Upcoming Band Concert

Last year, the band concerts were mainly a fun way to showcase our newly formed musical interest. In our seventh grade year, about half the band has dropped out, and we have a cropped version of last year's inflated band. The winter band concert is mainly just an update on our progress in band. We're doing three pieces where easy rhythms collide to create put together, holiday melodies.

In last year's concert, we had not yet been assigned chairs, and many had yet to discover their talents for their instruments and passion for music. However, it was around the time that I, for example, had started working hard and really practicing, and had started to evolve as a young musician. Even though I was within the top three trumpeters in my band class, which would make me at least twelfth chair in the concert. I was shoved to about the eighteenth chair or so, and so were many other first chair potentials. People who barely knew the instrument and rarely practiced were exhibited as the stereotypical sixth grade first chair, but had trouble squeaking second part out of their instruments. The same happened at the spring concert, and it shouldn't happen this year, as we have been assigned chairs based on ability and development as a musician.

Also, the concert music we played for our spring concert last year challenged our counting skills and our instrumentation. I'm hoping that this year, we'll start working on pieces with challenging rhythms and notes so that our band can reach it's full potential by spring. I think our musical foundations are still viable to be built, and it's important that early development is fully optimized.

Random Ballet Tips

Hi! These tips are a collection of tips from my friends, dance teachers, and, me!
These tips might work for you dancers or not, it just depends your preferences!(Hopefully some dancers besides Sarah and Silly still read iStudents.)

• Use paper towels instead of gel pads in your pointe shoes! They mold to your feet and apparently are really comfortable and they toughen up your toes!(I have not tried this.)
• Do your pointe shoes always fall off your heels? Put water on the heel of your tights!
• Do you hate having a flubby tummy in your leotard? Pull your tights up to your ribcage.(I personally detest this, because my tights end up falling back down to my waist and then I look funny;))
• Wear a cute headband so that your hair doesn't fall in your face.
• Pointe shoes are good for kicking obnoxious nutcrackers in the shins.
• Never eat 2 slices of pizza, a cookie, a pepsi, and a slushie before going to dance class. I have tried this and it is not fun.
• Bobby pins are good for throwing at obnoxious nutcrackers.
• Annoy your fellow dancers about eating something besides salad for a change!
• Never try to jump straight onto pointe. This hurts like crap.

Ok, so this has turned into sort of a flip list, but I had fun making it!

Silly Via's Video

http://www.youtube.com/user/sillychick1077

Monday Update: the Revival Begins

Hey, everyone! I am really sad to see iStudent wither away like this, so I am making it my OFFICIAL mission to revive iStudents, one page at a time! Here are some of my ideas to help bring iStudents PotA page back to life again!

-Support Silly's videos! Did you see her one about the Sun Halo in Florida? Ah-mazing! If you have a YouTube account of your own, send us your videos!

-Have a scanner? Did something amazing in Art Class? Just dying to show everyone? Send it to us! Anything from photography to 3D stuff is great!

-You could review stuff, too! A new album by your favorite artist came out? Recommend songs for us! Create playlists for us to put on our need-to-get list for iTunes!

Come on, people! We jsut added this page! Let's try to bring iStudents back to life!