Busy School Week
First we had the Band Parent Meeting at Taylor on Wednesday. I had to plan and co-ordinate with Mr. MgGaw, and came away with more action items (of course). Then on Thursday we had Haley’s Back-to-School night. September is such a busy month!
PTA Website
I’m obviously a candidate for Volunteers Anonymous because I volunteered to set up the new PTA web site for Taylor. We had a design meeting on 9/15, after which I put together a draft. Hopefully we’ll get it going soon.
Maze Day – middle school registration
Kathie and I spent several hours on Thursday 8/16 staffing the table for the Music program at the middle school. I came back the next day to help our volunteers get started, and have been working ever since to enter all of the data from the forms we collected, and get information to the school about kids whose schedules need to change. Whew!
Taylor Maze Day
As the new Music Parent Liaison for the Taylor Band, I’m keeping busy. Including working at “Maze Day”, the registration event at Taylor. It’s this morning and tomorrow morning. Kathie is working with me today, and we have other volunteers for tomorrow, when I’ll have to be there anyway for Haley’s registration.
Katelyn Starts 10th Grade
Katelyn started 10th grade at Mills High School on Tuesday the 14th. So far she likes her classes and teachers, although the 7am band thing continues to be difficult. It’s easier now, though, since her friend Drew, who’s a year behind her in school and lives up the street, is now at Mills; we’re sharing carpooling with Drew’s mom, Lynn. Yay!
Katelyn is now a Sophomore
After finishing classes on Thursday, Katelyn went back on Friday to play with the band at graduation. She got sunburned, competed heavily in poker game (with face-flicking as the coin-don’t ask), and got home exhausted but having had a lot of fun. She’s now officially a Sophomore!
Taylor Spring Concert
Haley played the drum set with the 6th grade “Bulldog Band”, and helped out on one song with the Concert Band.
Tale of Two Problems
First Katelyn hurt her elbow in PE (whacked it on a metal ring in the pool while swimming) on Tuesday. Kathie had to take her to the doctor and for xrays (luckily nothing broken), so I had to leave work and get Haley to her drum lesson. So now she can’t move it well enoguh to play her saxophone. On Tuesday night she spent 20 minutes trying to convince me that attending band rehearsal in the morning (the second-to-last rehearsal of the year) would be completley pointless. I tried to explain to her that listening, watching the music, and fingering even without an instrument were all different ways to rehearse music. She was absolutely convinced it isn’t, and she would be bored out of her mind. She is sure I’m cruel and ridiculous for waking her up 75 minutes earlier to attend class. Had a nasty altercation yesterday morning getting her out of bed. Not a great way to start a day.
Then Haley lost her Social Studies book. Couldn’t do homework, so borrowed a book from the teacher the next day to finish it and turn it in a day late. Then the teacher insisted on taking back the borrowed book, so she couldn’t do her homework again last night. We’ve torn apart our houses and can’t find it. Guess she’ll have to pay for it, but meanwhile doesn’t he realize she can’t do her homework without a book? Oh, and the school and public libraries don’t have a copy. Sigh.
Band Upheaval
We learned ove rthe weekend that Doug Miner, the band directory for both Mills High School and the West Bay Community Band, was in a serious motorcycle accident on Saturday the 19th. He will recover, but it will be a slow process as his injuries are relatively serious. The school is finding a substitute to cover the last few days of school and the performance at graduation. The WBCB is looking for another conductor for a while. One of the musicians led the group at Sunday’s performance at San Carlos Hometown Days, which I missed.
Best wishes to Doug – get well!!
Haley and Kathie go to Disneyland
Haley was part of the Taylor Band who performed at Disneyland and the Heritage Festival in Fullerton over the weekend. Kathie went as a chaperone. They left in the early afternoon on Thursday, May 17th, and returned on Sunday, May 20th at about 11pm. It was really hard getting Haley up for school the next day!
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