WGN CLASS NOTES: 2026/01/20

TO: WONDER WGN MEMBERS
MEMO: WGN CLASS NOTES: 2026/01/20
DATE: Tuesday, January 20, 2026

 

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  • Scripture of the Month: Isaiah 55:12 – For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands. – Isaiah 55:12 World English Bible (WEB)
  • Character Scripture:
    • Matthew 2:10 – When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. – Matthew 2:10 New King James Version (NKJV)
    • Psalms 100:2 – Serve the LORD with joy. Come before him with a joyful shout! – Psalms 100:2 International Standard Version (ISV)
    • Nehemiah 8:10 – Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” – English Standard Version (ESV)

MUSIC FOUNDATIONS

  • 2A & 3A: No Class Notes
  • 2B: Some of you will be re-tested on Whole & Half Step definitions, Major Scale Pattern, Order of Sharps and Flats, and/or Identifying a Major Key Signature.
  • 3B: If you didn’t finish your Half & Whole Steps Packet, please do so and bring it back.

PIANO 1

  • Practice Time: 15/5d
  • Practice all four parts of Lost My Partner, pages 52-55
  • You need to be able to play through each part without pausing to figure out what comes next.
  • Also pay attention to when to use your left or your right hand.

PIANO 2

  • Practice Time: 15m/5d
  • Practice pages 33, 34, and 37.
  • Remember that a slur means to play *legato* or connect the notes smoothly

BUCKETLINE

  • Practice Time: 20m/5d
  • The test is next week! Letter C to the end of Buckethead. Please warm-up with moving forward. Play 4 times increasing the tempo on your metronome each time. Lastly go through bucket stomp mark the places where you play on the bucket to the right and to the left.
  • Wonder Drumline Book
    • Practice all exercises (excluding “Rolls & Rhythms”) to the goal of memorization at moderate tempos (80-120bpm) and stick heights (mezzo-forte and forte (plus piano-forte for accent exercises). Keep utilizing the mark time to guide your ability to keep good tempo. Write in the foot work (lefts and rights) above the staff for “Count Up Legatos” and practice these individual measures to see how the feet align with the hands; keep in mind the subdivided ‘upbeat’ motion in the mark time to help with the measures that have a left hand starting on an upbeat.

DRUMLINE

  • Practice Time: 20m/5d
  • Practice all exercises (excluding “Rolls & Rhythms”) to the goal of memorization at moderate tempos (80-120bpm) and stick heights (mezzo-forte and forte (plus piano-forte for accent exercises). Keep utilizing the mark time to guide your ability to keep good tempo. Write in the foot work (lefts and rights) above the staff for “Count Up Legatos” and practice these individual measures to see how the feet align with the hands; keep in mind the subdivided ‘upbeat’ motion in the mark time to help with the measures that have a left hand starting on an upbeat.

FLAGS

  • Practice Time: 20m/5d
  • Great work today, ladies! That was a lot of repetition and you really pulled it together with the details. We’re in a good place to start to work on the details.
  • 🚩Attached is our very rough video of the drill we did before the break.
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/131APTZRxG_yPMfAKO1wx23QwkndKDgFe/view?usp=drive_link
  • ✅ Watch yourself
  • ✅ Watch others, especially Aspen & Cassidy-they have the moves on the correct counts
  • ✅ Practice in small pieces of 4-8 counts and work out the basics, then put each piece together.
  • ✅ When the basics are solid, work on the details: flag position, glide step, posture, hands, etc. Scrutinize yourself to be the best you can be!

PRELUDE BAND (Beginner Students)

  • Practice Time: 20m/5d
  • Ensemble
    • Essential Elements Book 1 aka Yellow Book
      • There will be tests on the following lines in your essential elements book #26 as a solo # 30 as a class learn both lines A and B Switching on the repeat.#31 #42 no slower than 90 bpm on the metronome.
  • Rhythms (clapping https://photos.app.goo.gl/nrxnCqvWbuBghF7x5)
    • Huckleberry Jello
    • Gooseberry, Gooseberry
    • Pineapple, Pineapple
    • Huckleberry, Huckleberry
    • Jello (shh) lo
  •  Baritone
    • Warm up by buzzing in the mouthpiece. After placing the mouthpiece back in the baritone, focus on playing with a beautiful tone. Do lips slurs to see how many different notes you can play with 12. Continue practice session as indicated on handout.
  •  Clarinet
    • Practice Tips
    • ✅ Keeps cheeks flat, no puffs
    • ✅ Tongue shape should remain in the hissing cat 😺 position
    • ✅ As you go through your assignments (26, 30, 31 & 42) check teeth and cheeks to make sure they are in the correct positions.
  •  Flute
    • Posture: Practice in front of mirror and watch for chins up, and left wrists as neutral as you can reasonably get them. Do this standing most days, but if possible this weekend, sit as well and see what happens to your posture.
    • Technique: higher notes = faster air; warm up on notes you know two octaves. Low F, long and slow until it sounds lovely, then high F long and slow until it sounds lovely. Back to low F for a long note (4 beats minimum), high F for a long note (4 beats minimum). Do the same thing on G. Do the same thing on A. Then practice your book music #54 at 60 bpm on your metronome; followed by #56, #57, and #53. Let us aim to play #s 53 and 54 as duets/canon in sectionals next week.
  •  Horn
    • Warm up 3-4 minutes
      • ✅ Warm up with long tones always
      • ✅ Use the notes in the fingering chart that are numbered 1-12.
      • ✅ Play 2nd line G to 3rd line Bb 3-5 times and make sure you are hitting the correct pitches
    • Starfire March
      • ✅ Make sure to begin each note with a strong tongue -not hard, but enough that the start of each note is crisp.
    • Rock Point 5
      • ✅ Watch for slur signs over notes, play the notes slurred!
      • ✅ Work on the jump from Dangling D (below the staff)to 3rd line Bb.
      • ✅ Use the exercises we worked on in sectionals to hit these higher notes.
      • ↪ ♩♩♩♩ (4 quarter notes) followed by a whole note on each note that doesn’t always sound when played. If the note doesn’t sound on the correct pitch when you start adjust your embouchure to get the note, don’t stop & then start over, try and make each start of the note better. You are working towards getting the note to sound as you release the air from your tongue and begin the whole note. This should all be done with the same note. Use this on any note, but only one at a time.
  •  Percussion
    • Practice the new piece Starfire March and review Essential Elements Book I Songs/Exercises 34, 35, 42, 43, 54, 57. 58. Practice individual instrument assignments for “Procession from the Water Music Suite”.
  • Saxophone
    • Warm up your horn and yourself with lots of notes. Scales and songs you’ve already played are good for this.
    • After you & your instrument are warm, please use a tuner to tune your instrument. This helps to set your ears to the correct pitches even when not playing with others. It will also help you to become accustomed to tuning by yourself before rehearsals.
    • You played strongly today! Almost like we didn’t have 3 week break-good work!
    • Rock Point 5
      • ✅ The newest technique here is slurring. Be diligent to play the slurs in the right places with the correct articulation. Take the tempo slower and get used to the feel of tonguing the first note of the slur and letting the rest of the notes (1 in this case) flow out of the sax just by switching fingerings.
    • 🎷 Make sure to practice the rest of the songs assigned by Ms. Carol.
  • Trombone
    • Bring pencil to class!
    • Continue warmup by buzzing in the mouthpiece. After placing the mouthpiece back in the trombone, focus on playing with a beautiful tone. Do lips slurs to see how many different notes you can play in first position.
    • Practice in method book as mentioned in prelude band notes. Do worksheets and flash cards daily for note names and positions (if assigned). Practice 45 and 48 as quickly as you can while keeping good musicality.
    • For 57, especially work measures 9-12
    • Practice Starfire March (will play without helpers next week- especially practice measures 59-60) and Rock Point paying attention to breath marks
  • Trumpet
    • Sitting up – breathing for longer time holding tones
    • Hand position – thumb under lead pipe – finger tips ready to play
    • Work with straw – tighten around it – widen your smile
    • Keep that lip position and set your mouthpiece – ready to play a couple of beats early
    • Work on being faster at seeing notes, fingering,
    • Work on Frere Jacques 54, Old McDonald 56, Ode to Joy 57

