4-5th+Graders'+Recorder+Letter

  DATE: August 25, 2008 FROM: Mrs. Downes, Music Teacher  Students learn to read music notation better when they play an instrument. This year we will continue to play recorders during 4th and 5th grade music classes. Research shows that learning to play an instrument may increase your child’s intelligence. __Each student will have his/her own personal recorder__. Recorders may be left in the music classroom throughout the school year, but to get the most out of playing an instrument, your child should practice at home. It is your child’s responsibility to __bring the recorder to music class each week__**. If a student repeatedly forgets to have a recorder for music class, the music performance grade may either be an “N” or a “U”.**  Most fifth graders already have a recorder from last year. For those students who need to buy one, Buchanan’s Music on Industrial Drive sells recorders for @ $3.50. In addition, **I will accept orders for the Peripole-Angel brand recorders through Friday, September 5, 2008** (this is the only chance that students will have to buy Peripole recorders this year). These recorders have a retail price of over ten dollars, but students may buy them through the school for only $5.00 (this includes tax and shipping and handling charges; shipping costs have increased from last year). Both recorders have a plastic case, but the Peripole recorders also have a neck hanger and are easier to play. **If your child would like to buy a Peripole recorder, you must fill out the form below and put the cash money in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and classroom teacher’s name neatly printed on the outside**. I will receipt each recorder. **__No checks will be accepted.__** We will start using our recorders when the Peripole recorders come in (which is usually two weeks after the order is placed) -- about September 25. Students who bring recorders to school before September 25 may leave them in the designated boxes in the music room so that they will have them when recorder classroom instruction begins in late September. It is very important for students to have their names on both the recorder and its case (use a permanent marker, or put tape on the recorder and write the student’s name on it). If you are unable to afford a recorder at this time, **you must sign below and have your child return it to me**, and your child will receive a recorder from the school. Every 4th and 5th grader will have a recorder to play. Save the top of this letter for your information. -Cut here If ordering a recorder from school, please complete the appropriate form below and enclose it and the money in an envelope with written identification on the outside of the envelope. 
 * TO: Parents of 4th & 5th Graders __RE: Recorders__  **
 * // It is my child’s responsibility to practice at home and __bring the recorder to music class each week__. If my child repeatedly forgets to have a recorder for music class, I understand that the music performance grade may either be an “N” or a “U”. //**