Eagle Ridge Middle School


800 Fruta Rd., NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124
Phone: (505) 892-6630
Fax: (505) 892-6909
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This page updated as of: 3/1/10
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Karen Ginther

kginther@rrps.net

892-6630 ext. 323

 

Please scroll down for class assignments and newsletters

 

Barrage is performing at Cibola High School on March 30th!

Click on the violin for details!

 

ERMS Orchestras and Exploratory Have a Written Report due by March 10th.  This due date has been extended. 

 

 

Report Packet (click on the picture to view)

 

Print Orchestra Practice Sheets

 

 (ERMS students-Due each Monday)

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Parent Letter

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Practice Template

 

Printable Sheet Music

 

Print a Handbook!

 

 

Orchestra Handbook violin

Exploratory Music treble clef

Elementary Orchestra Handbook   

 

 

ERMS Orchestras

Students attending field trips must be earning a "C" orhigher in all core and related arts classes. 

Chaperones are needed for the Tueday, March 9th trip to Cibola HS (Large Group Festival).  A $10 fee will be charged for bus expenses and lunch at the Golden Corral.

A professional photographer will take two pictures of our group the festival event-  a serious portrait and a silly portrait.  Pictures are 8x12".  Pictures will be available to order for $15 each at the festival.  If 20 studentsor more wish to pre-order photos, the price goes down to $10 each.  Information will be available at our March 4th concert.

 

Elementary Orchestra

Encourage your child to practice at home every day!  Middle School registration forms are coming!  Be sure to sign up for orchestra.  Orchestra is scheduled as a regular school day class at the secondary schools. 

Hummingbird has tentatively been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 27th.  Click on the school bus for scheduling details.

    

 

 

RRPS Orchestra Camp June 14-18

 

 

Our annual middle school camp will take place June 14-18 at Eagle Ridge Middle School. Two half-day sessions will be offered, Introduction to Orchestra and Advanced Orchestra. 

 

A performance will be given by students at the Haynes Park Pavillion (across from Intel) at 6:30 PM on Friday the 18th.We have access to the stage and barbeque facilities!  In the event of bad weather, we will move the performance to an indoor school facility.

Private Lessons

 

Summer is a great time to begin private lessons!  See the list on the right for teachers in our area!


Exploratory Music

Students just completed a unit on Beethoven and his music.  We will also study the composers Bach and Brahms.

Students are exploring the difference between noise and music.  They will continue to study different elements of a musical composition and will have a final project in May which requires them to compose a sound story.

 

Mark Wood is coming back May 10-11, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look Mom!! We're Famous

 

click here to see the front page of Saturday, May 9 2009Albuquerque Journal....

Orchestra Rocks Article

 


Important Information!

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February

For more details about these events, see the lower left concert and rehearsal schedule.

Thursday, March 4

Pre-Festival Dinner/Concert

with special guests, RRPS Elementary Orchestra students

"Breakfast" Burrito Dinner 5:45-6:45 in the ERMS Caf

$6 per ticket

Concert in the ERMS Gym at 7:00 PM

Tuesday, March 9th

Large Group Festival Performances

ERMS orchestras

8:45-4:45 PM

Performances at Cibola HS

Lunch at Golden Corral

$10 fee per student for bus and lunch fees

Chaperones needed!

 

MOVIE MONDAY

Movie Monday postponed until 4th Quarter.

Students will need to complete a written packet for credit.

 

 

 

 

sabre violin INTERNET LINKS stingray violin

DVD Order Form for Mark Wood Concert

Rio Rancho Orchestra Camp

Hummingbird Music Camp

Electrify Your Strings

Wood Violins

Private Instructors

Robertson and Sons Violin Shop

Southwest Strings

Shar Products Company

Albuquerque Youth Symphony

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra

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Concerts and Rehearsals :

 

 

**  All rehearsals and concerts are graded events for ERMS members! **

Second Semester

Week of January 11th

Elementary Classes Resume

 

Wednesday, February 3rd

Hummingbird Clinic, Elementary

Field Trip 8:30 AM-6:00 PM.  Meet at ERMS by 8:15

 

Thursday, February 25th   

Hummingbird Clinic, ERMS

Field Trip 9:00 AM-6:00 PM/ Hummingbird Music Camp

Thursday, March 4th

Pre-Festival Concert, Elementary, ERMS and MVMS Orchestras

Dinner at 5:45 PM in ERMS Cafeteria

Students in seats in the gym by 6:30 PM

Concert begins at 7:00 PM/ERMS Gym

 

Tuesday, March 9th

Large Group Orchestra Festival, All APS and RRPS Advanced Mid-School Orchestras (All ERMS Orchestra Students will Participate)

Field Trip

Bus departs for Cibola HS at 8:45 AM.  ERMS performs at 11:00 AM. We travel to Golden Corral at 11:45.  We will return to CHS by 1:30 to attend other performances.

Saturday, April 24th

Solo and Ensemble Festival, Select orchestra  students

Exact performance times and place TBA

Monday, May 10th-Tuesday, May 11th

Mark Wood Clinic and Concert

Clinics on Monday, Clinics and concert Tuesday

Rock and Alternative Music!

A Solo and Ensemble concert may be scheduled before the end of the school year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework/Materials used in class:

 

Practice Journals (Orchestra Students):

It is required that each orchestra student practice his/her assignments at home. Middle school students should practice at least 20 minutes daily! Students will receive a practice assignment sheet each Monday. Students may need to copy some musical notation and/or define terms and will be expected to journal their daily practice on a template.

Resources for Orchestras and Exploratory Music

Students will receive the following materials:

Beginner Orchestra

Essential Elements Book I (with CD/DVD)

Binders- All students will receive a one-inch binder. This binder serves as a data folder and textbook. It contains warm-ups/scales, sheet music, returned class work, progress reports, and our handbook.

Advanced

Binders- All students will receive a one-inch binder. This binder serves as a data folder and textbook. It contains warm-ups/scales, sheet music, returned class work, progress reports, and our handbook.

Study CD (music to be performed/examples of professional performances)

*Notation/Sound files are e-mailed home occasionally to those students who have internet access.

Exploratory

Binders- All students will receive a one-inch binder. This binder serves as a data folder and textbook.

Units of Study- Each semester will be divided in two parts:

Part I- "Music From the Inside Out"

This is a workshop curriculum. Students will discover how music impacts their lives, what makes music different from noise, how musicians work together to create art, and will create their own composition by the end of the first quarter.

Short interviews with musicians from the Philidelphia Orchestra will be viewed at various points during this section. Students will journal and chart their ideas.

Part II- Observations of Musical Performances

Students will attend and/or experience through media various musical performances and will learn to compare and contrast these works (this is a continuation of what we will have learned during the previous quarter). Students will also study various classic and modern musicians and composers.
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