Booster Meeting May 6th

Eustis Mustang Parents

We are having our monthly booster meeting 

This coming Monday at 6 p.m.

In the band room.

• On the discussion table:
• Our Budget
• The Spring Concert and finished details
• The Band Banquet and details
• Ideas for fundraising for the budget next year

Please if you are available our meetings never last more than an hour. 

We would love to see you there. 

Mr. Ricke has directing here at EMS for almost 20 years!

Hey everyone I am looking for past students of Mr. Ricke. He has been the director at EMS for 19 years! I want to give him a big thanks on 20 coming up..... So I am looking for shout out from all you musicians.

 

As Director of Bands at Eustis Middle School, Mr. Ricke is responsible for a variety of musical ensembles. He directs the Mustang Steel Panology Steel Drum ensemble, two Beginner Concert Bands, Intermediate Concert Band, Advanced Concert Band, the combined 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grade Marching Mustangs, Mustang Jazz II, and the award winning Eustis Mustang Thundering Herd Jazz Ensemble. Mr. Ricke assists students with Music Performance Assessment preparation for solo/ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, and concert band as well as State, District, and County Honor Band preparation.

http://eustismiddleband.com/our-director

Band Banquet

Our Band Banquet is on May 22nd!

Tickets are on sale now.

Tickets are $25 each.

This event is held at Lake Receptions.

http://www.lakereceptions.com/

This includes a great meal, slideshow of the yearly events and awards.

This is a special evening for your musician. 
They have worked very hard this year. 

Practicing, preforming and competing. 

We hope to see you there!

Any donations are appreciated and help the foundation for the MCSC program. Helping us reach out to many local children. Showing them that with hard work they could achieve such dreams and at the same time learning is easier and more fun. For More Information Please Visit:

https://www.fundraise.com/eustis-middle-school-band-program-and-community-partnership/eustis-middle-school-band-program-and-community-partnership 

donate

Eustis Middle School Band Program and Community Partnership

Our students are positive role models in the comunity and we are working to develop a program called The Mustang Caring For School Community (MCSC). The program is designed to create a caring school environment characterized by kind and supportive relationships and collaboration among students from the Mustang Band, staff, and parents. The MCSC model is consistent with research-based practices for increasing student achievement as well as the theoretical and empirical literature supporting the benefits of a caring classroom community in meeting students' needs for emotional and physical safety, supportive relationships, autonomy, and sense of competence.
By creating a caring school community, our program seeks to promote pro-social values, increase academic motivation and achievement, and prevent drug use, violence, and delinquency. MCSC has four components designed to be implemented over the course of the school year:

(1) Meeting the community Throughout the year the Eustis Mustang Middle School Band competes in many fairs, festivals and shows. After each performance the members of the band gives other students a question and answer session. During this time our students explain all the benefits they receive during their time with the band program. The members of the band each explain how the band has helped them become better students, friends, and how the confidence just helps them be a better human being overall.

(2) Class Meeting Lessons This provide students in the Mustang Band with a forum to spend time with local elementary school students in a classroom climate. During the time spent in the classroom our students will share their experiences and explain why the time they spend with the band is not only good for social awareness but more important how being involved with the arts can improve test results. Our students want to show the younger elementary students that learning notation in music reading is understanding fractions. With the Mustang Band sending members to the local elementary schools Mastering fractions is a problem for students of mathematics instruction. Understand and having facility with fractions is the key to understanding and being able to do higher mathematics. Understanding how to use and manipulate fractions is a consistent problem for English Language Learners. Using music and musical notation as tools has proven to raise mathematical understanding.

(3) Community Outreach This is an important tool that the members of The Mustang Band use now and will continue to build upon. During the school year the Eustis Middle School Mustang Band plays music around our community many times, for instance, our local Street Festivals, parades and elementary schools. But we want to take it a step further. Our Community Outreach Program will reach the children who are not always exposed to the fact that children at 10, 12, 14 years of age can actually play an instrument. We want to reach those children who did not know they had the option to join the band due to financial restraints. Our program will bring our Jazz Band and our Steel Drum Band to The Place twice per year. During this event the members of the band will reach out to children who are underprivileged and housed in bad areas. Letting them know about our instrumental donation program. These children are not aware that thanks to fund-raising efforts they could too join band because the entry fees and uniforms can in fact be donated. These are the children who need something inspirational so they may fulfill their lives in the best way possible. Many of these children may never know that they too could play a steel drum or saxophone.

(4) Real World Experience Once per year we will invite the top thirty students from the elementary schools that are in our jurisdiction. The top thirty meaning the thirty students that have the most poor attendance and or grades. We will invite them to a free event hosted by the Mustang Band in their band room. The students will get a chance to see in person the Eustis Mustang Steel Drum Band and The Eustis Mustang Jazz Ensemble. After the concert the students from the surrounding schools will be able to interact with the instruments, the students and the director. The students will be able to ask any question and as they feel more comfortable in this situation learning and attending becomes a want. After this event we the booster committee talks about the very possibility that a child who was not trying hard can with commitment try something fun and interesting. Then the committee will distribute information about our instrument donation program that would not be known for not having this Real World Experience.

