String Lessons  - How it works.

Welcome to our String Family!

Lessons occur for 25 minutes once in every 6 day cycle.  Your child will have an assignment sheet on which the week’s assignment is written.  The other side of this sheet has a daily practice log.  I ask the students to record how many minutes they practice for each lesson.  First year players are expected to practice 75 minutes/week.  Second year players expectation is 100 minutes/week.  Please initial the sheet each week to verify how many minutes your child practiced.  

Please help your child remember to bring his/her instrument and music book to school on the correct day.  Your child will be given a music folder in which to put the book and handouts.  If there is a snow day on the day of your child’s lesson, they will have the lesson the next day. 

If your child forgets their instrument, they should come to lessons anyway!  I may have an instrument they can borrow.  If he/she knows they cannot come to a lesson, please let me know ahead of time.

If you did not purchase a music stand, your child should have a place to set the book that is at eye level while playing. I have a few extra folding music stands so please ask if you need one.

The instrument should not be kept in very cold or hot areas.  Occasionally, a string will break.  It can be replaced at a music store, or I may have an extra at school to replace it.  If the store cannot repair an instrument immediately, as for a “loaner” instrument.