Today is the last day of the 2014-2015 school year. Graduation is 6:30p tonight – rain or shine. (and right now, it’s a bit spitty outside). My end of the year list includes:
Placing my “Early Bird” music order with University Music http://www.universitymusic.com/ with whom I have had a very successful 30+ year relationship. I have chosen repertoire for my Concert Choir and Chorale and have already distributed the repertoire in their first rehearsal last Monday to my A Cappella Choir, Voices of Ridge and Ridgemen.
Placing an order for tux shirts for the new tenors and basses of the A Cappella Choir.
Putting away well over 3000+ pieces of choral music.
Putting away Robes, stoles, dry-cleaned tuxes and gowns, cummerbunds, bow ties and suspenders.
Bringing home 50 white polo shirt to launder for next season.
Creating the attendance portion of my grade book for the A Cappella Choir.
Storing everything in my room in boxes over the summer – including dismantling my computers and printers.
Placing an order for Music Theory workbooks as I will have two sections of Theory next year – Fall and Spring. I use Benward Music in Theory and Practice
I have entered the spring concert repertoire in my EXCEL database which represents a complete listing, by year, of everything we have ever concertized in our Winter and Spring concerts.
I need to create QR codes for attendance for my three ensemble classes. They will go into the choir folders in the fall.
I have duplicated my lunch/study passes on card stock which permit my singers to come to my room from the cafeteria for daily Choir Sectionals.
I have replaced the dates on the classroom banner (created by VistaPrint) to reflect the concert dates for next school year. (See photo.)
I will work on creating a new webpage in Google which will list all my handouts as attachments.
I need to create books for my accompanist.
I need to figure out how to repair three pairs of tux pants where the mechanism used to expand the waistband has broken. (I’ll probably sew Velcro onto the waistband as a quick fix!)
I have printed out clean uniform sign-out sheets for next year’s polo shirts, gowns, tux jackets and pants and robes & stoles.
I went through all my choral folders and replaced those that were beyond repair.
I will go through the “job description” pages that I have kept all year and update them with the notes I took. I found it to be a great help as I checked the monthly lists at the start and midway point of each month. I will post the complete 10-month job description here if you would like to model it for next year. I highly recommend it!
I am now looking forward to the World Drumming Class that I will take for one week in July. http://www.worldmusicdrumming.com/index.html and attending the NJ-ACDA Summer Conference to spend two days with headliner Ysaye Barnwell. http://www.njacdaevents.info/
It has been a wonderful year.
Thank you for reading and going along for the ride!
Happy Summer !
Barbara
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