TRAINING BAND (2nd Level Students or Above)

  • Practice Time: 30m/5d
  • Ensemble
    • Scales, arp & 3rds, 2 octaves (Use a metronome)
    • Tests on Essential elements book 1 Lines 88, 90, and 91 next week. The songs for performance are Refried Beans and #152 the Yellow Book School Spirit.
    • Review (Use a metronome)
      • Essential Elements Book 2 aka Red Book
      • We have added /ascot overactive to our band practice. This week work on this piece focusing on the dynamics. Work on playing very softly during the parts marked with a P for piano. Your work on refried beans is going very well. Let’s work on our breathing. Be sure to breath only at the breath marks or on the rests.
  • Bass Guitar
    • Scales, arp & 3rds, 2 octaves.
    • Work on warm-up routine, include scale work in the warm up
  • Clarinet
    • Work on Refried Beans & Ascot Overture
    • Ascot Overture practice tips:
    • 🧣Look up all of the fingerings for any notes that you don’t know-these are the notes that are “over the break” meaning from 3rd line Bb to 3rd line B. More on that vocabulary next week.
    • 🧣Look for anything about Bb. Make yourself a fingering chart with each of these new notes-make it fancy like your drawings and you will never forget these fingerings!
    • 🧣The 8th notes are fast-make sure you are tonguing correctly with tu, tu, tu, tu or do, do, do, do. If you are unable to sustain tonguing at that speed throughout the 8 measures, then practice saying those syllables walking around your house or as you do other schoolwork or while you’re doing dishes. The idea is to get your tongue muscle strong & agile.
    • 🧣For Ascot, it is best practiced in sections; divide it up and conquer!
    • Happy Practicing! 🎵❤️🎵❤️🎵❤️🎵
  • Electric Guitar
    • Scales, arp & 3rds, 2 octaves.
    • Work on warm-up routine, include scale work in the warm up
  • Flute
    • Refried beans, ascot overture, practice pages 38 and song swing fever in jazz book and caravan. Make sure to practice breathing and posture and b flat blue scale
  • Percussion
    • Practice variations of rolls: buzz & open-stroke through 5-, and 9-stroke roll types. Apply this to “The Thunderer”. Practice “Hugga-Hugga-Burr” for these roll types, including also single-stroke rolls (32nd-notes with alternating sticking). Practice rhythms for “Hill & Gully Rider”. Practice #1, 5, 7, 8 from Drumline Book.
  • Saxophone
    • There will be a test on # 84 and 86-89 next week in the essential elements book.Practice #184 in the essential elements book from measure 1 to 26. It the 1812 Overature.
  •  Trombone
    • Begin warmup by buzzing in the mouthpiece and then move to lip slurs. Continue your warmup by playing with tonguing then slurring as you move from first to third position on any pitch.
    • Scales: On page 40, work on key of Bflat 1-3. And eflat scale on handout. Page 47 (chromatic scale) low Bflat to high Bflat – again emphasizing speed (without sacrificing pitch)
    • Method book 1: work on speed for 88
    • For ensemble, especially practice Swing Fever and Bossa Madeira (use online recordings).
  •  Trumpet
    • Keep getting better at sight reading – concentration on notes to fingering
    • Work on long clear tones – on higher notes
    • Get timing – watch sharps and naturals on School Spirit 152
    • Play accents well – watch volume variations

MIDPOINT BAND (3rd Level Students or Above)

  • Practice Time: 45m/5d
  • Ensemble:
    • Scales, arp & 3rds, 2-3 octaves (Use a metronome) – pick a scale
    • We will be performing Swing Fever and Bossa Madeira. Here is a link to find the pieces to practice with. You will need to copy and paste. https://kjos.com/standard-of-excellence-jazz-ensemble-method.html
    • Review (Use a metronome)
      • Essential Elements Book 3 aka Green Book
    • Repertoire (Use a metronome)
      • Continue to work on Caravan & Swing Fever for next week.
  • Electric Bass
    • Scales, arp & 3rds, 3 octaves.
    • Practice scales you know and sight-read some personal choice pieces
  • Electric Guitar
    • Scales, arp & 3rds, 3 octaves.
    • Practice scales you know and sight-read some personal choice pieces. The Essential Elements series doesn’t include a guitar book so use your private lesson method book.
  • Percussion
    • Practice variations of rolls: buzz & open-stroke through 5-, and 9-stroke roll types. Listen to model players for each instrument, and recordings of jazz pieces (Blues and Rock) Practice #1, 5, 7, 8 from Drumline Book.
  • Saxophone
    • Come with questions and rhythms to work on next week that you may have incurred in rehearsals or practice time.
  •  Trumpet
    • Keep working on playing softly with solid tones
    • Still work on timing on Carnaval
    • Have the new song more ready next week
    • Work on speed with the interval exercise

