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- Practice Schedule Highlights
- Reminder – All First-day-of-school SIGNED forms are due Friday, August 28th
- First Rally of the year – Friday
- Saturday practice and Ice and Water
- FIELD SHOW SHIRTS
- ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS FOR SALE
- Going Green aGain
- Garage Sale August 29th
- Locker assignments and school instrument rentals
- Looking for a music department calendar?
- The Rules
- Looking for your Marching Band Manual?
- Band Room Availability
Practice Schedule Highlights
Full Marching Band means EVERYONE including percussion and colorguard.
Bring EQUIPMENT/INSTRUMENTS, LANYARDS WITH COORDINATE SHEETS, WATER BOTTLES FULL OF WATER, SUNSCREEN, AND HAT
Wednesday, August 26th
5:30-8:30 pm Full marching band at Homestead
Saturday, August 29th
8:30-4 pm Full marching band at Homestead
Wednesday, September 3rd
5:30-8:30 pm Full marching band at Homestead
No practice during Labor Day weekend!
Reminder – All First-day-of-school SIGNED forms are due Friday, August 28th
Now that you have survived the first couple of days of school, please get your signed forms back to Mrs. Feltman’s mail box by Friday, August 28th.
First Rally of the year – Friday
Band members wear your green band shirts!! After second period, go to the band room, get your instrument and meet in the gym.
Saturday practice and Ice and Water
Thank you to Barb Wipfler and Martha Branch and daughter for helping with ice and water on Saturday! The students really appreciate having those igloos with cool water available after lunch, so they can refill their water bottles. Last year, I would find long lines of students waiting to refill water bottles at every available water fountain, a very slow and tedious waste of down time, and not everyone could get them filled before having to get on the field for practice.
I would appreciate help again for the August 29th practice. I don’t have a chance to leave campus during lunch time and it would be a tremendous help if someone could buy 3 20-pound bags of ice and deliver it to the band room at 12 pm Saturday, so that we can prepare the igloos.
It would also be nice to have a couple of people to haul the igloos to our water source, fill up the 6 igloos, and haul them back to the field. The whole process might take about a half hour.
Do I have any takers? Please contact me at vfeltman@pacbell.net if you can help or have questions.
FIELD SHOW SHIRTS
Some of the new families have asked how the field show shirts differ from the green pep shirts. Each year we print commemorative shirts and sweatshirts reflecting the season's show theme, so the design changes each year. They help promote excitement and awareness for the field show and help identify Homestead marchers (when not in uniform) and volunteers at events, since other schools might have similar pep clothes. The back of the shirt order form has more information about how and when the various clothing items are worn. (The form is online at http://homestead.schoolloop.com/2009tshirts) Last but not least, the field show shirts are great keepsakes!
PICK UP ORDERS: If you weren't able to pick up your order at the potluck, please contact Cathy Lu (see below for how to reach her).
EXCHANGES: If you think we might have accidentally given you something other than what you thought you ordered (mistakes do happen), or if you want to exchange for a different size or style, please contact Cathy Lu ASAP. Please do not wear or wash the shirt or sweatshirt you are exchanging! We'll need to order your replacement if we don't have what you want in stock.
NEXT ORDER: If you haven't yet ordered and would like to, you may still turn in your order form for the second batch. Remember it will be getting cold and sweatshirts will be handy if you didn't order any! Download the form from the Boosters website at http://homestead.schoolloop.com/2009tshirts and drop it in Mrs. Feltman's box in Mr. Burn's office with your payment by Wed., Sept. 2nd.
PURCHASING EXTRAS: There will be a limited number of extras available for purchase some time next week (without having to turn in an order form). Contact Cathy Lu to see if we have what you want in stock.
CONTACT: For questions, exchanges, or picking up orders, please contact Cathy Lu at 650/968-1403 or mail@cathylu.com.
ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS FOR SALE
This year the entertainment books are $30. If music boosters can sell over 500 books our profit will be $15 per book with one half going into the general fund and the other half into your student's escrip account (our profit is only $12 if we sell between 100 - 499 books). Some of the highlights I saw in the book are the $20 bonus card on the front of each book as well as $20 of savings at Safeway and 12 AMC movie tickets for only $7.50 redeemable right at the movie theater. I will be selling the books at the beginning and end of Wednesday and Saturday practices starting in September. You can also call or e-mail me for purchase. If you want to encourage your student to raise some of their "own" money you can have some books to sell to your neighbors and family. If you have co-workers who made you buy cookies, popcorn, or wrapping paper, take some books to sell at work. Thanks for supporting our fundraising efforts
Kathy Ahearn H 408-245-2558 e-mail ahearn4@comcast.net
Going Green aGain
Just a reminder that the Guard is continuing its recycling program this season. Bags of recyclables can be left by the tree outside the band room every Wednesday evening for pickup after 9:00 P.M. If you would like to help with this fundraiser, please contact Geoff Gongwer at gsgongwer@hotmail.com.
And for those of you still on the fence about donating, even if you're not sure that your donation is large enough to help, consider this: If each band family brought even 10 containers each week, over the course of the season we would be raising over $1,500! So let's all pitch in, in our efforts to Go Green! Thank you!
Some of the color guard families are getting together to have a garage sale at the Pearson's house, 1401 S. Mary Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 (corner of Mary and Cascade) this Saturday, August 29. If you (or someone you know) have items that you are thinking of donating to a good cause, we would love to have your donations. Please contact Beth Pearson at (408) 218 - 9959 or bpearson77@yahoo.com to arrange a drop off time. Thanks!
Locker assignments and school instrument rentals – please contact Mrs. Feltman
Blank forms can be found in the document sorter standing next to Mr. Burn’s office. Please have your parent sign the form, then drop it off in Mrs. Feltman’s mail box located in Mr. Burn’s office. I will email your locker combination to you. Please be patient… there are hundreds of you, and one of me! You can leave your instrument in your unlocked locker until I send you the combination.
Looking for a music department calendar?
We still have some for sale, $15 each.
Please contact Vicki Feltman at vfeltman@pacbell.net.
The Rules
We want to start the year off on the right foot, so….
Please remember, no food, no gum, no drinks (except water), in the music building. Mrs. Feltman does not care to clean up spilled soda on the carpet, from the top of the instrument lockers, or in back of doors, where cups are hidden. She also doesn’t care to clean up mounds of garbage stacked on top of the small garbage cans inside. LEAVE YOUR GARBAGE OUTSIDE, in the large garbage cans put there for your use! And did I mention the rats and cockroaches I’ve found in and around the building, happily enjoying the food you’ve left for them?
Tuba players, thank you for putting your sousaphones back in your lockers. There isn’t enough floor space for anyone to leave their instruments out, especially when 140 chairs need to be set up for rehearsal.
Once everyone gets their locker assignments, the same holds true in the instrument locker room. If you have a locker, use it! Having 180 pairs of feet tromping on your instrument won’t help you sound any better.
Percussion, please remember to SHUT THE OUTSIDE DOORS when you leave the percussion studio. It is quite easy for someone to walk in and take things without anyone seeing them, since everyone is either in the band room or out on the field.
Practice rooms are for PRACTICING, not for eating lunch (see first rule above), playing cards, having a meeting. And raising the stands to block the windows in the practice rooms will definitely call attention to you, too.
Looking for your Marching Band Manual?
If you didn’t pick it up during the pot luck, then it’s still sitting in the band room.
Please contact Vicki Feltman at vfeltman@pacbell.net.
Band Room Availability
Now that the school year has started, the band room will be open after school until 6 pm on the following days:
Monday-Friday, August 31st – September 4th
Tuesday-Thursday, September 8th – 10th
Monday-Friday, September14th-18th
Monday-Thursday, September 21st – 24th
Monday-Friday, September 28th – October 2nd
