Ms. Petergal’s Class

Weekly Recorder Journal Assessment

 

Dear Students,

 

     Playing recorder is a fun and rewarding experience which I hope you enjoy. To do your very best you should practice 10 minutes a day, five days a week. If you do, you will quickly learn a lot of songs and learn a lot about music.

     Weekly recorder journals are due on the first music class each week. The journal must be written in a standard size notebook used exclusively for music and entries must be in paragraph form.

     Your journal entries must include information on what you practiced, amount of time practiced, and some information about your musical progress. Any personal comments or events you’d like to tell me about are also always welcome. I enjoy reading about how things are going for you. You only need one entry for the entire week.

     Below are the criteria I will use for grading your journals. Please read them over carefully and follow them as well as you can to get full credit each week.

                                                                   Sincerely,

                                                                   Mrs. Petergal

 

 

Assessment:

          Heading (include date)                        1 Pt.

          Includes pieces and pages practiced    2 Pts.

          Includes length of time practiced         2 Pts.

Discusses successes, questions, problems,

and progress (be specific)                   5 Pts.

          Paragraph form, used full sentences    3 Pts.

          Signed by a parent                              1 Pt.

          Total                                                  14 Pts.

 

          Late Journals                                      -3 Pts.

          Journals on loose leaf paper                -1 Pt.

How to Write a Weekly Recorder Journal

 

Today’s Date

 

Dear Mrs. Petergal,

 

 In a paragraph write:

1)     A sentence about what you practiced. (I practiced pages…. and the songs…)

2)     A sentence telling how much you practiced. (I practiced every day for___ minutes.)

3)     Two or three sentences telling how you did on recorder this week. (I think I played…., or I thought my playing sounded…, or The songs are…, etc.)

4)     You can write a sentence or two with a personal comment if you’d like.

 

Sincerely,

Your name.

 

Parent’s signature.

 

 

Music Word Bank

 

recorder       notes           songs          help             study           breath

practice       minutes        easy             hour            belt              confused

hard             fun              music          show           test              staff

every           day              week            night            absent          measure

morning       early            journal         soft             orange         challenge

loud             difficult        look             play             squeak         improved

breathe        tonguing      yellow          green           white           played

purple          black           red              fingers         fingering      pitches