GMS Mighty Red Devil Choir Notes

Choir Announcements, September 28, 2007

SunTrust Info—If you have not received all of your SunTrust account information from Mr. Bonds, please send me an email. The turn-around time for you receiving the account packet with started checks is only a couple of days. So if you turned in a form weeks ago and haven’t heard anything, SOMETHING’S WRONG.

After you receive and activate your check card, you’ll need to use it! That shouldn’t be a problem for most of us. After you use it, you’ll need to go to the following website to designate which non-profit organization you’d like to receive the $100 donation. Obviously you’ll want to choose Germantown Middle School.

Go here to donate the money:
http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=suntrust&npoId=100785247

The following website can be used to check to see if you’re donation has actually gone through. If there is a problem, you can email Mr. Bonds or myself.

Go here to check the donation:
https://promotion.suntrust.com/mycause/

After that, you do not need to do anything else. You should be receiving an acknowledgement letter from SunTrust within the next few weeks. SunTrust will then write us a check in December once the fundraiser is over.

All West Practice Schedule—We’ve added a few dates to our practice schedule. They are not mandatory, but if your child is auditioning for All-West Honor Choir please encourage them to join us. The schedule is as follows:

Mondays at 7:15 am SOPRANOS only

Tuesdays at 7:15 am ALTOS only

Thursdays at 7:15 am BOYS only

Again, the above times are just for those students auditioning for the honor choir. Here is a list of students who are registered for the Honor Choir Auditions. Remember, that this audition is very competitive. I have seen a lot of students and they are making some great progress. JUST KEEP ENCOURAGING THEM. Maybe you could ask them to sing one of the songs for you. You might be impressed with how well they are speaking in Latin!!

Students are still available to sign up for individual practice times as they prepare for the audition. Please make sure that if you student stays after school to practice that they have a ride no later than 4:30. On Tuesdays and Thursdays students will need to be picked up by 3:45 so that I may go assist Mr. Lane with Marching Band practice.

Morning Choir Practice—We are still rehearsing every Wednesday morning at 7:29am. WOW! The full choir sounds so great. I really hope you’re making plans to attend the Oct. 23rd concert just to hear how wonderful they sound! DON”T FORGET! 7:29AM EVERY WEDNESDAY!!!

Water Donations—We’ve gotten lots of water from parents, but we can always use more. Feel free to send your child with a bottle of water or even a whole case of water. I know the students have really appreciated it this week because we’ve been doing a lot of singing!

Oct. 23rd concert—GMS PTA Meeting. Students need to be there no later than 5:45PM. They may stay at the school until the concert is over if they’d like. Mr. Lane and myself will both be at school ALL DAY! We will be wearing our choir t-shirts. They will be distributed with in the next week or so. I’ll let you know about the pants. It will be within our GMS dress code policy.

Uniforms—Money is due no later than Monday! If you need concessions to be made, please call or email. If students do not have the choir uniform, they will not be performing at our Holiday Concert. Remember that the girl’s fee is $135 and the boy’s fee is $100. Checks can be made to GMS Choir.

PowerGrade is working. I’ll be putting grades in over the weekend. Please contact me if you see any problems with your child’s grade. It may take a few days to show up online because I have hundreds of grades to input. Just be patient a little bit longer! ☺

Have a great weekend!

Jill Ward
Germantown Middle School
7925 CD Smith Rd.
Germantown, TN 38138

**I’ve attached a weekly practice schedule and the all west audition registration below***

Oct 1, 2007 - Oct 5, 2007

Mon, Oct 1
■ 7:15 am - Soprano All West Practice
■ 3 pm - Shelby F. (soprano) 3:00-4:00
Tue, Oct 2
■ 7:15 am - Alto All West Practice
■ 2:45 pm - Daniel R. 2:45-3:10pm
Wed, Oct 3
■ 7:30 am - AM Choir Rehearsal
**No PM practice due to faculty meeting!**
Thu, Oct 4
■ 7:15 am - Boys All West Practice
■ 4 pm - Parent Conferences
Fri, Oct 5
■ 7:15 am - Chigozie (flute)
■ 3 pm - Anna S. (alto) 3:00-4:00pm

