This coming school year, I am hoping to schedule a "music" field trip for five grades. Last year, although I had some good ideas, I only sent two grades out of the school!
So this year, I am sending third grade to the Air Force Band concert in December, the fourth grade to Baltimore to hear the BSO's Beethoven concert (I SO want to go on this field trip!) and the sixth grade to Baltimore to hear the BSO's debut of Lemony Snicket's "The Composer is Dead." (yeah, sign me up for this one too!)
The problem with these trips is that I feel that either I or the other music teacher at my school should be automatically a chaperone for them since we teach the activities that surround the concert. However, although I convinced our administration to allow one person to go last year, I am not sure that I will be successful again this year. We'll see. I am fully prepared to invest personal days in these trips.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. -Samuel Butler (1612-80), English poet, author
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