ELEMENTARY BAND
What You Need to Know
BAND SCHEDULE
Students meet once a week DURING the school day. Band lessons will start the fourth week of school. Your child will need their instrument and book by that time.
They are pulled from their academic classes on a rotating schedule for a 30 minute lesson with other students that play the same instrument.
Students must be responsible to find out work they miss while out for the lesson and make up that work.
You will receive a calendar about once every 2 months with the band lesson days.
You will receive a weekly email with the lesson schedule for the week.
You may sign up to receive a text message reminder the morning of lessons.
CALENDAR
MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY |
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AUGUST 30 | AUGUST 31 | SEPTEMBER 1 | SEPTEMBER 2 | SEPTEMBER 3 |
| PES BEGINNERS | SES BEGINNERS | KGES BEGINNERS | HOLIDAY |
SEPTEMBER 6 | SEPTEMBER 7 | SEPTEMBER 8 | SEPTEMBER 9 | SEPTEMBER 10 |
HOLIDAY | PES BEGINNERS | SES BEGINNERS | HALF DAY | KGES BEGINNERS |
SEPTEMBER 13 | SEPTEMBER 14 | SEPTEMBER 15 | SEPTEMBER 16 | SEPTEMBER17 |
| PES BEGINNERS | SES BEGINNERS | KGES BEGINNERS | |
SEPTEMBER 20 | SEPTEMBER 21 | SEPTEMBER 22 | SEPTEMBER 23 | SEPTEMBER 24 |
| PES BEGINNERS | SES BEGINNERS | KGES BEGINNERS | |
SEPTEMBER 27 | SEPTEMBER 28 | SEPTEMBER 29 | SEPTEMBER 30 | OCTOBER 1 |
| PES BEGINNERS | SES BEGINNERS | KGES BEGINNERS | |
SEPTEMBER 2022 BAND SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
Rotation Example | Tuesday August 21 | Tuesday August 28 | Wednesday September 5 | Tuesday September 11 | Tuesday September 18 |
5th BEGINNERS | | | BOTH GROUPS | | |
9:00 - 9:30 | | | 2ND YEAR | | |
9:30 - 10:00 | FLUTE | BELLS | TROMBONE | SAXOPHONE | |
10:00 - 10:30 | CLARINET | | BARITONE | TRUMPET | FLUTE |
10:30 - 11:00 | SAXOPHONE | FLUTE | BELLS | TROMBONE | CLARINET |
11:00 - 11:35 5th LUNCH | | | 6TH BEGINNERS | | |
11:50 - 12:30 5th Specials | | | | | |
12:30 - 1:00 | TRUMPET | CLARINET | 6TH BEGINNERS | BARITONE | SAXOPHONE |
1:00 - 1:30 | TROMBONE | SAXOPHONE | FLUTE | BELLS | TRUMPET |
1:30 - 2:00 | BARITONE | TRUMPET | CLARINET | | TROMBONE |
2:00 - 2:30 | BELLS | TROMBONE | SAXOPHONE | FLUTE | BARITONE |
2:30 - 3:00 | | BARITONE | TRUMPET | CLARINET | BELLS |
WEEKLY LESSON SCHEDULE
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9:00 | 2ND YEAR FLUTE/CLARINET/SAX/ BELLS |
9:30 | ALL BEGINNER BELLS |
10:00 | 2ND YEAR TRUMPET/TROMBONE/BARITONE |
10:30 | 5TH BEGINNER SAXOPHONE 1 & 2 |
11:00 | 5TH BEGINNER CLARINET |
11:30 |
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12:30 |
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1:00 | 5TH BEGINNER TRUMPET |
1:30 | 5TH BEGINNER BARITONE/TROMBONE |
2:00 | ALL BEGINNER FLUTE |
2:30 |
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INSTRUMENTS, BOOK & EXTRAS
FLUTE + Traditions of Excellence Book 1 for Flute and a cleaning cloth
CLARINET + Traditions of Excellence Book 1 for B flat Clarinet, cork grease, at least 3 #2 B flat clarinet reeds and a clarinet cleaning cloth
ALTO SAXOPHONE + Traditions of Excellence Book 1 for E flat Alto Sax, cork grease, at least 3 #2 E flat Alto sax reeds and a saxophone cleaning cloth
TRUMPET + Traditions of Excellence Book 1 for B flat Trumpet and Valve Oil
TROMBONE + Traditions of Excellence Book 1 for Trombone and slide grease/oil
BARITONE + Traditions of Excellence Book 1 for Bass Clef Baritone/Euphonium and valve oil (This instrument is not allowed to be transported on the school bus because of size.)
BELL KIT + Traditions of Excellence Book 1 for Percussion. Make sure the kit has bell mallets, Vic Firth SD1 snare sticks and a practice pad.
CONCERTS AND AFTER SCHOOL REHEARSALS
WINTER CONCERT - There will be a Winter Concert at each elementary school in December. The dates have not been set at this time.
SPRING CONCERT - This concert will be with the Middle School. It is typically in May and will be at the Middle School Auditorium.
EXTRA REHEARSALS - There will be two extra after-school rehearsals scheduled during the month before the County Wide Concert. These will be at the Middle School Auditorium.
BAND UNIFORM
BAND T-SHIRT - You will order this with the Band T-shirt order form. Payment can be made with cash or checks. If paying with a check please make it out to your child’s school. Please place the order form with the payment in an envelope or ziplock bag clearly labeled Band/for Mrs. Conner. The Youth sizes tend to run a little short and do shrink so please keep that in mind when deciding on a size. We do tuck the shirts in when we perform.
SOLID BLACK PANTS - You will need to purchase these on your own. They need to be either solid long black slacks or jeans with no embellishments. We do not wear leggings, shorts, athletic pants or skirts.
SOLID BLACK SHOES - You will need to purchase these on your own. They can be dress shoes or athletic shoes as long as they are solid black. No embellishments or different colored soles or laces.
TRYOUT AND RENTAL
Please have your child try every instrument to see which instrument they are best suited to play.
When they have tried every instrument come talk to Mrs. Conner and turn in the instrument tryout form.
Visit the KBI table to get information about Instrument Rentals.