Trimmer's Triumph

oops!!!

Here is the YouTube link for the slide show. I left off a letter from the end!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dWsr31Pwg

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!!

What a great year!!!! Congrats to all band students on a terrific 2008-2009! I am so very proud of each of you and I hope that you each had a great experience this school year! Congrats and good luck to our 8th graders! I will always be so proud of you and I LOVED having the chance to be your teacher! Keep in touch and I will miss you all!

NEW BAND WEB-SITE!!!! VISIT US @ www.lmmsbands.com

8th Graders! Your slide show from the spring concert is up on YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dWsr31Pwg

Have a great summer!!!

-Trimmer :)

FINAL DISNEY PAYMENT DUE TUESDAY, MARCH 10

THE FINAL DISNEY TRIP PAYMENT OF $260.00 IS DUE TUESDAY, MARCH 10TH.

LGPE INFO FOR 7th & 8th GRADE BANDS!

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THIS INFO ALREADY,BUT HERE IS A LISTING OF THE LGPE PERFORMANCE DAYS AND TIMES FOR OUR FOUR 7th and 8th GRADE BANDS!

• LOST MOUNTAIN 8th GRADE CONCERT BAND (8-1 class)- MONDAY, MARCH 9th @ McEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL. PERFORMANCE @ 7:15pm

• LOST MOUNTAIN 8th GRADE SYMPHONIC BAND (8-2 class)- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11th @ McEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL. PERFORMANCE @ 7:00pm

• LOST MOUNTAIN 7th GRADE CONCERT BAND (7-1 class)- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18th @ KELL HIGH SCHOOL. PERFORMANCE @ 4:50pm

• LOST MOUNTAIN 7th GRADE SYMPHONIC BAND (7-2 class) - FRIDAY, MARCH 20th @ KELL HIGH SCHOOL. PERFORMANCE @ 4:55pm.
  

Yes I am bloggin'...don't faint. :)

THE ANNUAL PRE- LGPE CONCERT is this THURSDAY, FEB. 26th here at LOST MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THE THEATER! Each student should wear their formal concert attire that is listed below:

 

Girls-black top (3/4 sleeve or full sleeve), black pants, black socks, and black shoes.

Boys-White dress shirt(not tux shirt), black slacks, black socks, and black shoes.

 

7-2 band needs to arrive at 6:20pm and you perform at 7:00pm

7-1 band needs to arrive at 6:45pm and you perform at 7:30pm

8-1 Band needs to arrive at 7:30 pm and you perform at 8:00pm

8-2 band needs to arrive at 8:00pm and you perform at 8:30pm.

 

This concert is in the band handbook calendar and must be attended by the students. This is our "progress report" concert for our LGPE performances that we have in March. LGPE is basically the standardized exam for each band and we perform a series of musical selections for a panel of judges and clinicans. Letters and field trip permission forms were sent home last week so please ask your child about them if you have not seen them.

 

Thanks so much and we'll see you Thursday evening at LMMS for the concerts.

Mr. Trimmer

DATES FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS

DISNEY MEETING FOR 8TH GRADE BAND & JAZZ BAND- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10 @ 6PM (LMMS THEATER)

6TH GRADE- CONCERT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 @ 7:00pm (students report to LMMS @ 6:30)

7TH GRADE ADVANCED BAND CONCERT- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 @ 8:00PM (students report to LMMS @ 7:15)

7TH & 8TH SYMPHONIC BAND
-REHEARSAL THURSDAY MORNING @ 8am (arrive @7:50)

-CLINIC AFTERSCHOOL- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18th 5pm-8pm. (students will stay after-school and will be fed at 4:30. This clinic is mandatory and has been on the calendar. The clinic is with Mr. Chris Ferrell from Hillgrove HS and will conclude with a parent meeting @ 7:30pm)

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR BEGINNING OF 2nd NINE WEEKS

ALL BAND STUDENTS!!

