Spaghetti Ticket Money Due 10/31

Spaghetti Supper Ticket money and order forms are due tomorrow, 10/31/2012.  Please email Mrs. Boyd if you cannot meet this deadline but still need tickets.  Thanks!

Quote of the Week 10/29

Dear Great Pumpkin, I am looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night. I hope you will bring me lots of presents. You must get discouraged because more people believe in Santa Claus than in you. Well, let's face it; Santa Claus has had more publicity, but being #2, perhaps you try harder. Everyone tells me you are a fake, but I believe in you. Love, Linus
P.S.: If you really are a fake, don't tell me. I don't wanna know.
(from "It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown")

Congratulations Pratt Scholars

Last night I had the joy of watching two of our Evans Orchestra students receive recognition at the Unit 5 School Board meeting.  The students were 7th grade Kennede and 8th grader Jakiah.  Both were selected from hundreds of applicants to receive a scholarsip for private lessons on their instruments, violin and cello respectively.  I am so proud of these girls!!!

Link to Score for The Planets

♫ Free sheet music : Holst, Gustav - The Planets (Orchestra)

Smart Music Orders

If you are wishing to purchase a Smart Music subscription for your home computer please click HERE to download/print the order form.  Forms and money are due to me (Mrs. Boyd) by Friday, October 26th.  If you want more information on what Smart Music has to offer I would love to discuss it with you and/or you can visit their website: www.smartmusic.com

Field Trip Info

Field Trip information and permission forms will be coming home this week with the students.  Once they do they will require a student and parent signature.  The only cost involved is $6 for lunch, if your family cannot meet that financial need, please email or call Mrs. Boyd.  Other than that we are in need of a few donations to finish out planning please Sign Up to Donate!
Thanks as always for your support!!!!

Hauntcert Ushers

We are still in need of a few 8th graders to serve as ushers for the Hauntcert this Thursday night at NCHS.  Please email Mrs. Boyd ASAP if you are available and willing.

Quote of the Week 10/22

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." ~Plato

Smart Music Subscriptions

At school we have a really cool computer program called Smart Music, it has the students textbooks and concert music pre-loaded and allows them to either practice with the computer and/or take tests for me, which in turn allows me to keep teaching and not completely stop class to quiz each student individually.  Right now the middle school orchestra teachers are working with the Unit 5 IT department to figure out if Smart Music (if purchased) could be loaded onto the school laptops for 6th graders.  Visit www.smartmusic.com to see more information about the program.  If you want to purchase for your son/daughter we will be doing a group order which allows for a one year subscription for only $30.60, that is only $2.55/month:)  Please consider making this investment for your student.  Email me with questions and ask your son/daughter about the info sheet that I have sent home.

Spaghetti Supper Ticket Order Form

Tickets are now on sale for the Unit 5 Music Parents Spaghetti Supper.  This is the Music Parent Organizations ONLY fundraiser of the year and it is extremely important we support this group.  They give money to each of our organizations (band/orchestra/choir) at all the secondary schools in Unit 5 every year.  The money they give us comes from this fundraiser.  7th/8th grade orchestras will be performing, but I encourage any orchestra families to attend.  Here is a link to print the order form:
Spaghetti Supper Tickets
If you have any questions please email me.  There is also a form below for parent workers, we are still in need of parents to work in the kitchen/cafeteria that night as well.

Quote of the Week 10/8

"Courage doesn't always roar sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'." ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Workers Needed

Good Luck!

Wishing the following Eagle Orchestra Members Good Luck as they Audition for IMEA District III Orchestra on Monday at Bloomington High School!!!

• Peyton
• Logan
• Michael
• Annah
• Rose
• Ethan
• Nadia
• Ian
• Brock

EJHS Orchestra is on Edmodo!

Ask your son/daughter about Edmodo and see if they can give you a tour!  It is a cool online learning community that we can use to manage class information, assignments and share resources.  Internet connection is required and it is safe, secure location that only my orchestra students can join.  Students in my classes were given class codes to join our closed group.  If you want to join Edmodo and check your students page/work and sharing you can join by creating a Parent Account.  Again this is a very secure site, you will need your son/daughter to log into their Edmodo account and give you their account specific code.  Hope you find this site as cool as I do!
(Oh, they now have the option of submitting practice cards online too!!!)

IMEA Audition Day Info

There are 9 EJHS Orchestra students auditioning for the District 3, Illinois Music Educator's Association Festival Orchestra.  Those auditions will be held on Monday, October 8th at Bloomington High School.  Please click HERE for specific information for that day!

Quote of the Week 10/1

"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." ~ A. Dumbledore

Introducing....

BETAHOVEN... our new fish name.  It won but a landslide!