Shuttle

Kind of a yucky day outside.  No, scratch that... it was very yucky out, not just kind of yucky.  By afternoon the rain stopped, but it was still gross enough that we needed to shuttle kids over to church for practice.  That is always an undertaking.  Which kids go in which car? How many trips does each teacher need to take? Do we let the kids cram in the back? 


We also added the 5th grade bells to the one song they accompany the choir on.  They did pretty good! One or two of them rushed their notes and didn't hold as long as they should've, but we'll iron that out the rest of this week.  The 6-7th grade bell choir didn't go as well.  The 5th graders use some of the same bells as the older grades, so my kiddos were scrambling to find their books and bells while the rest of the kids waited around for us to play.  Then I realized I had left my director book at school.  So I had no music to look at.  It went okay considering how little we've practiced the songs.  We have practice on our own tomorrow afternoon (before the rest of the school comes over), so we can iron out some of the kinks tomorrow.  I'm sure we'll sound fine when the concert rolls around.  The first day practicing is always a little rough.