9:00 - 9:30
Welcome, introductions, instructions, etc
Media release forms!
9:30 - 10:30
Instrument specific small groups
10:30 - 11:00
Instructor clinics
Group A: Carmean - Sight Reading - rm 505
Group B: Vigo - Improv 101 - rm 502
11:00 - 11:30
Instructor clinics
Group A: Vigo - Improv 101 - rm 502
Group B: Carmean - Sight Reading - rm 505
11:30 - 12:45
Instrument specific small groups
12:45 - 1:00
Flex Time
9:00 - 9:15
Flex Time
9:15 - 10:15
Instrument specific small groups
10:15 - 10:45
Instructor clinics
Group A: List - Music Technology - rm 502
Group B: Gwynn - Ear Training - auditorium
10:45 - 11:15
Instructor clinics
Group A: Gwynn - Ear Training - auditorium
Group B: List - Music Technology - rm 502
11:15 - 11:45
Instructor clinics
High School - McAllister - Audition Prep - 121
Middle School - with Instructors
Clarinets with Carmean
11:45 - 12:45
Small ensemble work
12:45 - 1:00
Flex Time
9:00 - 10:15
Instrument specific small groups
10:15 - 10:45
Instructor clinics
Group A: Fullerton - Interpreting Music: Notes to Emotions
Group B: Weer - Small Ensemble/Chamber Performance
10:45 - 11:15
Instructor clinics
Group A: Weer - Small Ensemble/Chamber Performance
Group B: Fullerton - Interpreting Music: Notes to Emotions
11:15 - 11:45
Instructor clinics
High School: With Instructors
Middle School: McAllister - Audition Prep - 121
Clarinets with Carmean
11:45 - 12:45
Small ensemble work
12:45 - 1:00
Flex Time
9:00 - 10:45
Instrument specific small groups
10:45 - 11:15
Music Trivia Kahoot
In teams with Laptops or phones if they have them.
11:15 - 12:00
Rehearse and setup for concert
12:00 - 1:00
Concert
small ensembles will play for parents/guardians/other family members/friends/neighbors/etc
Carmean - 505
Fullerton - 504
Gwynn - auditorium
McCallister - next to 121
Vigo - 503
Weer - 120
How to Play: Ready, Ready, Ready is the perfect game for getting your group into smaller groups.
The leader will call out “Ready, Ready, Ready….” and then say a number, “…4!”. After hearing this, the students must immediately form groups of 4.
Once they are in the group, give them a topic to discuss and conversation guidelines. An example is, “Share your name, section, grade, and your favorite movie”. After you’ve given enough time for each person to share, have students mix and mingle, then repeat! Call out “Ready, ready, ready….3!” (or whatever number you’d like) and continue with a new topic.
Script Sample:
“Hey everyone! Today we will be playing a game that will help you meet some new people. This game is called Ready, Ready, Ready. The way it works is, I’ll call out “ready, ready, ready” and a number. Once you hear that number, you need to get in a group with that many people as fast as you can. Once you are there, be ready to listen for some questions you need to answer in your group. “
“Ready, Ready, Ready…… 3!”
“Once you are in a group, everyone “stand on one foot” or “make a pose”, or “stick your tongue out” Something silly to refocus back on the director. “
“Now, each person needs to say… their name, their grade, and their favorite candy.”
“Alright everyone, mix and mingle, walk around!
Ready ready ready…….4!”
Four corners is a fast, easy-to-understand game that is perfect for band camp.
How to Play: The general premise is, students have to choose between 4 parts of a category (I recommend pre planning categories and questions). Once they reach their corners, I like playing mini-ready,ready,ready to get them in groups to further divide for a short conversation to get to know people in their corner.
Materials/Space Considerations: Like Ready, Ready, Ready, the game can get loud, so a microphone can help save your voice during facilitation. This game is better outdoors for volume control, but can be done inside.
Script Sample:
Soon I will be giving you a short list from a few categories and your job is to choose which one best applies to you and go to one of the four corners that goes with your choice. As I say the categories, I’ll be pointing to the corner it belongs to. The rules are simple, you MUST choose a corner, and there are no splitting corners.
Our first example will be….
Ice Cream!
In corner 1-Chocolate, corner 2- Strawberry, corner 3-Vanilla, corner 4-Anything But Ice Cream
(after everyone is in a corner) Within your corner, ready, ready, ready….2
With your partner, share the following….
Name, favorite flavor, which person (famous or not) would you want to eat your ice cream or dessert with?
Pets
Cats, Dogs, Fish, Exotic Animals
Name, tell your group about your pets or the pet you want to get in the future.
Beverages
Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Pepsi
Name, favorite movie snack to eat with your popcorn, what is the next movie you want to see in theaters?
Free Time
Sports, Crafting, Binge Watching, Shopping
Name, section, tell your group why you picked this corner over another corner. Tell your group what your second choice corner would have been.
Line the students up and have the student in the back tap out a phrase of a rhythm (on a card) on the back of the student in front of them. The tapping keeps passing forward and the student at the front of the line writes the rhythm on the whiteboard. It is fun to see how close they are to the original rhythm. You can play this as a team game with four or five students on each team and the first team to correctly repeat the rhythm wins the game.
First Day
Get to know the students you will be working with
Ability level range within the group
Here is the link to the spreadsheet with students signed up
Start considering small ensemble pieces