Orchestra Camp: Thing One’s report
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 by Thing OneEditor’s Note: Thing One recently completed three weeks of orchestra camp, organized by the school district and held at Thing One’s middle school.
I play the cello; there were 2 other cellos, and 6 violins. On Thursday on week 3, there was a concert. The songs the orchestra played were Fiddlin’ to Boston, Rigadoon, New World Symphony Theme and Rockin’ Strings. On Fridays, we played games. In Friday #1, we played kickball, we played soccer ball on Friday #2 and field day on Friday #3, we had Field day. My favorite game was tug o’ war. The boys won best out of 3. (boys:2\3) and also on Friday 3, we had a pizza feed. I had one kind of each (pepperoni, cheese and meat) and Sprite (opposed to Coke). And we watched movies. First week, Robots, second week, Valiant and third week, The Gods Must be Crazy. Friday #3 was extended to 12:30 for the pizza feed. I liked the summer music program and it’s grades 4-8 so I can do it again. I really liked Field Day the best and Rockin’ Strings was the most fun to play.
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