Christmas Cookie Practice - December 16th

It was a real pleasure working with your child in November and December. We will have a short break and resume choir practices on Tuesday, January 10. A huge thank you to the following choir parents for sending in treats today: Mrs. Flumerfelt, Mrs. Brunnen, Mrs. Piattelli and Mrs Yanew. The students were very excited to receive something so tasty for their hard work.
Warm regards and best wishes for a Happy Holiday with your family!
Mrs. Martin

Remaining 2016 Choir Practices

Dear Parents,

We have 2 remaining choir practices left before the Christmas break. Our next rehearsal is on Thursday, December 8th and then we will finish up with one more on Friday, the 16th. We will resume choir practices again on Tuesday, January 10th.

Thank you for continuing to remind your child to attend as we are having great fun singing, dancing and adding actions to our winter songs. Thanks also to those parents for emailing me when you know your child will miss a choir practice. I can be reached at: maryellen.martin@cssd.ab.ca

I am really enjoying working with your son/daughter. We are making great music together!

Musically Yours,
Mrs. Martin

November 21st - Choir Rehearsal

What a great turnout today! Our songs are really coming along nicely. The best part for me was watching the students dance. In our final song, the front row of Gr. 2 girls danced the Can Can to Holiday Hoedown and they did a great job! Then in the middle of the song there is an actual square dance and groups of boys, and girls came down off the risers to participate. I wish I would have video taped them as they did a fine "hoedown" as I called out the steps. There will be more opportunities to dance in future practices to come. Our next rehearsal will be on November 29th and I can't wait.

Warm regards,
Mrs. Martin

What a Great First Practice!

We held our first choir practice for grades 2 and 3 on Wednesday, November 2nd. We did some stretching, vocal warm-ups, canons and began 2 of our winter pieces: Winter Hoedown and A Hot Cup of Cocoa. A big thank you to Jessica and Sarah in JH for assisting us as well as Mrs. Dorin and Mrs. Bastiaan who are always willing to lend a hand. Thank you also to my parent helpers who wrote words out on chart paper (Esmeralda, Sherri, Patti and Nancy) and gathered email addresses(Mrs. Zaitsev). 

Our next choir rehearsal will be on Thursday, November 10th at 12:30 and every Day 3 after that.
PS If students would like to listen to Hot Cup of Cocoa, I have attached a video link.
https://youtu.be/CQGT5b9b4hE

Musically Yours,
Mrs. Martin
Junior Choir Director
K to Gr. 3 Music Teacher