This morning during 8th grade we worked on a piece for LGPE. It's the easiest of the 3 so I've pushed it off for a bit. We just started working on it yesterday. Already they can play about 3/4 of the way through two of the 3 pieces, and about 1/2 way through the other piece. The piece that is a level III on our II/III split program is the one they play the best! They were really proud with how well they played everything today and even told me "Ms. McHugh, we need to work on this piece a little more because of all the accents and that's what the judges are going to be looking for." THEY ARE USUALLY TOO WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE NOTES ARE TO EVEN SEE THAT ACCENTS EXIST! It was awesome.

Also, I did double bass auditions during 6th grade today. Realized that my plan to get the rest of the class involved in the judging process actually covered the "Evaluating music performances" standard. WINNING!