This year is going to be incredible and I am so happy to have your student as part of the largest spirit organization on campus!
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Thank you for your patience as I am late in getting this post out for the week.
Week at a glance:
Tuesday:
Percussion ensemble until 4:15
High School band meeting:
7 PM @ CHS Band room: required for all students participating in band next year. One adult family representative must be present
Wednesday:
Jazz Band until 4:15
Thursday:
High School Band BBQ: Free concert by the CHS Jazz Bands and Marching Band! Come out and support and purchase some BBQ!
Friday:
CMS School dance: Parent volunteers needed
Carowinds
Our 8th graders and chaperones had a blast on our annual Carowinds Trip this weekend! Thank you to the chaperones who helped keep our students safe and ensured that we had fun. Students enjoyed go karts, put-put, slides, shopping, lots of food and plenty of roller coasters!
School Dance Volunteers
This Friday, our school will have our annual dance for our 7th and 8th graders at the Indoor Facility. If you would like to help run concessions with other band parents and teachers, we would appreciate your help! Please email me at maria.menendez@carrolltoncityschools.net
Spring Concert Information: Next Monday!
Our Spring Concert will be on Monday, May 5th! The time are listed below for each ensemble.
Reminders:
Dress is all black, with no crocks, sandals, flip flops.
Skirts and dresses must have black leggings underneath
Our concerts are required for all band members and students are required to stay for the duration of their portion of the concert.
6th grade/Symphonic Band:
Report to MAC @ 5:15
6th grade performs @ 6:00PM
Symphonic Band performs @ 6:20
6:45 PM Dismissal for both groups
Concert Band/Wind Ensemble:
Report to MAC @ 6:45
Concert Band performs @ 7:00
Wind Ensemble performs @ 7:25
7:45 PM Dismissal for both groups
Medieval Times 6th Grade Only
Mr. Trumble is excited to take our 6th graders to Medieval Times on May 9th!
Cost is $0 to our students as the CUES band program will cover the costs for our 6th graders.
Chaperones are needed but will pay their own admittance: $30
This Thursday at the CHS Band room, all students participating in band next year will have a mandatory meeting with Dr. Carr and Mr. Nelson. This will include woodwinds, brass, percussion, and colorguard members.
Please ensure that a parent/guardian is in attendance at this meeting on Tuesday, not just the student.
This week is going to be amazing and I cannot for you all to hear the students on Monday!
Tuesday: Percussion Ensemble rehearsal until 4:15 open to ALL CMS Band members
No fees or auditions required
Wednesday: Jazz band after school until 4:15
Friday: 8th Grade Carowinds Trip
We had a busy week at CMS!
Our 7th graders had their annual end-of-year trip to Urban Air in Newnan, Georgia. Students enjoyed the trampolines as well as obstacle courses, virtual reality games, and the zip line. Thank you to all of the chaperones who helped out!
Our 6th grade band members traveled to Woodland High School to perform for and with the Woodland high school band and then traveled down the street to LakePoint Station. Students performed a concert, rehearsed with the high school ensemble, then sat in on their rehearsal as they practiced some of their music. Once we arrived at Lakepoint Station, we enjoyed laser tag, Pizza, Bowling, Arcade time, and clip and climb! Our chaperones once again knocked it out of the park!
Great job to both 7th and 8th grade this week on your field trips. We hope that had fun!
Gray Esslinger Awarded Scholarship Cup
Congratulations to our very own, Grey Esslinger in being awarded the Scholarship Cup at Monday’s Honors Night. This award is awarded to the 8th grader who maintained the highest cumulative average through middle school. We are so proud of you, Gray for being a leader in our school! Way to make the band program proud!
8th Grade Only
We have some exciting things happening over the next few weeks!
Percussion camp this week Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 4-6 in CHS Band room.
2/29 @ 7PM Meeting for ALL high school band members for next year. CHS Band room
This is where we give out dates, medical and financial info for high school band as well as announce our marching show for next year! Required for all students and at least one parent representing each student.
This past week was full of professional learning with Coach King, CHS Football coach, and our annual Raffle Party! Thank you to everyone involved and for being both engaged learners on Commit Day and awesome partiers at our raffle party! Thank you to our parent volunteers as well!
It must be filled out by the Monday that we come back from break.
Raffle spreadsheet linked here. Each ticked sold equals $5 off or your trip.
Gift of Music Instrument Upgrade! April 17th
Now is a GREAT time to upgrade the instrument that your student is renting to something more advanced! The Gift of Music will have an instrument night open to all Carroll County band students at the CHS Band room from 4-6PM on April 17th.
Students can upgrade instruments or even purchase new mouthpieces and equipment for their current instruments. Instruments will be available for students to try out and the finance team will be there to answer any questions that arise.
High School Percussion Clinics (8th grade only) 4-6 PM
Commit Day: During the school day for our 7th/8th grade members during 1st block
Tuesday:
Raffle Party after school until 5:00 PM
Commit day for 6th graders during 5th block
High School Percussion Clinics (8th grade only) 4-6 PM
Wednesday:
Jazz Band after school until 4:15 PM
Raffle Party
We are excited for our annual raffle party on Tuesday after school! If you would like to volunteer, we would appreciate it! We will serve ice cream, have a glow party, and an inflatable obstacle course. Please email me at maria.menendez@carrollltoncityschool.net
Congratulations!
Our CMS Wind Ensemble had the honor of performing at Georgia State University this past Wednesday. They performed beautifully and represented our school system with pride. The school system published an article on the event that is worth the read.
Happy Sunday and a HUGE congratulations to our 7th and 8th graders who performed at Large Group Performance Evaluation last week. They played wonderfully on stage, sight read a brand new piece of music in front of a judge, and represented our school system at a high level.
