Well into the year

We have finished the first nine weeks. My toughest troubles are getting anything done with the 8th grade band members, since I only see them for about 30 minutes total. It is very difficult to get any substance going with that short of a time. When they are done with their 30 minutes, they go away and the 7th graders stay in the room. I get another 20 minutes with them, and that is good, but I still have trouble getting anything done with any consistency.

My 6th grade music classes went okay, but I found out that I need to change the order of my unit of study so that they really learn what I want them to learn.