Done thinking about band for awhile

The last thing I want to do right now is blog about my job, 'cuz I have had my last students til a week from Monday!! Wahoo!! (Not that I don't love them dearly, but we can all use a break from time to time.)

Tonight I get to do Grown-Up Band, and I couldn't be more excited. What an antidote to rowdy kids, the pressure of concerts.

The teenage boys in my alternative performance class (loud rock is what they do) are sitting with their head in their hands because they think they didn't do well because their performance was "sprung" on them. If you consider four weeks' notice springing.

I could just kick their arrogant little butts, but I have to remain professional.

I told them four weeks ago they would play the last day of the quarter for the middle-high students. They probably thought I was kidding. I wasn't kidding two days ago when they were sitting around moaning about not being ready and I said, you guys have to step it up. Maybe it was because I wasn't there for their class yesterday, when I was going to have them move equipment. Maybe because they're just, well, not wanting to ruin their egos with a less than perfect performance.

And it didn't help that the audience was rude and one of the girls in the class with the guys on stage was talking and laughing loudly to her friends the whole time.

Earlier in the day I had my sixth graders perform. They did awesome on their little in-class concert. The room was packed. All the fifth graders came plus administrators and teachers and a bonus of one eighth grade class. It was so cool to have everyone in here for that.

Yesterday right before their class I had to take my 3-year-old home with a fever. His teacher showed up with him to my room and the little boss didn't look very happy. So I left the class in the dubious hands of the students' assistant football coach, who has a rather different relationship with the kids than I do. The room was erupting in high-decibel yelling and drumming and bleating when I left. My poor miha's little face was so worried about that.

Today I got my baton out and everything in honor of their concert. And they did well, all except for the surprise ending of Bingo. It seemed to be a surprise to most of the band members.

Anyway, tonight my husband and I are going to do the Hokey-Pokey with the cars and the kids in town so I can be on time to Grown-up Band. My assistant in the middle-high school class laughed when I told her about Grown-up Band, and she didn't even need an explanation.

Saturday I'm taking some of the middle-high bands students to our local college football game as a reward for doing everything they were supposed to do at our home game last weekend.

As if I haven't had enough!