Band vs Choir Tuesday, May 21 from 3:45 – 4:30 p.m. Pick up students in teacher parking lot.

What a fun night we had on Saturday. Thank you to all parents who volunteered to help and to those who donated food money! Our students are having a wonderful time looking at photos provided by Amber Byers and Carrie Norris! Here are the links to see these great photos!

Here: https://carrienorrisphotography.pixieset.com/nmschoirfinalblast2024/

And here!

2024 Final Blastflickr.com

Don’t forget to turn in your DVD order by Friday. Cost is $18 and they will be delivered before school lets out!

NMS Final Blast Choir Blu-ray’s ($18)/DVD’s ($18.00)

Student Name __________________________

Grade _____

What is the number of DVD’s  you would like to order?  _____

          Number of Blu-ray’s? _____

Payment  in cash ____  or check #  _________

These DVD’s will be sent home before the end of the year!

We have 1 chaperone to cover 72 kids in 7^th grade for the first show and zero to cover these kids for the 2^nd show.  We also need 1 chaperone per show for 8^th and 7th.  This is a must.  I can’t leave them for one person to watch over all of them.  Please help.

T-shirt money was due today. Quite a few parents have not sent theirs in. Please take care of that if you can. Tickets are selling fast on their first day. Additional tickets may be old at the box office Sat/ but I can’t promise that their will be any. Please get those tickets in advance.

As of today we have very few volunteers. I hate to be a pest with this, but we can’t run the show without chaperones. We need them for dress rehearsal Saturday, and show 1 and show 2. You’re going to be there anyway. Might as well lend a hand. You get to watch half the show from the stage point of view and the last half out in the audience. Pleeeze is all I can say at this point.

There is no one volunteered as 7th grade phone mom. Would anyone care to make the calls? I will send the info and numbers home with your child Tuesday. Just send me an email: armingtonj@mcsin-k12.org! Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to sign up. WE really appreciate it!!

Mrs. Armington

Some of you don’t have your listening ears on! 🙂 It’s time to sign up for your volunteer slots) You’re almost there but you can’t give up on us yet! We have very few parents signed up. I’m hoping that this “gentle” reminder will help you go to nmschoir.org and the sign up genius tab to sign up! Hold on to your hat, here is what we are missing per grade:

6th grade: 3 more Dress Rehearsal Chaperones for next Thursday, 4 Ushers for show 1 and 4 Ushers for show 2, Concert 1 Chaperone 1, Concert 2 Chaperone 2, Dinner Crew 3.

7th Grade: Dress Rehearsal Chaperones for next Thursday -2, Dress Rehearsal Phone Mom, 1, Concert Phone mom – 1, Water for dinner 4, Usher show 1 – 4, Usher show 2-4, Concert 1 Chaperone 2, Concert 2 Chaperone 3!!!!! Dinner Crew 5!!!

8th Grade is winning! They need Usher show 1 -4, Usher Show 2 -2, Concert 2 Chaperones -3!!!!!, Dinner Crew 5.

BTW chaperoning the Final Blast is the easiest because you only watch over the kids the first half of the show and then you get to pop in the auditorium for free and watch the big Finale Medley.

Scroll down and look at the parent letter I posted to see descriptions of each volunteer.

2ndly, your t shirt money ($10) is coming in but we’d really like most of it collected by Friday so that it doesn’t run in to ticket money on Monday. Food donations are a bit low for this time of the year. Please donate what you can to feed our hungry lambs.

Tickets go on sale on Monday (May 6th)! They are $3 each. We have the wrong date on them, sorry that’s my fault. The Concert is next Saturday (March 11th) at 4:30 and 7 p.m.

O.k. that’s all for now! Now please get on signup genius and lend a hand…or both hands…or your husband/wive’s hand…grandma’s…never mind you get the picture!

1. Chaperones for Final Blast and it’s dress rehearsal are crucial to the success of our program. We can’t have students on their own. Please please, please consider filling a chap position. Also you will need to go to this site to fill out a short background check form: https://apps.raptortech.com/Apply/NTc1OTplbi1VUw==
2. We currently need volunteers in just aabout every area of every grade. Our phone moms need to make reminder calls with specific information by next Wed. However, right now there is no one to call. I know many of you have volunteered this year but this last concert needs you to lend a hand. Please sign up today so that we can hand out the information to our phone moms.
3. We are sill looking for costumes from a different country for the song “It’s a Small World.” (14)
4. We are collecting money ($10) for t shirts now. Please send in the payment as soon as you can.
5. We are also collecting dinner donation money now!
6. Finally we want you to know that this show will have a DISNEY theme throughout. It will be so fun for children. I’m sure we will be hearing singing from the audience. Invite as many little ones as you can! (You may be singing too!!!)

Thanks for supporting us! We can do so many cool things with your help!!

If you have a conflict with the Final Blast we will need the conflict form signed and returned by Friday, May 26.

A parent letter will be sent home tomorrow. Here is your advanced copy.

Just in case you missed it, we had an amazing day this past Saturday! 6th Grade started the day off with a spectacular start receiving a Gold Rating in the Group III Division! 7th Grade followed soon after with their own fantastic performance receiving their own Gold Rating in the Group II Division (the only group participating at that level)! Finally 8th Grade, not to be outdone by the other grades, stepped up as the only choir participating in the Group I Division and absolutely knocked it out of the park receiving, you guessed it, a Gold Rating for their performance!!

And that wasn’t all! Both the 7th Grade and 8th Grade Bands performed soon after with both groups receiving Gold Ratings, with the 8th Grade receiving the “With Distinction” award for the quality of their performance!!

But wait! There’s still more! The High School show choirs also took to the stage at their final competition performances at the Noblesville’s Indiana Show Choir Championships with both groups receiving Best Vocals, Best Visuals, and Best Band, as well being named Grand Champions in each of their respective divisions! A perfect sweep!!

An absolutely great day for the Northridge Music Department in totality! A huge thank you to the numerous parent volunteers who stepped in to help out in various capacities throughout the day! A special thank you to Mrs. Runions, Mrs. Byers, and Mr. Swathwood for capturing some wonderful snapshots of the day. Photo albums for each of the grades can be found here:

(6th Grade ISSMA Photos) (7th Grade ISSMA Photos) (8th Grade ISSMA Photos)

Finally, just in case you weren’t able to come out and see the groups in person on Saturday, here are some videos of the kids performances for your viewing pleasure!

(6th Grade ISSMA Performance Video) (8th Grade ISSMA 2024 Performance Video)

(*Of note, our 7th Grade performance recording had an issue, so if you by chance were there and have a good recording of the performance please feel more than free to send it in to Mr. Norwood or Mrs. Armington so we can share it out as well!)

An awesome weekend full of awesome and musically talented kids! It’s a great time to be part of the Northridge Music Programs!!

Below you will find a map of Penn and an extra letter with all of the times for Saturday’s trip. I will be sending all of this home tomorrow (Wednesday). But in case it doesn’t make it to you I wanted to reach you on our blog. See you Saturday!