NEXT TUESDAY (21st) IS FUNDRAISING DELIVERY DAY FOR 7th AND 8th GRADE AND WEDNESDAY (22nd) IS FUNDRAISING DELIVERY DAY FOR 6TH GRADE!!! YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR ORDERED ITEMS ON YOUR SPECIFIC DAY SOMETIME BETWEEN 5-8PM AT LMMS! PLEASE ENTER AT THE "CAR RIDER" ENTRANCE, STOP AT THE FLAGPOLE TO GIVE YOUR NAME, AND THEN FOLLOW THE DRIVE THROUGH PATH TO PICK UP YOUR ORDER IN THE BUS LANES AREA!!! PLEASE BE PATIENT AS THIS SOMETIMES CAN GET BACKED UP A LITTLE, BUT REST ASSURED THAT WE WILL MOVE QUICKLY AND EFFICENTLY!

ALSO, WE NEED MANY HELPERS FOR THOSE EVENINGS! FAMILIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO WORK TOGETHER AND IN A TEAM!!! IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE TO HELP FROM 5-8 FOR THE FUNDRAISING DELIVERY, PLEASE EMAIL MR.TRIMMER @ jeremy.trimmer@cobbk12.org AND VISIT http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=d7uGkLZXCes2VG7vu3V2fg_3d_3d">

This survey will collect information for us!

WE REALLY MUST HAVE MANY HELPERS TO MAKE THIS GO SMOOTHLY SO PLEASE CONSIDER COMING AND HELPING OUT! LASTLY, ANY FAMILIES THAT HAVE WAGONS AND SUCH TO DONATE FOR THE TWO DAYS OF DELIVERY, WE WILL BE IN NEED OF SOME!

7th and 8th Symphonic Band Students & Parents:

The preperation for the UGA MIDFEST Performance is going great and we are excited about how the students are doing! PLease make sure of a few things!

1- please have your children on time for rehearsals on Thursday mornings! We begin right at 8 and we still have many students coming in late! Please arrive at 7:50 so that the students have time to unpack and warm-up before rehearsal begins! These rehearsals are our ONLY chance to put the 7th and 8th graders together so it is imperative that we get as much time together as possible so that the students are successful!

2- the uniform for all performances is as follows:

girls- black top with a 3/4 length sleeve and a rounded neck (NOT V), and either nice black slacks or an ankle length black skirt and black shoes. EVERYTHING MUST BE ALL BLACK!

boys- a bright white, long sleeved dress shirt, black long tie, nice black slacks (not jeans ), black socks, and black dress shoes. Students will be able to purchase the tie at the school store in a few weeks for $10.00. Also, the students will all wear a black vest that the band will provide for the performances.

PLEASE AQUIRE ALL OF THESE MATERIALS ASAP! :)

3- In addition to rehearsals, important dates are:

Tuesday, Nov.18- clinic at LMMS from 5-8pm (REQUIRED!!!)

Monday, December 8- UGA Preview Concert at Hillgrove HS -arrive at 6:15pm; performance at 7pm

Friday, Dec. 12- PERFORMANCE AT UGA!!! 8:30pm!

6th graders:

Please make sure that you are practicing and turning in practice logs on Fridays! NO LATE LOGS ACCEPTED (unless absent!)

The 6th graders are off to a good start! Thanks for your hard work and effort over the first nine weeks! :)

UPCOMING PEFORMANCES:

Tuesday, NOV. 11: 7th advanced and 6th Grade Fall Concert

Thursday, DEC. 4th: 7-1 and 8-1 Winter Concert

Monday, Dec 8th: LMMS 7th and 8th Grade Combined Symphonic Band UGA Preview Concert @ Hillgrove

Friday, Dec. 12th: LMMS 7th and 8th Grade Combined Symphonic Band Featured Performance at The University of Georgia for Mid-Fest

SUMMER IS ALMOST OVER

Greetings from Illinois! I am finishing up my last days here at the University of Illinois and will be returning to Atlanta/Kennesaw this weekend! I am very happy to have spent my last three summers here, but I am ready to be home....for sure!

As we approach this next week, a few reminders.

Ms. Scott and/or I will be calling some of you regarding a rehearsal for the sixth grade recruitment performance. It will be only 8th graders and we talked about this at the end of the last school year. Details are coming...