PRELUDE ORCHESTRA (Beginner Students)

  • Practice Time: 20m/5d
  • Bass and Cello
    • Listen Daily: Suzuki 1 (Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPC7G0nvMEg&list=PL11XNZ_T1dFNYL-MUVJTQH7fh2TsJdjAg)
    • Watch: Yo-Yo Ma (https://youtu.be/3uiUHvET_jg?si=B0jucrf5qGnPp5Ib)
    • Parts of the Instrument
      • Bass: Afterlength, Bass bar, Belly, Bout, Bridge, C Bout, Dowel, Endblock, Endpin, F-Hole, Fingerboard, Flatback, Gmba shape, Headstock, Upper and Lower bout, machine heads, Mensur, Neck, Nut, Overstand, Peg box, Ribs, Romberg Bevel, Saddle, Scroll, Shoulders, Sound hole, Sound post, Table, Tailgut, Tailpiece, Tuning Keys, Violin Corner
      • Cello: scroll, pegs, peg box, nut, strings, neck, fingerboard, bridge, f-holes, tail piece, fine tuners, tail-chord, end-pin, front, back, purfling, sound post, bass-bar.
      • Bow: Tip, stick, horse-hair, ferrule* (I thought the spelling was ph, I was wrong), frog, screw, thumb leather, silver winding.
    • Rhythms (clapping https://photos.app.goo.gl/nrxnCqvWbuBghF7x5)
      • Huckleberry Jello
      • Gooseberry, Gooseberry
      • Pineapple, Pineapple (strawberry, strawberry)
      • Huckleberry, Huckleberry
      • Jello (shh) lo (or “”cello – bow””)
      • You can use any of these rhythms for a scale; we did huckleberry jello (aka Mississippi Stop Stop, aka makin’ bacon pancakes).
    • BOW ASSIGNMENT
      • 100 bow holds! Each day, if your house has stairs, practice bow hold on the bottom stair, and go up one stair, do a new bow-hold, shake out hand and take a step.
      • Up Like a Rocket
        • Up like a rocket, down like the rain,
        • Back and forth like a choo choo train.
        • Round and round like a great big drum,
        • Land on your head curved pinky and thumb.
      • Practice routine: Please don’t feel rushed when doing the following practice routine:
  • Violin & Viola
    • Watch Pre-twinkle: Setup Exercises Videos: https://a-musician-is.com (password: amusicianis)
    • Listen Daily: Suzuki 1 (Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfU-O0JeFbY)
    • Parts of the Instrument
    • Rest to play position – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAE87XSSW9c&list=PLQgFue6DLggg_7ggJE7c9uBmU3F7UsW3Y&index=3&t=198s
      • Against the wall
    • Rhythms (clapping https://photos.app.goo.gl/nrxnCqvWbuBghF7x5)
      • Huckleberry Jello
      • Gooseberry, Gooseberry
      • Pineapple, Pineapple
      • Huckleberry, Huckleberry
      • Jello (shh) lo
    • Bunny to Bow Grip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncyzq-N1Kvk&list=PLQgFue6DLggg_7ggJE7c9uBmU3F7UsW3Y&index=2&t=118s)
    • Scrubbing – https://youtu.be/rvivk_ctX6s
      • Against a Wall
    • Penguins
    • Bowing the Shoulder
    • Modified pengiuns
    • First finger taps
    • -climb monkey silently (just singing: I’m a little monkey, climbing up the ladder, climbing to the top to, pick a pink banana; I’m a little monkey, climbing down the ladder, climbing to the bottom, to eat my pink  banana
      • as well as plucking
    • BOW ASSIGNMENT
      • 100 bow holds! Each day, if your house has stairs, practice bow hold on the bottom stair, and go up one stair, do a new bow-hold, shake out hand and take a step.
      • Up Like a Rocket
        • Up like a rocket, down like the rain,
        • Back and forth like a choo choo train.
        • Round and round like a great big drum,
        • Land on your head curved pinky and thumb.
    • Table top exercise
    • planks

