Bringing and Returning School Violins

Dear Families,

       With end of the year trips and other events, our schedule for strings will be slightly different next week.

4th grade will have an abbreviated strings class next Tuesday; please bring instruments.
5th grade will be away, 6th grade will not need instruments next Tuesday.

Because the Friday assembly is at 9am and I intend to tune and set the instruments early Friday morning before school starts, please have students bring their instruments and music books to school on Thursday as they would usually do.  I will secure the instruments and transport them to Friday's assembly.

Some students may have lessons on Thursday or intend to practice Thursday night.  This is wonderful.  The student or parent will then be responsible for transporting the instrument and music to the Whidbey Institute.

For families that have rented violins from WIWS this year, I will retain the violins after Friday's assembly.  Other students would do well to take their violins from Joe's or elsewhere home with them on Friday.

4th graders made a reasonable request to perform some new music and some music they now feel more comfortable with.  Our program will be:  Take a Walk, Take a Rest, March of the Crazy Ants, Hummingbird, and Oats and Beans.  (we have removed Smooth Sailing and Jolly is the Miller Boy from the program).

5th and 6th graders will join 4th grade for Oats and Beans, then play Que Bonita Bandera, Pachabel's Canon, and Hava Nagila.  The canon sounds lovely and is challenging for our students--largely because the sixteenth notes inspire them to speed up more than they need to.  It would do well for 5th and 6th graders to practice the canon (especially with a metronome or a steady beat) as often as possible before next Friday.

Thanks for your support of the strings program,

William Geoffrey Dolde