Short Week 9/6/11 - and a surprise!

Hope everyone's Labor Day was wonderful! 7th & 8th graders - please turn in practice cards Tuesday and Wednesday this week!

6th grade:
Click on your "Beginning Instrument" link on the right to get a list of posture tips and notes for beginning songs.
Bow exercises on OPEN STRINGS only.
Plucking songs that require fingers.
Assignments given on paper throughout week.

7th grade:
Click on "Metronome" on the right and then on "A440." You will hear an "A" that you can tune to. You can use the metronome to check if you are practicing your pieces with a steady beat.
TUNE!
C, G, and D Scales for warmup - also pgs. 2-6 in Purple book.
Fine tune Wild Western Frontier
Work out the middle and end of Sonata Vivant. 37-end.

8th grade:
Click on "Metronome" on the right and then on "A440." You will hear an "A" that you can tune to. You can use the metronome to check if you are practicing your pieces with a steady beat.
TUNE!
Green book pgs. 2-5 for shifting
Scales and exercises for Toccatina
Toccatina - tuning
Jericho - tuning

And... as many of you know, my husband and I have a small alpaca farm. Yesterday, we had our first birth on the farm - a little boy cria named Dark Star. Cria is the word for "baby alpaca." As promised, here is the picture. He has to wear the little coat to keep warm. Alpaca crias cannot regulate their body temperature for the first few days of life. More pictures next week... Stay tuned (Get it? Tuned?) for more pictures and updates next week!