School's Starting! Chamber Orchestra, too!

It was so great to see 6th graders today and I look forward to seeing all of my 7th & 8th graders tomorrow as well!  I wanted to put information up about Chamber Orchestra this year.  Last year was our first year with this before-school group, and it was very successful with many students participating!  This year, the structure and format will be the same.  It is open to 6th, 7th, & 8th grade orchestra students.  We will meet from 8:45-9:20am on Wednesday mornings in the orchestra room.  To register, navigate to the Orchestra Documents section of the website and fill out the form.  I hope to see you all there!

New School Year!

Hi everyone!

It's hard to believe we are gearing up for a new year!  I hope you all had a GREAT summer and got to relax and do some fun things.  The school year officially started today for teachers, and I am already excited about lots of new ideas to put into place!

I look forward to seeing you all in just about one week!

Ms. Yeh

Winter Concert

WONDERFUL job in the concert tonight, orchestra students!  I am so proud of the way you performed and handled yourselves through all aspects of the concert.  We may need to move our next concert to a bigger place - the cafetorium can hardly fit all of us!

For 6th graders...I heard so many comments about how cool the glow-in-the-dark bows were.  You did a great job remembering everything!  And going from rest to ready position never took more than a second - all that practice paid off.  Dragon Slayer was amazing - you worked together well as a team, and everyone did their part to make ti sound good.

For 7th & 8th graders...everyone loved Wipeout!  You have really stepped up to the challenges I've given you - I need to pick out harder music next semester!  Remember when we were rehearsing Sinfonia in D at the beginning of the year, and I put on the recording, and it seemed really fast?  I want you to go listen to it now - it seems too slow to me!  You all rocked that performance tonight!

I am SO PROUD of all of you.  Congratulations on an excellent performance!

STRING CAMP

String camp is coming soon!  On November 13-14, we will head up into the mountains for a fun, refreshing time to hang out and make music together.  A couple of reminders:

PLEASE get the full $85 in by Friday, November 9th.

We are still in need of parent chaperones!  Please let me know if you are available to help out in this way.

Some of our planned activities include:
-Roller skating
-Rehearsing with peers from BHMS
-Movie night
-Special presentation on how instruments are made
-Orchestra Olympics
-Talent show

It will be a great time!

Harry Potter

Harry Potter...that is what the Chamber Orchestra will be working on right now!  It was great to see everyone Wednesday morning, and I hope to have even more students next week!  Please remember to get registrations in, along with any paperwork I haven't yet received.  Thanks!

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA!!!

Hi everyone!

***UPDATE***The registration form is now under the "Orchestra Documents" section!

I am extremely excited to announce that we will be starting the Aspen Creek Chamber Orchestra on Wednesday mornings from 8:45-9:20 in the orchestra room!  We will not start this week (8/29), but the following week (9/5).  This is a great opportunity to enjoy learning even more music, and this group will have special performance opportunities throughout the year.  You do need to commit to coming each week so we can have a consistent group.  I look forward to seeing you all there!

Concert Dates Confirmed!!!

Hi everyone - our concert dates are now CONFIRMED (and listed on the website)!  I will send something out to make sure everyone clearly has the dates on their calendars as soon as I can work a couple of field trips out.  But for now, please put these concerts on your calendar!

We had a great first full week of class.  Keep up the good work!