Today was a busy day in the world of music in our family. Sarah played in the pep band for the girls basketball game (Metea vs. Waubonsie). She had a blast and it was even better that Metea won by 1 point! 🙂 Sorry, don’t have a good picture of her playing! 🙁 While Sarah […]
Today was a very busy day! This morning, Brittany had to perform with the Still Middle School Chamber Orchestra at the Waubonsie High School Santa Breakfast. Angela took Kirstyn and Zach and attended this and had a ball. Brittany did a great job, and Kirstyn and Zach loved playing games, sitting on Santa’s lap, and
Tonight Kirstyn had her holiday chorus concert at Gombert Elementary. She was very excited and loves to sing! The Still Middle School Honors Chorus was invited to come and sing with them, so Brittany got dressed up and went. It was a fun concert and we were able to take Zachary and Ben. Zach was
Today was the first big snow of the season! Was in the 20s most of the day and snowed all day. Angela shoveled the driveway 3 times while I was at work! Kirstyn, Zach, and Ben went outside and played in the snow. They worked on getting a snowman made and got about half-way done
Today was quite the interesting day! Brittany had a concert tonight featuring all the honors music groups. She sang with the Honors Chorus and played her violin with the Chamber Orchestra. She is doing quite well! She just got a brand new violin ($1400 ouch!) but it sounds soooo much better than her old rented
Tonight Kirstyn had her very first band concert! It was held over at Waubonsie Valley High School in the auditorium and her school was combined with 4 other elementary schools in the district. It was great to hear them play for the first time together. They showed examples of what was good and what was
Tonight Brittany had a “Sing and Share” at Waubonsie Valley High School. They put on this program every year and invite the honors choruses from the middle schools that feed into Waubonsie to sing with them. It was a short program, but it showcased some of the talent at the high school. The honors choruses
Brittany had her Still Middle School Fall Chorus Concert tonight and it turned out very well. She loves singing in Honors Chorus and they did very well. She also sang in the 8th grade chorus and did wonderfully well there too. The chorus director also had the parents and attendees stand and sing as well!
Tonight marked another piece of history, as the Metea Valley High School Music Department held it’s very first Fall Band, Chorus, and Orchestra concerts! It’s funny to say that, because everything at Metea this year is a first. 🙂 It just sounds cool saying that, so we keep it up! Sarah did very well in
Sarah just got her pictures back from the first Metea Homecoming Dance she went to with 2 of her friends, so we thought we’d post it! Don’t they look cute! 🙂
Brittany participated tonight in her first orchestra concert of the year. It was held at Waubonsie Valley High School and was done in conjunction with the first high school orchestra concert. Still Middle School and Scullen Middle School played together, and then each middle school played with one of the high school orchestra groups. It
Brittany had her final middle school Conference Cross Country meet today at DuPage River Park. There were 20+ schools there competing and she ran her race in just over 16 minutes. That’s a personal best for her and she is getting better and better. It was a beautiful day for the race and the course