TRAINING ORCHESTRA (2nd Level Students or above)

  • Practice Time: 30m/5d
  •  Ensemble:
    • Remember to practice breathing in the rests!
    • 1. Scales, arp & 3rds, 3 octaves – C Major
    • 2. Review – Suzuki B1-Your current book
    • 3. Boil ’em Cabbage Down Variations 1, 2, and 3. – memorize
    • 4. Beautiful Skies
    • 5. Oh! Susanna
    • 6. Amazing Grace
    • 7. Buffalo Gals
    • 8. When the Saints Go Marching In
    • 9. Westward Journey
    • 10. Bonaparte’s Retreat
    • Remember to practice breathing in the rests and before entrances!
    • * PRACTICE POINTS:
      • choose 1 practice point every time you practice a small section
      • always work on tricky sections
      • 1. correct rhythm, steady tempo
      • 2. correct notes
      • 3. bow direction
      • 4. intonation
      • 5. dynamics
      • 6. slow to fast with metronome (work on this LAST!) 🙂
  •  Cello
  • Viola and Violin
    • Listen Daily: Suzuki 1
    • Watch Pre-twinkle: Setup Exercises Videos: https://a-musician-is.com (password: amusicianis)
      • Please watch the videos if you are behind or don’t remember the pieces. They are in the video playlist bk.1
    • Review (Use a metronome)
      • Twinkle B1 to Allegro
    • G Major Scale
      • 1st exercise- play scale degrees 1,4,5,8
      • 2nd exercise- play scale degrees 1,3,4,5,7,8
      • 3rd exercise- play scale degrees 1,2,3,4,,5,6,7,8
    • I Can Read
      • Lesson 15 and 16 rhythm and pitch
    • Table top exercise
    • Cat Cow
    • All review songs
    • perpetual motion
    • allegretto

MIDPOINT ORCHESTRA (3rd Level Students or above)

  • Practice Time: 45m/5d
  • Ensemble:
    • 1. Scales, arp & 3rds, 3 octaves – D Major; D Harmonic Minor
    • 2. Review – Suzuki B1-Your current book
    • 3. Variations on an Irish Tune – Variations on an Irish Tune practice all of it, especially counting the rests and breathing before entrances
    • 4. Moonlight Odyssey – measures 10-76″
    • * PRACTICE POINTS:
      • choose 1 practice point every time you practice a small section
      • always work on tricky sections
      • 1. correct rhythm, steady tempo
      • 2. correct notes
      • 3. bow direction
      • 4. intonation
      • 5. dynamics
      • 6. slow to fast with metronome (work on this LAST!) 🙂
  • Cello
  • Viola and Violin
    • Listen Daily: Suzuki 2-3
    • Review (Use a metronome)
      • Suzuki B1-beginning of B2
      • Practice everything from Suzuki Bk 1 and B2 up to Lully gavotte
    • G Major Scale through 2 octaves
      • 1st exercise- play scale degrees 1,4,5,8
      • 2nd exercise- play scale degrees 1,3,4,5,7,8
      • 3rd exercise- play scale degrees 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
    • Get your introducing positions book
    • ITP ex3
    • You will be expected to play lully by yourself next week

CONCERT ORCHESTRA (4th Level Students or above)

