OBSERVATIONS 6th Grade Concert

The sixth grade concert held on Tuesday night, at Sacajawea Middle School was a huge success. The string orchestra did a great job. The students seemed very comfortable with their new teacher, Holly Sexton. Ms. Sexton had complete control over the students. The orchestra play extremely well for such young group of students. The choir was directors were Charlotte Colliver and Jacob Malczyk. The choir used small body movements and gestures to keep the audience engaged. One thing that I found very interesting was that there is at least one student in every group that always takes the spotlight by over doing the actions. This occurred during the concert when a boy in the front row was doing all the gestures just is little bit bigger than the other students. The band did a great job as well. They worked very well with Laurie Hickman. Mrs. Hickman did a excellent job for having shoulder surgery earlier this year. Being able to fight though the pain in order to be there for the students, is a great trait for a teacher to have. The band’s performance was very good. They followed Mrs. Hickman very well, and seemed very excited to play their pieces. The drummers were very organized, however, during the second piece I saw the timpani player get a little nervous when Mrs. Hickman did not tune the timpani for his piece. He raised his hand and Mrs. Hickman saw it and ran right over to him and tuned them. The student seemed relieved and the band then played the piece. The audience’s strong applause signaled that the concert was a huge success.