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Monday, October 17, 2016

8TH GRADE ONLY



Dear Parents and/or Guardians,
         
          I want to fill you in on all the details for this upcoming Monday, October 24th choir performance for the 8th grade class only.  We will be performing at the Forest Hills Jazz Festival at The FH Fine Arts Center on Forest Hills Ave.
          We will be having a pizza party and meeting at Crossroads in the cafeteria around 5 PM before the rehearsal and concert.  We will eat, drink, and be merry!!!  Our choir shirts ended up being a little cheaper than I thought so the extra money will help with the pizza and I will pay the difference!  If your child has NOT PAID FOR HIS/HER SHIRT – please send that money in ASAP!
$13 Cash or Checks - made out to Northview Vocal Music!

THIS IS WHAT I NEED FROM PARENTS:
 I NEED CHAPERONES and I will cover your ticket price if you join!  We have 97 students so I need approximately 9 -10 parents to come with us! If you come early to help with the dinner and clean up that would be great too! You can follow us in your car if you don’t want to ride the bus but I do need at least 5 to ride the bus – any takers????
I NEED DESSERTS SENT IN FOR THE PIZZA PARTY – I will get pizza and water bottles, but I cannot cover dessert – can you send some in PLEASE?? Those can be sent in anytime on Monday! Again, we have approximately 97 students but only about 85 will be having dinner! Only … lol
We will go to the choir room about 5:40 for warm-up and sing through our two choir songs.  At 6:15 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 2nd act. If you would like to join us, tickets are $5.00 at the door!!!     
Students are to wear their choir shirt, jeans, NO flip flops or sweat pants. They can wear tennis shoes, boots, clogs, etc… just no sandals with open toes.  Jeans should be clean without any rips. 
          We will return somewhere around 9-9:30pm 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 performing!  All the rest of the groups are HS or College level choirs. 
          This is a required performance so please be sure to get your child to Crossroads at least by 5:45 unless they will be joining us for dinner at 5pm.  Again, please be prepared to pick up your child that evening around 9pm in Crossroads parking lot.  Thanks a bunch! Questions or Concerns? 
Contact me ASAP!!! 
Tami Hjelm J                                      
365-6162 ext. 2233

PS. Students are welcome to stay after school with me instead of going home as long as they have something to work on quietly in my room. I will be staying all day!
8th grade choir 

FHN Jazz Festival 
THIS UPCOMING MONDAY, OCTOBER 24

Be at CR for pizza dinner at 5pm
Rehearsal in choir room from 5:40 - 6:15 
Board buses at 6:20
Be at FH Fine Arts Center by 6:40

Concert starts at 7pm and we are the second group to perform

Parents most welcome -$5 at the door

Unless you can chaperone??

email me at thjelm@nvps.net

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

GET YOUR SHIRT MONEY IN
ASAP
WE WILL BE ORDERING SHIRTS 
AS SOON AS ALL THE MONEY IS TURNED IN!

FEEL FREE TO ADD A LITTLE - ROUND UP - TO EACH CHECK TO HELP THOSE WHO MAY 
NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD A SHIRT!

7TH GRADE - $11 MAYBE ROUND UP TO $15
8TH GRADE - $13 MAYBE ROUND UP TO $15 OR MORE?

CHECKS PAYABLE TO:
NORTHVIEW VOCAL MUSIC

Monday, September 19, 2016

THE ONLY THING BETTER THAN SINGING, 
IS MORE SINGING!
Ella Fitzgerald
                                                                          
                                                         Cooperation
                                                         Harmony
                                                         Opportunity
                                                          Involvement
                                                         Responsiblity

CHOIR RULES!!! XOXOXO Mrs. Hjelm

Friday, September 16, 2016

Well, we are 2 weeks down - woop woop!!!  I am totally enjoying ALL MY CHOIR KIDS! They have done a great job in setting up our social contract in class!  If you are not sure what that is, ask them about it!  They came up with the classroom rules themselves, got them all written down on a large sheet of paper, everyone in the class has signed it, and it will be posted by Monday morning! Some students have absolutely NO PROBLEM following the contract but there are a few (mainly 8th grade unfortunately) that are having some troubles!  We WILL MAKE MISTAKES - but I am hoping with time, things will get better in class as students grow, mature, start learning music, and really begin to care more about each other!  

The Choir COURSE SYLLABUS went home last week Friday and it was due TODAY!!  I meant to send out a reminder yesterday but forgot so....      I will give all students one more day - actually 3 days - to get it turned in for FULL CREDIT if it's in by MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19!  print a new one on the right side of this page

I need choir shirt LOGO'S by Monday or I will design it myself!  Every year we have students draw a logo which will be put on our choir shirt that we wear for the whole school year!  I have talked with the kiddos about it and have only seen 2 LOGOS! Have your ARTSY kids work on one this weekend!  this is what it HAS TO HAVE:

CROSSROADS (7TH OR 8TH) GRADE CHOIR      
2016-2017      
SOME DESIGN with either a wildcat, music notes, microphone, cool saying, paw print, etc....  do not use lined paper     
MUST BE NEAT, DARK PEN OR MARKER, AND WELL WRITTEN!

You can send in shirt money anytime in a sealed envelope but be sure your child's name is on it, their choir number, and the hour they have my class!

Hope this is helpful to you - have a great weekend and KEEP SINGING!  Tami Hjelm

Monday, September 12, 2016

COURSE SYLLABUS 
WENT HOME LAST FRIDAY!!

DID YOU GET IT? 
IF NOT, LOOK AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS BLOG 
(UNDERNEATH MY PICTURE)
AND PRINT IT OUT FOR YOUR KIDDO!

IT IS DUE, SIGNED BY PARENTS AND STUDENTS,
BY THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16


"EVERYONE HAS POWER FOR GREATNESS, 
BECAUSE GREATNESS IS DETERMINED BY SERVICE!"
MLK

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

                                   

WELCOME BACK 
STUDENTS AND PARENTS!!

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