CMS Trojan Band

Grades

Our grades from LGPE, the 6th grade field trip, and more will begin going into the gradebook. A “Missing” assignment in Infinite Campus will come across as a zero until the student has made up the assignment. Please help your student with their make up work in order to keep their grades where they should be. Be on the lookout and let me know if you have any questions.

Raffle Fundraiser

A HUGE congratulations to our Raffle Fundraiser winners and to all students who participated! In addition, we had an incredible Raffle Party celebration before Spring Break. Thank you to all of our volunteers for helping with that and congratulations again to our band program on a successful Spring fundraiser. This was our most successful one yet!

Raffle Winners:

Karee Payne: $50 Amazon Gift Card

Sondi Cooper: $50 Amazon Gift Card

Denise Worthington: Beats Headphones

Kerry Godsey: Nintendo Switch

JR. B: 65″ Roku Smart TV

Gary Warren: VR Headset

Winners will be contacted this week and they will receive their prizes. Thank you for buying a ticket!

West Georgia Arts Summer Camp

The West Georgia Arts Collective is excited to announce a summer camp hosted right here at CMS!

With music at the center, students will enjoy a 5-day event while learning a set of music pieces with a public concert to be presented. Each day will include rehearsals and activities that include: a Six Flags Over Georgia trip, water park visit, service project, ice cream social, presentations, physical-education activities, and more!

This is open to any 6th-8th grade students and I would love to have a huge CMS showing of students! Sign up today!

https://www.westgaarts.com/services-3

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask!

Sincerely,

Ms. Maria Menendez

maria.menendez@carrolltoncityschools.net

Schedule for the week:

Tuesday: CHS Band Auditions for 8th Graders
Wednesday: Jazz Band after school until 4:15 PM
Thursday: Raffle Party until 5:00 PM
Friday: 7:45 AM Jazz Band

LGPE Performance

Our 7th and 8th graders represented our school system and band program at the annual Large Group Performance Evaluation on March 19th. This concert took a lot of preparation and I am so thankful for our staff and parents who made the day move smoothy. Thank you to Dr. Carr, Mr. Nelson, Ms. Hanlin, Ms. Morrissey, Ms. Breaux, and Mr. Boyle. Our school system provided transportation and got our students to and from safely. The students performed beautifully on stage and in the sight reading room. In addition, our high school program program performed earlier in the week and did a wonderful job at LGPE.

This concert is an extremely important concert and we are so thankful to everyone who worked to make it a success. We are also thankful for the students who balanced this important concert with other commitments. Congratulations to everyone who performed!

Raffle Fundraiser Party!

Great job on our annual raffle fundraiser! Our band program raised money to support field trips, repair instruments, and pay for additional staff to teach our students. I am so excited to see so many of our students at the annual Raffle Party on Thursday! If you would like to volunteer to help serve ice cream and monitor, please email me at maria.menendez@carrolltoncityschools.net

Tomorrow morning we will draw names for the grand prizes below:

$50 Amazon gift card
Beats headphones
Nintendo Switch
65” Roku 4k Smart TV

In addition, we will draw a name for the student who gets to win a Virtual Reality Headset!

Students must have sold 15 tickets to attend the Raffle Party on Thursday. Please check here to see if they are able to attend.

6th Grade UWG Trip!

Friday was such a success for our 6th grade band members! Our day started at CHS performing for the Carrollton High School Wind Ensemble! We performed our 3rd quarter concert and the students performed with energy! We were then treated with hearing the CHS Wind Ensemble perform their pieces ranging from their LGPE music to recognizable Disney tunes! It was a special treat to have the Wind Ensemble play Avengers with us and we are so thankful for the high school program for hosting us!

We then went to the University of West Georgia and toured the Humanities Building thanks to our student teacher, Ms. Morrissey. The students were able to view the college building and get a preview into life after high school band! Last but not least, we ate at the UWG West Commons Dining hall and had so much fun relaxing and filling our stomachs!

The parent chaperones were incredible with 112 6th graders and the trip would not have worked without them. Thank you to our chaperones who volunteered their time on Friday!

High School Auditions: March 31st

We are so excited for our 8th graders to audition for the Carrollton High School Band program! We are so fortunate to have an incredible band program right down the street. This week we will work with our 8th graders to prepare for this audition. This audition is not a “make or not make” audition but is a placement audition for their classes as 9th graders.

Please visit https://chstrojanband.com/bandauditions/ for information on what is required. All 8th grade students need to sign up for their placement audition in Google Classroom.

Upcoming Dates:

High School Band Auditions March 31st
Raffle Party: April 2nd
Carowinds Field Trip: April 24th-25th
Urban Air Field Trip April 28th 7th Grade Only
TBLA Rome Emperors Field Trip April 30th
Spring Concert for all CMS Students: May 7th
6th Grade Six Flags Field Trip: May 9th

Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday!