Meet The Overtones Flute Trio.  All three flutists are Dearborn music teachers as well as friends.  We had the pleasure of performing at The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn Sunday evening.  What a beautiful location for performance.

Mrs. Reed will be available for Parent Teacher Conferences on Wednesday, March 18, and on Thursday, March 26, but with a limited time frame.  She will be at a table in the Counseling and Old Gym Hall from 3:30-5:00 p.m. on both days.  Please stop by to see her if you have questions or concerns about your child’s progress in music class.

Our Salina Intermediate School 4th and 5th grade students have been working very hard with Mrs. Reed and Ms. Schemke on a Storybook Themed Vocal Concert.  We will perform twice during the day on Friday, March 27, in the Salina Intermediate Auditorium:

9:15-10:15 a.m. – in our audience will be Parents and students in grade 6-8

1:15-2:15 p.m. – in our audience will be Parents and students in grades 3-5

Salina Intermediate Honors Choir will also sing a few songs at the start of this concert.  Please plan to attend our concert.  🙂

Dear MS Band and Strings Students,

When you call my google voice number and leave a message for me you must leave your name before you even begin playing.  If you are using my desk telephone I cannot guess who you might be.  Recordings that do not include a name at the beginning are not counted for a grade.  Please be very careful to remember this important detail.

My Google Voice Number: (313) 451-2083 (See below for google voice message)

One more method to share your songs:  VoiceThread!  You can use your iPad, iPhone, laptop to make a video recording of yourself and post it to the band page or orchestra page of this link.  VoiceThreadApp

You can also send recordings via Vocaroo but you have to  be sure to copy the link and send it to my email address: reedc@dearbornschools.org

Strings Students have the wonderful advantage of using Essential Elements Interactive.  They actually get to play along with a recording when making a recording for me.  Band students can use the CD’s that came with the books and play along with that.  How fun!

Here is a quick link to the page with the Target Charts: Target Songs

My Google voice Recorded Message:

“Hello, you must be a responsible student showing great leadership skills since you have reached the Practice Recording Voicemail of Mrs. Reed.

Your weekly assignment is posted on your class Target song Chart which is linked up on my blog page as well as on student connect.  You will have until Friday at Midnight to make only one recording of the assigned song or songs.

Remember that IF this is a newly assigned song it will be your baseline recording and you are permitted to make mistakes.  If, however, this is the second or third assigned recording of a particular song I am expecting to hear remarkable improvement in your performance of that assigned song.

Be responsible and take the time to review the Target Song Chart and Student Connect Assignments so you are aware of your goals for each week.

I do look forward to listening to your recordings and hearing evidence of your improvement.  Thank you for playing and have fun!”

Yes, we are excited!  We will experience our very first Music Festival Concert Performance.  Friday afternoon we will perform as a concert band and as a string orchestra for judges at Edsel Ford High School.  Students were excitedly practicing instruments in the band room after school today.  A few girls snapped a few selfies and even created a collage photo to commemorate the afternoon.  Sweet!

Tokecang:

Concert Warm-up No. 1:

Rock The House:

Play this audio link for “We’re on a Mission” from this page and just listen to it.  After you listen to the recording once or twice you may play the song.

We’re on a Mission

Cousin Louie:

Click this link to see the results from our Adult Music Survey.

Survey Results

Students in grades 6-8

Come to the band room before school or after school to practice your instrument.  For each assignment you successfully submit in a recording through GoogleVoice, SmartMusic or EssentialElementsInteractive you will earn 3 raffle tickets.  GoogleVoice recordings from home also qualify for raffle tickets.  Lets be the Salina Stars we are capable of becoming through hard work and dedication!  Let’s sounds fantastic at the Music Festival March 6th!

I realize that with the whole week off for Winter break you have probably lost rack of A and B Days.  I just want to give you a friendly reminder that Monday is a B Day which means Strings students have music class Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week.  Band students have band Tuesday and Thursday this week.

Also, if you have not returned your permission slip for our field trip to EFHS Friday, March 6, please make a point to get it signed tonight.  You would not want to be left out of such an exciting opportunity as this.   You can hand your form to Mrs. Reed Monday morning before school starts.  Her band room door will be open for you by 7:10 a.m.

Have you played any of your target songs on Smart Music or Google Voice yet?  these are all graded assignments.  Stay after school, come early before school, or play from home and submit your practice recording for your grade.  Check MiStar or out Google Chart to see which songs you have a need to complete.   Here is a quick link to the list of songs and the Target Song Charts:  Target Songs

Students in grades 6-8 band and strings class.  I am dividing you up into groups to work on specific sections of the drama.  I think you will have a great time with this.  🙂  Select a topic from your current core subjects for the basis of your commercial.  Your commercial can be funny or serious but should last only 60 seconds.  Select a song from the book for your team to perform after your commercial.

Commercial 1  5th hour band

Commercial 3 2nd hour band

Commercial 4 2nd hour strings class

Commercial 2 5th hour strings class

Drama 5th hour girls band – please continue refining this drama presentation.  we need to keep the whole thing at 15 minutes maximum.  We need enough time for our full band and strings performances, too….and walking on and off stage in our groups.

Everyone should keep in mind that we will only be using chairs for the Cello section.  Everyone else will need to walk on and perform music from memory or with a music stand that you can carry on with you.  Let’s add movement and drama to our presentation.  This will be fun and very unique!!