Beginning Band
2025
5th Grade Band Registration (for all KSD 140 5th Graders) will take place on Wednesday, September 17 and Thursday, September 18 at Grissom Middle School. Click HERE to download the Band Registration Letter.
HANDOUTS
1. Beginning Band Handbook 2025
2. After School Practice Schedule - begins week of October 27, 2025
3. D140 Band Parents Organization Letter
LESSON DAYS
All school lessons begin the week of September 22, 2025, and will continue weekly through the entire year. Students will remember to bring their instrument, band book, and a pencil to school on their assigned lesson day. Your folding music stand stays at home.
Tuesdays - Fernway & Keller
Wednesdays - Bannes & Millennium
Thursdays - McAuliffe
The Beginning Band is the organization which lays the foundation for the entire Instrumental Music Program and is open to any District 140 fifth grader who expresses interest in learning to play a woodwind, brass, or percussion instrument. Beginning Band members participate in two concerts during the school year.
Recruitment is held annually in September to enlist for membership. The dates for 2025 are Wednesday, September 17 and Thursday, September 18. Previous instrumental music experience is not required. General requirements include a desire to excel musically and a willingness to conform to the District 140 Band Guidelines. Mr. Szczasny, Mr. Hodges, and Mr. Forlenza team-teach the Beginning Band.
Each Beginning Band member receives a 30 minute lesson at his/her home elementary school per week. In addition to the weekly lesson, all Beginning Band members join together for an hour long "full band" rehearsal. Students can attend the Monday after school practice at Grissom (4:15 to 5:15 PM) or the Tuesday after school practice at Prairie View (4:15 to 5:15 PM).
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