Plan for the coming weeks

Dear Band Parents,

I hope you are all doing as well as can be expected! I am emailing about something entirely optional I am doing to hopefully help out. 

I am going to be making daily band videos here at home and emailing them out to you daily starting tomorrow. You can pass them onto your children so they can watch on their devices if they like. These are based on our curriculum and mirror as closely as possible what I would be doing in lessons and at rehearsals were we to have school. I want to make clear that these aren't graded assignments. As a parent, I am sitting here with 5 kids trying to keep them happy and learning and not at each other's throats and I am thinking a daily video from the band director to keep kids practicing and learning might help. If these aren't helpful to you feel free to ignore them, but ideally I want to see our students practicing and growing as musicians even if we aren't in school. 

Please see the letter from our principals about when the opportunity to grab things from school building will be available. Hopefully students can get their instruments then if they are still in school, but I totally understand about priorities and so forth. 

I hope these videos will help. I think making them will my sanity here while I am stuck at home as well! 

Again, I hope you are all doing as well as can be expected. Parents everywhere have my admiration. 

Emre Akter

Band Director - MHHS