We all know that integration of the arts with academics makes it easier for students to improve their grades. The Mustang Caring For School Community (MCSC) wants to reach as many students as possible. If we can reach more children our future world will be an even better place.

Ads Are On sale

Our Spring Concert and Banquet Sponsor Ads Are On Sale!!!! 

We would greatly appreciate it if you would become an EMS Music Education Partner. As an EMS Music Education Partner your partnership will be recognized in the following way: 

Level Blue : Amount $100.00 - Name recognition in the winter and spring concert programs.

Level Gold : $250.00 - Business card ad in the winter and spring concert programs.

A recognition plaque from the EMS band.

Level Mustang : $500.00 Gold level plus a link to web site on EMS Mustang Band web page.

Level Director : $1000.00 Mustang level plus your business/name on the EMS Mustang Band trailer.

Level Maestro : Amount over $1,000.00 Director level plus the satisfaction of helping children in the arts.

Please consider the possibility of printing an ad or coupon with your name and phone number. This is a way for you to get new clients using the same discounts that you may print in the newspaper or direct mail advertisements. The bonus to doing it this way is the end of the year and the tax breaks such a donation brings.

As a respected business in our community you know that Music Education builds the skills that businesses value and need.

We know that students of music bring creativity to product design and marketing.

• Study of music helps students to think and work across traditional disciplines. They learn to integrate knowledge and to “think outside the box.”
• A music education teaches students how to work together.
• A music education builds an understanding of diversity and the multi-cultural dimensions of our work.
• A music education contributes to areas that are important to the future of all Floridians.
• Consequently in a global world, studying music is participating in a global behavior conducted through universally accepted practices.
• And what musicians lack in business experience, they make up for in creativity.
• Math and science are the big talking and testing points in education these days, but human resource experts believe to truly succeed in today’s global economy, tomorrow’s workers benefit most from studying and participating in the arts.

I ask you to consider helping the children of today because they become the shoppers and workers of tomorrow.

Your donation could be in the form of a coupon in the concert programs or gift certificates that can be won or auctioned at the concert or a cash donation. Please got to..........

 http://eustismiddleband.com/support

We need Gifts for our Gift Basket Giveaways!

Each concert we have a 

Gift Basket Giveaway and 50/50 Cash Drawing.

 With our budget being very tight this year 

I am sending out an early notice. 

If you happen to be in town and you see a neat donation on sale,

PLEASE pick it up and send it in to the 

Band Room with your child.

We have volunteers that put the items in the baskets 

and then we sell $1.00 raffle tickets.

We normally will raise $500-$700 extra dollars on this giveaway!

Winter Concert 2012

Our Annual Spring Concert 

is on May 14 at The First Baptist Church in Eustis, Florida.

Giveaways are due about a week prior to concert.  

Thanks so much!!! 

Support Us With A Click!

Please click Here To Support Us! We are the Eustis Middle School Mustang Band. We are writing to you today in regards to the band program here in Eustis Florida. The Eustis Middle School Mustang Band is a program that is completely self funded. Many school districts across the country are facing financial hardship. School boards are faced with difficult decisions of what programs to cut and how to stretch the tax dollars to accommodate tight budgets. Increasing class sizes, pay cuts, and less working days take a toll on teacher salaries as they receive more pressure to improve students' performance. Among the programs hit hardest by budgetary cuts are those that are related to music education.

The Eustis Band Pogram is under the director Mr. Ricke, with his 33 years experience which 19 are here at this middle school. It is continuing to grow and has been highly successful over the last decade in local, state, and national competitions and festivals. This band is increasingly being invited to perform at these and a variety of other types of events. Every successful band program needs money. The more successful, the more money needed for continued success.

We know that students of music bring creativity to product design and marketing:
Study of music helps students to think and work across traditional disciplines. They learn to integrate knowledge and to “think outside the box.”
A music education teaches students how to work together.
A music education builds an understanding of diversity and the multi-cultural dimensions of our work.
A music education contributes to areas that are important to the future of all Floridians.
Consequently in a global world, studying music is participating in a global behavior conducted through universally accepted practices.
And what musicians lack in business experience, they make up for in creativity.
Math and science are the big talking and testing points in education these days, but human resource experts believe to truly succeed in today’s global economy, tomorrow’s workers benefit most from studying and participating in the arts.

In order to participate in a band program the children are required to purchase an instrument, buy a uniform, provide many entry fees, paying accompanists, and paying transportation and other expenses for trips and the parents bear the burden of most of that cost for.

We also have many underprivileged children here that require donated instruments and partial or full financial help on entry fees to such events as State competitions and the big parade at Universal Studios at the end of the year. The award award winning, first place Steel Drum program is almost completely paid out of the band's raised monies.

The Eustis Middle School Mustang Band appreciates the opportunity for a grant such as this. We are a small town school with big city aspirations. The cost for even operating the band is about $15,000 and we work hard to raise that each year. A grant from State Farm would the foundation for the new MCSC program improvements. Helping us reach out to many local children. Showing them that with hard work they could achieve such dreams and at the same time learning is easier and more fun. 

Like Us with this community grant effort here https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=375765809196131&set=o.193932800618843&type=1&theater