,

         

           I want to fill you in on all the details for this upcoming Monday, October 28. We will be performing at the Forest Hills Jazz Festival at The FH Fine Arts Center on Forest Hills Ave.

          We will be meeting at Crossroads in the cafeteria around  5:15 PM.  We will eat, drink, and be merry!!!  Your child should have given me $3.00 to cover the pizza!  To keep prices down, please send in some kind of dessert or chips for the evening if you can!!  I will get the pizza and water bottles to drink!  Your child can bring that in anytime on or before Monday evening.

          We will then go to the choir room about 6:00 for a quick warm-up and sing through our two choir songs.  At 6:20 we will board the buses out front and be on our way to Forest Hills Fine Arts Center by 6:45 or so.   

         The concert begins at 7PM and we are the 3^rd act I believe.  If you would like to join us, tickets are $5.00 at the door!!! Students are to wear their choir shirt, jeans, and NO flip flops.  They can wear tennis shoes, boots, clogs, etc… just no sandals with open toes.  Jeans should be clean without any rips.  Some students have NOT paid for their choir shirt!! Please get that money in NOW along with their $3 pizza money!!! Checks made out to Northview Vocal Music!

          We will return around 9:30 or 10 PM but I will have them call you as we leave the concert so that you don’t have to wait or so you won’t be late.  It will be a super fun experience as we are only 1 of 2 Middle school choirs!  All the rest of the groups are HS or College level choirs.  The last group to perform will be the award winning, Gold Company from Western Michigan University!!  They are great!!!!

          This is a required performance so please be sure to get your child to Crossroads at least by 6:00 unless they will be joining us for dinner at 5:15.  Again, please be prepared to pick up your child that evening around 9:30 or 10PM in Crossroads parking lot.  If you want to chaperone – please call or email me ASAP!!!   Thanks a bunch! 

Questions or Concerns?  Contact me ASAP!!!

                                                         

All shirts are ordered!!!!

Please get your $10 in ASAP!!!

All choir students are doing great in choir!  Working hard, singing well, and becoming wonderful "Crossroads Way" students!!  Parents ~ please encourage your singer to practice their songs a bit at home and study for upcoming quiz on all pages of their study guide!! 

8th grade:  Jazz Festival coming up on 

Monday, October 28 - we will start with a pizza party (please send in $3 with your kiddo) then we will rehearse a bit and board buses by 6:20!!!  

Attire is:  Choir shirt (which they will get by October 18 if they have paid) and nice jeans - no rips or tears - and any kind of shoe!!!

If interested in chaperoning please contact me asap!!! 

HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL AT THE 

HOMECOMING GAME 

TONIGHT!!!!

  

GO WILDCATS!!!  

**Calendar is updated with all concerts in the PAC!!!**

 

Signed parent letter due THIS Thursday the 19th!!!  

First grade in choir!  

EASY "A"

If you haven't seen it yet, print one up here on my blog  - Course Syllabus

QUIZ #1 - THIS FRIDAY

ParentVue and StudentVue are the access portals for our new Student Information System that has been implemented this fall. They are replacing the previous Edline service. ParentVue and StudentVue give parents/guardians and students the ability to view student schedules, class attendance, class assignments, grades and report cards, varying according to grade level. 

We are currently working on the portal setup as well as determining the rollout process. Our goal is to have the portals available by early October. More information will become available in the near future. We hope you find the new portals a helpful communication tool between school and home!

Until that time, we encourage you to contact your child's teacher if you have questions or concerns regarding your child's progress.

Thanks to all those parents who made it to 

OPEN HOUSE!!!! 

Great seeing you and getting to know 

you all a bit better!!!  

Stop in anytime to take a listen in the class 

that I hope is the "BEST PART OF THEIR DAY"!!!

OPEN HOUSE

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

Hope to see you here in the choir room tonight!!!!

 

September 3, 2013

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

 "There is always something to sing about!!!"

Well, I cannot believe the summer is over.  Seems like just yesterday I was getting this blog all started!! Now here we are!!!  Some changes for the new year in Vocal Music!!!

1.  All choir kids will be joining the band this year at Michigan Adventure at the end of May!!  I have never done this but am excited to offer it to the choir students as well. I guess you could call it a little thank you for all the extra work we do in choir.

2.  I will be changing the final exam for the new year to either performance for the class or a written exam covering everything we do within the school year.  The written exam will be very hard and will cover EVERYTHING that we learned throughout the year with at least 3 essay questions!  I highly recommend all students sing for their final but if they are not prepared then they will be expected to take the written test!!

3.  There will be a small fundraiser in early October as we will need some extra cash.  Things are getting harder and harder within the schools so we need to try to help out where we can.  We haven't done a fundraiser in a few years so it is time! We will have fun with lots of cool prizes! 

So glad to be back and can't wait to get started!!!