  • Practice Time: 60m/5d
  • Ensemble:
    • 1. Scales, arp & 3rds, 3 octaves – Ab minor
    • 2. Review: Suzuki B1-Current
    • 3. Beethoven Prelude and Fugue in e minor – all 3 movements;practice with metronome, pay careful attention to articulation, notes, and bowing
    • 4. Beethoven Trio Serenade, first movement – quarter note=80, pay careful attention to dynamics and articulation
    • 5. Revueltas – focusing on the first movement, pay careful attention to rhythm and notes. Begin learning the second movement of the Revueltas, focusing on notes and rhythms.
  • * PRACTICE POINTS:
    • choose 1 practice point every time you practice a small section
    • always work on tricky sections
    • 1. correct rhythm, steady tempo
    • 2. correct notes
    • 3. bow direction
    • 4. intonation
    • 5. dynamics
    • 6. slow to fast with metronome (work on this LAST!) 🙂

RECORDERS 1

  • Practice Time: 10m/4d
  • Remember Practice Records
  • During your practice, please work on:
    • Work on Concert Piece: Peace Like A River. Play along with this video or your sheet music! Warm-Up Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JGOhSfOX_o Main Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTFXKwEx5QA
    • Fingering for the following notes: E, low D, high D, B, A, G, and High C,
    • Recorder Karate song #5: Old MacDonald Had a Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1-02WBB_to
    • If you didn’t get to it in class, do your best to make sure the Music Theory Review on page 14 in your Recorder Star book is filled out. Read over it once or twice this week. We’ll double check our answers next week.
    • Play through page 15 and 16 in your Recorder Star book. Focus on smooth transitions between notes and using “too, too” to play each note for a nice crisp sound.
  • Instrument Care: Don’t forget to “blow” out your recorder after every practice section! One time this week, please rinse it with warm water and make sure it dries.
  • Happy practicing!

RECORDERS 2

  • Practice Time: 15m/4d
  • Remember Practice Records
  • Practice:
    • Keep working on Here Comes Winter, we’ll play that for a final time next week.
    • Practice all the songs on page 15. Focus on smooth transitions between notes and using “too, too” to play each note for a nice crisp sound.
    • Clap through the rhythm chart on page 13.
    • Have another song you learned over break ready to go to share at the beginning of class.
    • Keep listening to our concert song, In Christ Alone. We’ll hand out the sheet music next week! There are two notes we haven’t learned yet, but become familiar with the song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfU7M_s3mc
  • Instrument Care: Don’t forget to “blow” out your recorder after every practice section! One time this week, please rinse it with warm water and make sure it dries.
  • Happy practicing!

PRIME CHOIR

JUNIOR/SENIOR CHOIR (YOUTH CHOIR)

SIGNS AND WONDERS: ASL SIGNING CHOIR

DANCE

  • It was great to see you all this week.
    I am so glad to be back dancing with you all.
    Please remember to have your hair up and out of your
    face for class and to bring you dance clothes and
    shoes each week for class. I would love see more
    practice at home this week.
  • Block 4 – 2pm-3pm – Practice Time: 10m/3d
    • Review ballet terminology
      • *Plie – to bend
      • *Tendu – to pointe and stretch
      • *Battement Glisse – beating, gliding movement
      • *Rond De Jambe – circle of the leg
      • *Grand Battement – large beating movement
      • *Saute – to jump
      • *Passe – to Pass
      • *Pas de chat – step of the cat- ballet walks
    • Steps to review
      • *Chaine turn
      • *Pas de bourree
      • *Balance
    • Positions to review
      • *Vaganova 1st arabesque
      • *Vaganova 2nd arabesque
      • *Cecchetti 3rd arabesque
    • Stretching
  • Block 5 – 3pm-4pm – Practice Time: 15m/5d
  • Review Ballet terminology
    • * Plie – to bend
    • * Tendu – to pointe and stretch
    • * Battement Glisse – beating, gliding movement
    • * Rond De Jambe – circle of the leg
    • * En dehors – outward (out the door) away from supporting leg
    • * En dedans – inward towards supporting leg
    • * Frappe – to strike
    • * Fondu – to melt
    • * Grand Battement – large beating movement
    • * Saute – to jump
    • * Passe – to Pass
    • * Sous Sous – over/under
    • * Pas de chat – step of the cat
    • * Cambre – means “arched” and refers to a graceful, controlled bending of the upper body, which can be performed forward, backward, or to the side
    • * Circular Cambre
    • * Port de bras – “carriage of the arms” in ballet, referring to both the graceful, flowing movement of the arms and specific exercises designed to improve arm quality
    • * Pas de cheval – step of the horse
    • * Tembe – “fall” from one leg to the other, or from two legs to one, landing with a bent knee
    • * Develope – developed or unfolded
    • * En l’air – leg elevated, in the air
    • * A terre – on the floor
    • * En cloche – like a bell (front and back movement)
    • * Releve vs eleve – Releve starts from a plie to a rise and eleve rises from straight legs
    • * Assemble – assembled or joined together
    • * Chaine turns – Chains or links
    • *Failli – give away. A slide or brush-through transition step following a preceding jump or position.
  • Positions to review
    • *Vaganova 1st arabesque
    • *Vaganova 2nd arabesque
    • *Cecchetti 3rd arabesque
  • Combo:
    • Pique Arabesque Failli x2
    • Pique turn
    • Chaine turn
    • Chasse into Cecchetti 3rd arabesque
  • Stretching to increase flexiblity in hips
    • *frog stretch
    • *pigeon stretch
    • *while laying on back pull knee into chest then open knee side
  • Strengthening exercise for Grand plie back position (proper alignment for ballet)
  • While laying on back, engage abdominals and flatten back against the floor – repeat x10
  • Points to work on at barre
    • *Grand plie
      • do not go all the down in grande plie
      • heels push down
      • feel pinky toe on the floor to prevent rolling forward in the ankle – shallower demi plie
    • *Battement Tendu
      • when closing head turns to the front foot

