The Practice Olympics are here! Keep track of minutes and days practiced and remember you can get bonus points at your lesson for preparation!

*tip! Break up your practice into several sessions each day for better focus. Set a timer for a short session and when it goes off, reset it for double the time and go do something else....when it goes off again, come back and repeat! Remember we're going for quality and intelligent practice!

Top Scores
19 Emanuela *1 hour 30 minutes *+: 1 hour 30 minutes *1 of 4 days *bonus: -
19 Alyssa *2 hours 3 minutes *+: 30 minutes *4 of 5 days *bonus: -
18.5 Shreya *2 hours 35 minutes *+: - *3 of 4 days *bonus: -
12 Amanda M *1 hour 20 minutes *+: - hour 40 minutes *2 of 4 days *bonus: -
9.5 Sydney *1 hour 15 minutes *+: - *2 of 5 days *bonus: -
7.5 Lauren *- hours 55 minutes *+: - *2 of 4 days *bonus: -
6 Claire *- hours 50 minutes *+: - *1 of 4 days *bonus: -
4 Anusha *- hours 30 minutes *+: - *1 of 4 days *bonus: -
4 Sarina *- hours 30 minutes *+: - *1 of 4 days *bonus: -



Awesome! Award Categories

*Most practice over a weekend
*Most practice by a Grade 1 student
*Most practice by a Grade 2 student
*Most days overall of 60 minutes or more
*Fewest days of 10 minutes or less
*Highest total for "Double Days"
*Most consecutive days of at least 30 minutes

The Practice Olympics are here! Keep track of minutes and days practiced and remember you can get bonus points at your lesson for preparation!

*tip! Break up your practice into several sessions each day for better focus. Set a timer for a short session and when it goes off, reset it for double the time and go do something else....when it goes off again, come back and repeat! Remember we're going for quality and intelligent practice!

Top Ten Overall
1. Emanuela score: 19 *1 hour 30 minutes *+: 1 hour 30 minutes *1 of 4 days *bonus: -
2. Shreya score: 18.5 *2 hours 35 minutes *+: - *3 of 4 days *bonus: -
3. Amanda M score: 12 *1 hour 20 minutes *+: - hour 40 minutes *2 of 4 days *bonus: -
4. Lauren score: 7.5 *- hours 55 minutes *+: - *2 of 4 days *bonus: -
5. Claire score: 6 *- hours 50 minutes *+: - *1 of 4 days *bonus: -
6. Anusha score: 4 *- hours 30 minutes *+: - *1 of 4 days *bonus: -
7. Sarina score: 4 *- hours 30 minutes *+: - *1 of 4 days *bonus: -
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Awesome! Award Categories

*Most practice over a weekend
*Most practice by a Grade 1 student
*Most practice by a Grade 2 student
*Most days overall of 60 minutes or more
*Fewest days of 10 minutes or less
*Highest total for "Double Days"
*Most consecutive days of at least 30 minutes

The Practice Olympics will be here May 27th - June 23rd!

Here are the guidelines:
• Each week that a student brings their Practice Planner sheet to their lesson, they will be able to participate in the Practice Olympics.
• When a student brings a completed Practice Planner sheet to their lesson, I will tally their score based on length of time, consistency and results of practice.
• Each student may nominate one day in each week that counts as double: Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays. Every week that chosen day's practice will be doubled through the entirety of the month, so choose wisely!
• If a student forgets to bring their sheet to their lesson one week they can bring it to their lesson the next week, or the parent can email or text me the numbers.
• If a student misses a lesson they can print and fill out another sheet and bring both sheets to their next lesson. The link to the Practice Planner sheets can be found at www.stringsplay.blogspot.com under the "First Lessons" page.
• If a student has a double lesson, the extra lesson can be counted as a practice session!
• The Practice Olympics will be cumulative, so leaderboards will be regularly updated at www.stringsplay.blogspot.com with award categories as headings. The name of the current student leader will be posted under each category with their results as well as the current top 10 for the overall competition champion.
• The students who win individual categories will be awarded their prize during the next masterclass week and entered into the Hall of Fame permanently!

What a great concert! Thanks to all the students for all their hard work and beautiful music! I'd like to give a big thanks to Shivani for designing the beautiful programs that we had tonight, and Prajju and Shailly for helping everyone get tuned!

Thanks to all the parents for their wonderful support! We would like to profusely thank everyone who helped with set up and take down of the chairs, who helped get the kids on stage in order and for bringing things to make our space more lovely and hospitable! 

All the feedback regarding the location was very positive, so we will be continuing to use this facility in the future for recitals. Our next one will be in early November, date to be determined. Thanks! See you all this week for lessons!