{"id":1942,"date":"2014-08-29T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T01:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2014-08-29T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T01:18:42","slug":"beginning-band-begins-82614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"Beginning Band begins, 8\/26\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We both have to get going early today. I\u2019m going with Judy to school to help with a 6<sup>th<\/sup> grade instrumental music project. They are beginning a 12-week unit (two classes per week, 90 minutes per class) where they receive instructions on playing a band instrument. Since I\u2019m available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, it made sense for me to help Judy out. The school owns some instruments, so Judy made the initial instrument assignments and we split into a brass class (3 trumpets and 2 trombones) and a woodwind class (3 clarinets, four flutes, and 5 saxes). Scott Lindner, the high school music teacher is teaching the brass class, and Judy and I are teaching the woodwind class.<\/p>\n<p>The students worked very hard and made some nice progress by the end of class. The brass joined us for the last 10 minutes, and we performed for each other. This should be a lot of fun. It\u2019s an introductory class, and after this series of classes, the students will move to art for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> trimester, and then PE for the last trimester. It\u2019s not a great way to develop a band program as I know it, but for me, it\u2019s nice to get back to teaching something I know and understand.<\/p>\n<p>After class, I walked over to the nearby State Electric Grid office and paid to \u201cload up\u201d our apartment meter.\u00a0\u00a0 The clerk inserts the \u201celectric card\u201d into a computer, we pay whatever amount we want, and when I get home, the meter at the apartment shows the additional amount has been added. This can also be done at a bank near UHN, but this office is close to BISS. Next, I stopped at the nearby local Chinese restaurant for lunch. They have great green beans. After lunch, I taxi to BHSFIC for an afternoon faculty meeting. We finish around 3:00 pm. I\u2019m still trying to find the cabinet where I stored music and some of my teaching supplies. It\u2019s somewhere in the school, but the facilities manager, Edward, assures me he\u2019ll find it.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the apartment, I crash on the couch. I actually had to do some teaching today, and it wore me out. Judy joins some of her friends at Pete\u2019s Tex-Mex after school to unwind a little. When she gets home, we talk over the class plan for tomorrow, and \u201chit the sack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We both have to get going early today. I\u2019m going with Judy to school to help with a 6th grade instrumental music project. They are beginning a 12-week unit (two classes per week, 90 minutes per class) where they receive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=1942\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}