This week was interesting week for me. It is really starting to hit me that I have to leave my students and go to a new placement soon. I am really going to miss the group of students that I have now. They are a great bunch of kids who are very excited about music.
I had my third observation this week and I actually had real sheet music to work with the band on, not just exercises out of their method book. I have been working with the symphonic band on a piece of music for Veterans Day, but I haven't had a chance to work with the concert band on music, we have just been working out of the book. The band started Christmas music, it seems a bit early but it really isn't a lot of time between now and Christmas to get the music ready, not with the random days off and breaks, and only meeting 4 times a week. It really stinks that I am helping the students with this concert music that I don't get to experience because of my placement change. I think that I am missing out on a major part of being a music teacher by missing the concert. Especially because I want to teach band.
I am going into my last week of student teaching at Manhattan Junior High, I can't believe how fast 8 weeks went by.
I know that we have had student teachers in the past who did go back to their first placements for the concert that they had helped students prepare for. You might ask about that.
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