When: Friday, November 1st from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Acton Community Center
Cost: Admission $15
***Fantastic Raffle Items***
**Great Prizes**
*Snacks and Beverages (Available for Purchase)*
Tickets available for pre-purchase at Meadowlark and at the door the night of the event.
Come support our AMAZING MUSIC PROGRAM!
Come celebrate the new school year by joining us on Friday, September 20th from 5-8pm at Meadowlark Elementary School for a BBQ catered by Pit Stop Barbecue.
Our new principal, Ms. Tredick, will be there along with a raffle, a live auction for a Meadowlark premium parking spot, and western activities.
Get your pre-ordered tickets today by calling Debbie Blaha at (661)492-2328.
Meal choices include: Pulled Chicken Dinner for $9.00, 1/4 lb Hot Dog Meal for $7.00 and a Grilled Cheese Meal for $7.00.
*All proceeds go directly to funding music education*
As President of ASMO, I am honored to be your President for the 2012-2013 school year.
I want to personally thank all the Board Members and Members-at-Large for their continued support of ASMO and our upcoming events.
I am very excited to announce that we will continue to move forward with all our volunteers, past and present. They have always been amazingly supportive with their countless hours and have made this program a success.
We’re presently moving forward with our annual Bingo fundraiser (November 11th). Please join us. It will be fun and exciting. The best news is that our ASMO music teachers have agreed to join us at this event. Let’s show our support.
We look forward to seeing you at all our events. I am open to any input and help to any and all events.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely, Dee Emeterio
ASMO kicked off the 2012-2013 year with our annual Spagetti Dinner Fundraiser on September 28th. The food was great and the event well attended.
Two Preferred Parking spots were auctioned off. The lucky winners were The Right Connection Service, LLC and EEAP.
Thank you EEAP and The Right Connection Service for your generous support of ASMO and music in our schools.
Thank you Pam Wolter and Carla Wolter for chairing this event.
Thank you everyone who attended and helped support music in our schools.
Submitted by Dawn Schneider on behalf of the Children’s Music Workshop
1. Early musical training helps develop brain areas involved in language and reasoning. It is thought that brain development continues for many years after birth. Recent studies have clearly indicated that musical training physically develops the part of the left side of the brain known to be involved with processing language, and can actually wire the brain’s circuits in specific ways. Linking familiar songs to new information can also help imprint information on young minds.
2. There is also a causal link between music and spatial intelligence (the ability to perceive the world accurately and to form mental pictures of things). This kind of intelligence, by which one can visualize various elements that should go together, is critical to the sort of thinking necessary for everything from solving advanced mathematics problems to being able to pack a book-bag with everything that will be needed for the day.
3. Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and assumptions. Questions about the arts do not have only one right answer.
4. Recent studies show that students who study the arts are more successful on standardized tests such as the SAT. They also achieve higher grades in high school.
5. A study of the arts provides children with an internal glimpse of other cultures and teaches them to be empathetic towards the people of these cultures. This development of compassion and empathy, as opposed to development of greed and a “me first” attitude, provides a bridge across cultural chasms that leads to respect of other races at an early age.
6. Students of music learn craftsmanship as they study how details are put together painstakingly and what constitutes good, as opposed to mediocre, work. These standards, when applied to a student’s own work, demand a new level of excellence and require students to stretch their inner resources.
7. In music, a mistake is a mistake; the instrument is in tune or not, the notes are well played or not, the entrance is made or not. It is only by much hard work that a successful performance is possible. Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work.
8. Music study enhances teamwork skills and discipline. In order for an orchestra to sound good, all players must work together harmoniously towards a single goal, the performance, and must commit to learning music, attending rehearsals, and practicing.
9. Music provides children with a means of self-expression. Now that there is relative security in the basics of existence, the challenge is to make life meaningful and to reach for a higher stage of development. Everyone needs to be in touch at some time in his life with his core, with what he is and what he feels. Self-esteem is a by-product of this self-expression.
10. Music study develops skills that are necessary in the workplace. It focuses on “doing,” as opposed to observing, and teaches students how to perform, literally, anywhere in the world. Employers are looking for multi-dimensional workers with the sort of flexible and supple intellects that music education helps to create as described above. In the music classroom, students can also learn to better communicate and cooperate with one another.
11. Music performance teaches young people to conquer fear and to take risks. A little anxiety is a good thing, and something that will occur often in life. Dealing with it early and often makes it less of a problem later. Risk-taking is essential if a child is to fully develop his or her potential. Music contributes to mental health and can help prevent risky behavior such as teenage drug abuse.
12. An arts education exposes children to the incomparable.
Thanks Children’s Music Workshop for the article
Acton School Music Program needs your participation!
by Sandra Beck
2. Why is music important for our children?
3. What are the benefits of having a music program in our school district?
4. What are some of the needs you have in the program right now?
5. How can parents and families help?
6. How can the community help?
7. If you were granted one wish by a generous benefactor for your music program what would the be?
Acton Schools Music Organization - ASMO 