GUIDED PE

  • No notes for this week.

ART (DRAWING & WATERCOLOR)

  • No notes for this week.

ART (TEXTILES – NEEDLE PUNCH)

  • No notes for this week.

ART (PHOTOGRAPHY)

THEATER

  • Great job today! It was so good being back together after the break (even though Miss Steph was out sick). Miss Steph will be working to assign people their monologues for this upcoming week.
  • History I: Creation to the Resurrection: Covers the period from 4004 B.C. to c.A.D 33

LITTLE MOVERS & LITTLE SHAKERS

  • Remember to listen to recordings daily this week

LITTLE CYCLES

  • Remember to listen to recordings and check out your books daily this week.
  • For next week’s homework, draw me a picture of your favorite part of your morning routine. Do you like the sunshine streaming through your window? Is brushing your hair something you enjoy? Or maybe breakfast is your favorite! Remember, those who complete homework get a sticker!

MUSIC MAKERS 1

  • Work on Memorizing Like a River Glorious and Micah 5:4-5
  • Bringing your music bags with your binders and listening to your cds!

MUSIC MAKERS 2

  • Work on Memorizing Like a River Glorious and Micah 5:4-5
  • Bringing your music bags with your binders and listening to your cds!

DISCOVERY

  • No notes for this week.
  • Dance
    • It was great to see you all this week. I am so glad to be back dancing with you all.
    • No Practice Records required
    • Position for review:
      • Feet:
      • 1st
      • 2nd
      • 3rd
    • Arms:
      • 1st
      • 2nd
      • 5th
    • Arabesque
      • Cecchetti 3rd arabesque
    • Steps across the floor:
      • Marching – pointed toes
      • Skips – forward and backwards
      • Chasse en avante and corner
      • Leaps – straight front/back leg
    • Review ballet terminology
      • *Plie – to bend
      • *Tendu – to pointe and stretch
      • *Degage/glisse – beating, gliding movement
      • *Rond de Jambe – circle of the leg
      • *Pas de Chat – step of the cat

PLAYROOM WITH HELPING HANDS

  • After Lunch Check-in: Please be sure to check your student in room 212
  • Check-out: Please be sure to quietly check your student out in room 212 or (playground) with the Playroom Helping Hands

COMPUTER SCIENCE (STANDARD APPLICATION)

  • Topics Covered: Event Handling. For further review, you may reference https://learnpythontherightway.com/chapter/chapter-10.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE (FUNDAMENTALS OF EMBEDDED PROGRAMMING)

  • Topics Covered: Advanced State and User Input

JUNIOR HELPER

  • No notes for this week.

STUDY HALL

  • No notes for this week.
Wonder Memo

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