I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break and are ready to come back to school rested and focused. 

Students please take the time to practice a little bit to get you instrument working properly. 

Here are some practice ideas:

• Play some of your normal warmups
• If you have a smartphone download a metronome and tuner. Their are several free apps. 
• Work on one scale that gives you trouble. 
• Listen to some YouTube recordings of the festival music we passed out in class. 
• Practice some of the festival selections that were handed out in class. 

Parents please take the time to check our calendar on the website and add our after school rehearsals to your calendar.   

Please remember if you missed your last carowinds payment to try and get it in soon. 

Thanks all