All returning students should 1)play your instruments some over the next week to get some of the dust off (it will make the first few weeks a lot less painful) and 2) get the materials needed for this year (reeds, sticks/mallets,valve oil, etc....)

All students need a black, 1/2 inch binder, and the bandbook. The bandbooks are the Standard of Excellence book 2 for 7th grade (blue book) and Standard of Excellece Book 3 (green book) for 8th grade. DONT THROW AWAY YOUR OLD BOOKS YET! YOU'LL NEED THEM THE BEGINNING TO THE SCHOOL YEAR!!!

Some students never picked up your school instrument over the summer. Therefore you have not practiced. If you want to pick up your instrument next week to practice some, that would be great. Email or call us.

Remember, we are going to be hitting the ground running as there are some concerts that sneak up quickly for a few groups. The 7th & 8th Grade Combined Symphonic Band (honor band) has a concert early in the school year as well as the December performance at The University of Georgia. We will begin the before-school rehearsals the 2nd week or 3rd week of the school year so please make attempts to get  back in the groove of playing your instrument outside of the school day some....(PRACTICE!) :)

Incoming 6th graders, we cannot wait to get to know you more and to also get many more of you signed up for our great band program! We have a GREAT group already signed up and can't wait for more! You do not need your instruments the first day of school and we'll give you more info once we meet in August.

Okay...I have a final exam to study for. Take care and see you all soon!

Trimmer

FRIDAY MAY 9 Reminders (POPS IN THE PARK)

As you know, Friday night (May 9th) is our spring concert at Harrison High School's " Pops in the Park" event.  The LMMS Jazz Ensemble, 7th Grade Combined Band, and 8th Grade Combined Bands will all perform. Students received notices last week regarding their report and performance times for the evening and they were to bring those home to you. Since Ms. Scott and I were out of town for the Disney trip, we haven't been able to answer any questions or field any calls. This email contains info regarding the night.

The concerts are at the field behind the LEFT SIDE of Harrison High School (band room side). All students must wear their LMMS BAND POLO, SHORTS, and SHOES. When students report for their concert, they must first take their case to the tennis courts, unpack their instrument, and bring it, their binder, and themselves to the performance area at the "report time" listed below. If you and your child are there early to enjoy the evening, they just need to leave their table and come to the tennis courts at that time. If you want to hold their case at your table, thats more than fine.

*PLEASE HAVE CASES LABELED WITH CHILD NAME! CASES LOOK ALIKE AND WE DONT WANT DURHAM AND LMMS STUDENTS TO GET MIXED UP!

TIMES                   Report Time            Perform time

JAZZ ENSEMBLE        6:45pm                  7:20pm

8th GRADE BAND      7:30pm                    8:00pm

7th GRADE BAND      8:15pm                   8:40pm

PLEASE BE ON TIME! IF YOU ARE DROPPING OF STUDENTS, PLEASE DROP THEM OFF 10 MINUTES BEFORE REPORT TIME!!!!

Below is an email from the parent who organizes this event. We look forward to seeing you there!!!

-MR.TRIMMER

Pops is the Park is almost here!

Remember – gates open at 5:00 and music will begin at 6:00. Tickets will be available at the will call table, but you can still by tickets at the gate. The concession stand will be selling combo meals and items ala carte if you didn't preorder. Please pick up all preordered meals by 7:30.

The entrance to the event is beside the band room. If you are looking at the school, the band room is around to the left. Parking is in the front parking lot, not on the field. You may drive back to drop off people or items, but please return to the front parking lot to park.

Even though the last forecast I saw was favorable, I wanted to give everyone an idea of how the rain plan will work so that things will run smoothly. In the unlikely event of rain, we will not begin music until 7 pm. Doors will be open at 6:15. Everyone will enter the front of the school and come down main street (or the other back main hall) turn and go down the 500 hallway in order to enter the small gym through the doors that are near the locker rooms. In the small gym we will have the will call tables and gate ticket sales. People will then exit into the gym lobby where we will have concessions and the cake raffle set up and enter the Presidential gym from the lobby. Students will exit the Presidential gym through the doors near the wrestling room and proceed down the wrestling hallway to get their instruments and to come back to the gym to perform. No one will be allowed to enter the gym lobby by the outside doors, just through the gyms.

thanks!

