Hello! I hope you are all off to a great start for this school year. I sure do miss you all and hope to be returning to Howe soon. Have a great day and a fabulous year of learning!

I just received an email from the mother of a young scout.

She discovered a blog post of mine from 2019. How sweet to know that something I wrote a few years back has been useful to a student today. You can read about it here:

Blog post from 2019

If you were not able to attend our Spring Concert you can watch the replay here. I am so proud of our students. They all performed very well. 😀

Enjoy!

My twin showed up for our concert last Thursday. 😀

We had some fun with shoes today. Enjoy!

Thank you to all the students who performed so wonderfully for our concert this afternoon and to all the parents who were able to take time out of their day to attend the performance. The students did a fantastic job. Thank you to our wonderful Howe and STEM Staff for all you have done for me this year. Everyone has been so flexible, helpful and encouraging. I appreciate each and every one of you!

I would like to give a huge

to Erik Tschiggfrey for recording our concert. He made a great effort to be at our school in time to record and he already had a packed day. Erik, thank you for being there for us. We will look forward to the YouTube Video link.

We are working hard on preparations for the Spring Concert. I have this fun Bunny song running through my head lately. Students in grades K-2 are performing a Pet Show themed concert and students in grades 3-5 are performing “Music is Amazing” which will include playing recorders, singing, and dancing.

We hope you will be able to join us for the concert, Thursday, May 18, 1:30 p.m., in the Howe Gym.

Thank you to our wonderful Art Teacher, Mrs. Hmayed, for all of the beautiful decorations. I am also grateful to Cheryl and Katie for helping out with some of the specialty art projects. Thank you to Johnny and Mr. Tapp for their flexibility with the use of the gym. Thanks to our building engineers and custodial staff for assisting with set up and clean up. And thank you to all of our staff at Howe for all of the encouragement, flexibility and support throughtout this year. We have a wonderful team at Howe.

Congratulations to Sam for all of his hard work. He has earned a Recorder Black Belt.

In my home every day is “Valentines Day”. Every day is a new opportunity to say “please” and “thank you” and show our love for each other. As a professional every day this year has been a new opportunity for me to say thank you and demonstrate my love and concern for all of my students. This week has been Teacher Appreciaation Week. I have been so blessed by the thoughtfulness of my administration and the continued encouragement and support throughout the year This week I have received so many special gifts, homemade cards, words of kindness, and hugs. Of the 33 years that I have been teaching music in a classroom this is probably the happiest year I have had. Each year just gets better.

I am thankful for each person in my life. May God continue to bless us all.

We have our first young musician to have earned the Recorder Karate Black Belt!

Congratulations to Layla for earning all 9 recorder belts. We are so proud of you.