Club invention! at Bonsall Elementary

July 11-14th, 2011

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The Bonsall Education Foundation After School Enrichment Program-Band Spring 2011 Session

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Band Class Description

The fun and exciting after school band classes are starting at Bonsall Elementary School thanks to the Bonsall Education Foundation! The beginning band class is designed for 4th, 5th and 6th grade students who are interested in learning to play an instrument. No prior music knowledge is required; however students must be able to commit to attending class every week, practicing, and attending 1 evening recital. Instruments being taught include clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, and trumpet. This class will teach students to read music, use and care for an instrument, play in a group, and perform in front of an audience. Sign up now and join the fun! Family and friends are invited to our performance at the end of the year!

Meet your Music Instructors

Mrs. Amanda Furr has been interested in music and teaching for most of her life. As many of her students have, she started playing the clarinet in fifth grade. After a full school career of music, Mrs. Furr went on to teach private music lessons and band lessons throughout college. She taught in schools all over the San Marcos Unified School District and a private music studio. She attended CSU San Marcos with aspirations to become an elementary school teacher. She graduated on the Dean’s List in 2001 with a BA in Liberal Studies with a minor in Visual & Performing Arts. In 2002, she was accepted to the education program at CSUSM and received her elementary teaching credential in 2003. After working in an elementary classroom in San Marcos for 3 years, Mrs. Furr decided to stay home with her newborn son. In 2007, she starting teaching music at Bonsall West Elementary and Vivian Banks Charter School; both in the Bonsall Union School District. This new position allowed Mrs. Furr the opportunity to combine both of the areas she loved… music and teaching. Since then she has earned her music teaching credential from CSUSM, started a successful band program at all three Bonsall elementary schools, and created music programs for kindergarten through sixth grades that include singing, dancing, instruments, drumming, note reading, and listening skills…“I look forward to all the progress we can make with music in the Bonsall Union School District with the help of the Bonsall Education Foundation, teachers, parents, and administrators. So many schools are cutting music entirely and it is really sad for their students. Bonsall students are enjoying their time in music and learning a lot in the process. I hope to inspire students to have fun and do their very best in everything they do.”

Mrs. Stacy Sharpe-Pecore’s love of music began at a very early age. She is an accomplished pianist and the third generation in a family of professional musicians. Mrs. Sharpe-Pecore graduated from SDSU with a BA in Music Education, a performance Major in Piano, and a Masters in multi-cultural teaching.

Mrs. Sharpe-Pecore has been working for the Bonsall Union School District for over ten-years. She has taught beginning band and K-6th grade music at all elementary schools in addition to teaching intermediate and advanced concert bands, jazz ensembles and show choirs at Sullivan Middle School.

Her middle school show choirs have taken multiple sweepstakes, superior ratings and overall vocalist awards each year at competitions such as Disney’s Music in the Parks, Heritage and Southern California Vocal Association. Mrs. Sharpe-Pecore’s 2009/10 SMS jazz band took overall jazz ensemble at the Park’s competition just this last year…“I am looking forward to teaching this new enrichment band program at Bonsall Elementary School this spring and helping develop a new group of budding musicians. I am continually grateful to the Bonsall Educational Foundation and to the wonderful families in our Bonsall “family” for all their support in "keeping music in our schools!"