WINTER MUSIC CLINIC CHANGES!!!!!

Lost

Mountain

Middle School

Band

Jeremy Trimmer and Suzanne Scott- directors

CLINIC UPDATE!!

Parents- As you are aware; our annual “Winter Music Clinic” is this Saturday here at

Lost

Mountain

Middle School

. First, thank you for having this event on your home schedules from the beginning of the year as this is an event that is on the calendar that was given to you the first day of school in the handbook. We have very few absences and that is due to the combined planning efforts of everyone!

However, some things do slip through from time to time and there is a major traffic conflict on Saturday morning. Burnt

Hickory

Baptist

Church

is having their annual “Run for the Son” 10k and 5k road race Saturday as well. We were unaware they had the race planned and they were unaware that we had a school event at LMMS that day so we both planned our events. Luckily, some parents let us know about it early this week so that we could come up with some solutions to roads being closed in our area.

First, the race begins at 8:00am and the following roads are CLOSED on Saturday until 9:30am.  DUE WEST ROAD from Mars Hill to Acworth Due West, BURNT HICKORY ROAD from Acworth Due West to the Old Mountain Intersection, and OLD MOUNTAIN ROAD from the Burnt Hickory/Registry intersection to Due West Road by the church. The main issue is that

OLD MOUNTAIN RD.

is shut down (since that is the road Lost Mountain M.S. is on), but the church, police, and us have worked together to come up with a solution for the day.

The Winter Music Clinic time is being shifted back 30 minutes. The time is now 9:30am to 12:30pm. These 30 minutes will give us the opportunity to have the roads a little less crowded as more runners will be finished. Since the roads are still closed at 9:15am (when students need to start arriving at LMMS), we will have police assist parents in getting through the road block at the

OLD MOUNTAIN RD.

/ BURNT

HICKORY

INTERSECTION ONLY.  The only way into the school is through that blockade area! Police will let you through and you must enter the old entrance to the school only and drop off students in the bus lane entrance. You will then circle back around, go back up the hill to the old exit and take a left towards Due West. Once you get to Due West, you will be able to turn either left or right as you need to.

YOU CAN ONLY GET TO

OLD MOUNTAIN ROAD

AND LMMS AT THAT INTERSECTION BY BURNT

HICKORY

REGRISTRY SUBDIVISION!! YOU CAN ONLY USE THE OLD LMMS ENTRANCE AND YOU HAVE TO TURN LEFT OUT OF LMMS WHEN LEAVING! This is per the police department and the church so we must follow this plan! J

* If you coming from west of Mars Hill, you should take Hadaway to Burnt

Hickory

and take a right to the intersection where the police are. Remember, do not take the part of Burnt

Hickory

that goes by Dominion HS as it is closed as well. We all realize that this means some of you will have to make a large circular detour to get to that exact intersection. Since we have only one way into the school, you must plan for 1) the extra time to get to

Old Mountain Road

since several roads are closed that you might normally take and 2) the traffic at that intersection. Please plan on leaving your homes earlier than you would normally need to be here at 9:20. We have hired these guest clinicians for the bands and we must still begin at 9:30am.

We will end the rehearsal at 12:30pm and students can be pick-up then. By this time, all roads will be re-opened and you can use your normal route to LMMS.

We all apologize for this issue and I want to thank the parents who have assisted us with information regarding the run. Also, Mr. Barry Cook from the church has been wonderful in arranging the logistics for this and communicating with the church staff, police, and myself. THANK YOU!!!!

**** One further note, tuxedo shirts need to be purchased at stores such as Joann’s Fabrics, Michael’s Arts and Crafts, or other formal shops in Kennesaw. MW TUX is no longer providing tuxedo shirt purchases on walk-ins and must pre-measure and pre-order.  Also consider K&G Formal/Menswear in

Marietta

if you are having difficulty finding a shirt.

A map was provided in class regarding the class and affected roads.  Thanks again for your understanding and flexibility. We look forward to seeing you a little before 9:30am on Saturday here at Lost Mountain M.S.

-Jeremy Trimmer