All West Registration

Name Part Grade # of practices

1. Shelby Fearnley (S1) 7 1
2. Daniel Reeves (T1) 7 1
3. Kirsten Show 7
4. Becca Schommer (S1) 7 2
5. Nikki Gallikova (S1) 7 2
6. Danielle Cannon (A1) 8 1
7. Chigozie Akah (A2) 8 3
8. Jasmine McAdory (A1) 8 1
9. Kierra Bilbrew (A1) 8 1
10. Czarina Espinosa (S1) 8 1
11. Sidney Nixon (S1) 8 3
12. Kinnawa Kaitibi (T1) 8 4
13. Lori Powell (A1) 8 3
14. Macrella Cole 6
15. Sharon Bulter 6
16. Kelsey Robinson 6
17. Jalisha Toy 6
18. Jahnavi Jhagannath (S1) 6
19. Anna Strong (A1) 6 2
20. Gagandeep Dhaliwal (S1) 6
21. Reggie Jones (T1) 6
22. Charles Dowdy (T1) 6
23. Maria Herrera (A1) 6
24. Madison Martin (A1) 6 3
25. Melynnie Douglas 6
**If your child is on here, please make sure they are committed!**

Please open the file below and check to see when your child has practice.  I’ll try to send these out each week.

Oct. 1 Calendar Click Here!

Jill,

Please send out another email telling the parents that they can check on their status of the donation at these sites.

Go here to donate the money:

http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=suntrust&npoId=100785247

Go here to check the donation:

https://promotion.suntrust.com/mycause/

You will need the last name that was used to open the account and the account number. Your account number is on the starter checks you got with the account. The account number is 13 digits long and you have to put in the whole number starting with the 10000.

I am not able to donate the money for you or check your donation. Only the parents that opened the account can do this.

Thank you,

Tony Bonds

Suntrust

901.367.4181

william.bonds@suntrust.com

Choir rehearsal every Wednesday Morning at 7:29am.  Attendance is taken.  Please send notes with your students if they are unable to attend.  Any student missing more than 3 morning rehearsals could be removed from the concert choir.

All West Honor Choir–Students have received music and practice CDs for the audition.  The audition is very competitive.  Please check with your students to ensure they truly are committed to this audition.  It takes some practice every day.  I have posted a calendar outside of my classroom door for students to sign up with individual/small group practice time with me.  ALL STUDENTS AUDITIONING FOR THE HONOR CHOIR MUST MEET WITH ME AT LEAST TWICE OUTSIDE OF CLASS.  The audition is Oct. 27th and we will need parent help at the audition site.  Please check your calendars.

Addition to the calendar–We have added a concert to the calendar.  It will be Oct. 23 (Monday Night) for the PTA meeting.  Please plan on attending.  It will be a great first concert for us!

Uniforms–The deadline for ordering choir uniforms is Oct. 1st.  All money needs to be collected by then.  That is the last date we can order the uniforms to receive them before our Holiday Concert in December.  The girls fee is $135 and the boys fee is $100.  Both fees include shoes.  I have measured every student enrolled in choir class.  Any band students who are not in the choir class will need to see me.  There are still used uniforms for sale.  Please secure your used uniform as soon as possible.  After Oct. 1 I will not have these uniforms posted any more.

WATER–As Fall begins, our students begin having problems singing.  This is due to the weather change, outside environment, the classroom temperature, etc.  A parent has donated a refrigerator for the choir room.  Please bring a case of bottled water for students to drink during choir.  It definitely helps their singing voice.

PARENT MEETING–Our 2nd choir/band parent meeting will be this Monday, September 24 at 6pm in the Band Room.  Please plan on attending.  You may bring your cases of water to that meeting.  Hope to see you all there.

I still do not have my laptop back from the Board.  I will try to find another way to do the emails.  However, I cannot update PowerSchool.  Please email me if you are concerned about your child’s grade.  I have not been able to update grades for 2 weeks.  I will let you know when something changes.

Have a great weekend.  See you Monday night at 6pm!

Ms. Ward

Just letting you know that my computer has died!  I cannot access some files, papers and grades.  Just be patient with it and we’ll have it up and running quickly.

Thanks!

Jill Ward

2007-2008 Choir Handbook

Updated Calendar

 Click below for more information about the Honor Choir.  This information was passed out on the Wednesday, September 5th morning meeting.

All Southwest Choir Info Sheet