With much anticipated, we eagerly decided to begin our choir year with lots of time on our hands to explore our new ideas: We are excited to include more of the traditions of our Catholic heritage this year by including chant and more sacred motets in our repertoire, as well providing children with the challenge (and the resulting benefits) of singing from music for the first time, instead of just memorizing by rote. Singing in two or three parts is also a goal of ours, but depends on the children and how capable they are of holding their own musical line--however, this is a learnable skill, so even if we can't do it initially, it's not to say that it will never happen!
We had initially planned for a Day Camp of 4 hours, including a light snack, on the morning of Saturday, September 29 from 9:00am-1:00pm. However, we were recently made aware that there is a conflicting homeschool event that same morning, and we don't want to exclude homeschoolers if we can help it! We are exploring the idea of postponing the start of choir until the next week: Saturday, October 6. This would also grant us more flexibility with time...we could do either 9:00am-1:00pm again, OR, pending approval from Holy Family, the camp could go from 1:00pm-4:30, and we could sing some of our new pieces at the 5pm Mass. (In this case, we would make sure that snack would fall well before Mass to not interfere with the Eucharistic Fast)
What's your preference:
As before, if you could leave your family name, number of children, and your day/time preference in the comments, we would appreciate it. Thanks!
We had initially planned for a Day Camp of 4 hours, including a light snack, on the morning of Saturday, September 29 from 9:00am-1:00pm. However, we were recently made aware that there is a conflicting homeschool event that same morning, and we don't want to exclude homeschoolers if we can help it! We are exploring the idea of postponing the start of choir until the next week: Saturday, October 6. This would also grant us more flexibility with time...we could do either 9:00am-1:00pm again, OR, pending approval from Holy Family, the camp could go from 1:00pm-4:30, and we could sing some of our new pieces at the 5pm Mass. (In this case, we would make sure that snack would fall well before Mass to not interfere with the Eucharistic Fast)
What's your preference:
- September 29, 9:00am-1:00pm
- October 6, 9:00am-1:00pm
- October 6, 1:00pm-4:30pm with a possible 5pm Mass
As before, if you could leave your family name, number of children, and your day/time preference in the comments, we would appreciate it. Thanks!
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