The students have worked very hard on leading up to this performance and I am thankful for all of our staff for their help in ensuring that the students were safe and were able to focus on making music this past week. Dr. Carr, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Trumble, and Mr. Boyle were all in attendance during our three performances last week. Thank you!
In addition, our high school program had three ensembles perform as well and they did a tremendous job! Congratulations to our band program on a very successful Large Group Performance Evaluation.
Week at a Glance
Monday: CMS Wind Ensemble GSU Preview Concert @7 PM at the Mabry Arts Center
Report time for WE students, 6 PM at MAC.
Encouraged for all band members to attend and support
Wednesday: Wind Ensemble performance at GSU: Itinerary here
No Jazz Band
CSU WE MFA Preview Concert
Our Wind Ensemble is excited to perform twice this week! Once at our preview concert tomorrow. This concert is at 7 PM at the Mabry Arts Center and we would love a huge audience for them to get them confident for Wednesday!
They will perform at the Southeastern Regional Festival at Georgia State University this Wednesday at 9:45 am in the beautiful Rialto Center at Georgia State. Both concerts are free and open to the public and we would appreciate your support!
Wind Ensemble Students:
Monday Preview Concert:
Report time to MAC 6:00 PM
Woodwinds/brass set up chairs and stands
Percussion walk to high school to bring over equipment
Concert attire:
Black dress pants, Black dress shoes, band polo, black belt if needed, black socks if needed.
Your black polo will be given to you in class tomorrow morning.
Concert begins at 7:00 pm and should conclude at 7:30 pm
Bring money for Jersey Mikes/Five Guys/Starbucks/Del Taco for dinner
Bring change of clothes for after concert in a bag with a hanger if possible
We will be given a clothing hanger to store our belongings so that we can change after we perform
Outfit must be semi formal during the field trip: think Easter Sunday at church. Khakis, button ups, sweaters, polos, dress shoes, nice shoes, etc.
No jeans, sweatpants, t shirts allowed at the event from performing members.
Publix Boxed lunch will be provided for lunch and the students will enjoy the beautiful Centennial Olympic Park during that time.
Chaperones will follow the report time and itinerary that the students have. Semi Formal attire preferred
Your boxed lunch will be provided for you.
Remind 101 Code for all chaperones and students: @cmswegsu
* Bring charging block for phones as we will have a long day*
Raffle Fundraiser
The raffle fundraiser was a HUGE success! We cannot wait to celebrate with our students at our Raffle Party on April 1st! More information to come! The Google Sheet below has our info for which students have sold how many tickets, and to whom. I will continue updating this tonight with the payments that have come in the past two days so that we can have an accurate drawing tomorrow for the grand prizes!
Wednesday: Symphonic Band LGPE (No Jazz band rehearsal)
Friday: Raffle Fundraiser ticket sales are due.
LGPE: 7th and 8th grade only
We wish all of our 7th and 8th graders good luck as they perform at the Carroll County Performing Arts Center this week Individual itineraries are below. Please remember to wear your all black uniform for the concert.
These concerts are FREE and open to the public. Let’s show our support!
The following schedules are tentative. Our transportation department is working diligently to get buses for our groups. If either of the three groups has a change in their schedule, I will inform the students and families of that group.
Tuesday 3/18 Concert Band:
1:15 PM Report to Band Room
1:30 PM Load bus
1:45 PM Depart CMS
2:00 PM Arrive at CCPAC
2:00 PM* Watch Band
3:00 PM Warm Up
3:30 PMPerformance Free and open to the public!
4:45 PM Depart Time
5:00 PM Arrive back at CMS
3/19 Symphonic Band:
2:45 PM Report to Band Room
3:00 PM Load bus
3:30 PM Depart CMS
3:45 PM Arrive at CCPAC
4:15* PM Watch Band
4:45 PM Warm Up
5:15 PM Performance Time
6:30 PM Depart Time
6:45 PM Arrive back at CMS
3/18 Wind Ensemble:
5:00 PM Report to Band Room
5:15 PM Load bus
5:45 PM Depart CMS
6:00 PM Arrive at CCPAC
6:30* PM Watch Band
7:00 PM Warm Up
7:30 PM Performance Time
8:45 PM Depart Time
9:00 PM Arrive back at CMS
Raffle Fundraiser: Extended to this Friday
Due to the timing of LGPE for our older students, we will extend the raffle fundraiser to this Friday, March 21st.
Students must have 10 tickets sold by this Friday in order to be admitted into the Raffle Party on April 1st. Our list is located here and in Google Classroom so that students can see their progress on ticket sales: CMS BAND RAFFLE TICKET SPREADSHEET
Upcoming Dates:
3/18 LGPE
Concert Band: 3:30 PM
Wind Ensemble: 7:30 PM
3/19 LGPE
Symphonic Band: 5:15
3/24 Raffle Fundraiser Drawing during homeroom
3/24 WE GSU MFA Preview Concert at 6:00 PM Required for all students to attend
3/25 Carowinds payment due
3/26 WE GSU MFA Performance: All Day. Itinerary here
4/1 Raffle Party after school
Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday and I look forward to seeing the students tomorrow morning!
Our 7th and 8th grade groups have been working very hard for their concerts this week. We all wish them luck as they perform at the Carroll County Performing Arts Center next week Individual itineraries are below. Please remember to wear your all black uniform for the concert.
The following schedules are tentative. Our transportation department is working diligently to get buses for our groups. If either of the three groups has a change in their schedule, I will inform the students and families of that group.
CMS Trojan Band 