Suzuki Information
Hello! Here you will find miscellaneous postings related to your enrollment as a Suzuki family.
November 2022
Strategies to Ease Performance Anxiety
October 2022 Suzuki Violin Program
The Practice Challenge is here!
Practice Challenge Calendar 2022
August 2022 – New School Year Coming!
Spring 2022 Suzuki Learning
Download/view here Review with Improvements
October 2021: The Practice Challenge is On!
Here you can download/print/view a Practice Challenge Calendar for Fall 2021 pdf.
Or a Practice Challenge Calendar Fall 2021 word doc. here.
August / September 2021
It is time for…The Big Ear Challenge 2021
Big Ear Challenge Calendar: Download the Big Ear Challenge Calendar 2021
More information on The Challenge, Why, How posted here.
May 2021 News
The Value of Listening. Downloadable/printable pdf
Parent Conferences 2021
Click one of the links below to access the Parent Conference Questionnaire.
Word Document:
Questionnaire – Parent Conferences 2021
Printable PDF document:
Questionnaire – Parent Conferences 2021
The October Practice Challenge 2020
Here’s the Practice Challenge Calendar 2020 you can use to track your progress.
The BIG Ear Challenge 2020!
Happy new school year!
Click below to access the Big Ear Challenge information and calendar you’ll need to track your progress.
Recognizing Suzuki Milestones: The Twinkles
In order to be awarded a ‘Twinkle Pin’ students must:
- Submit a video of all of the Twinkle Variations and the Theme performed with accompaniment, demonstrating good violin position, tone, intonation and tempo. This recording will be viewed by both the student’s teacher and the Suzuki Program Coordinator.
- Perform a Variation and the Theme in a performance class or recital.
Students will then be publicly congratulated and awarded a pin. This program is not meant to be a competition, but an individual process, and it is completely optional. Only students who are motivated to achieve this milestone should pursue a twinkle pin.
As of 2019, our Monthly Suzuki E-News now goes out directly via Constant Contact.
Below you can find various documents that accompany past newsletters.
May 2017 E-News Attachment
January 2017 E-news Attachments
These documents are referenced in Amy Matherly’s January Suzuki Parent Newsletter. Click to view/print a pdf.
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3 – Practicing Challenges: The Beginning, The Middle and The End.
Ideas for Parents by Amy Matherly
New for 2017: Parent Conferences
As also outlined in PDF No. 1 above: We will be holding Parent Teacher conferences during the month of January. We are trying this for the first time this year and participation is voluntary. We hope you will try it! Let your teacher know if you would like to sign on for a conference.
How The Conferences Work
Our Suzuki Parent Teacher Conference will give you and your teacher the opportunity to discuss how things are going, address concerns and come up with a unified plan for your child’s instrumental music study in 2017.
Your teacher will benefit from hearing about your child from your perspective and you can learn more about your teacher’s strategies and goals for him or her.
Topics for discussion:
- Your child’s lessons and progress
- Practice habits and challenges
- Goals – do we share the same ones?
- Areas that you feel you need more help or support
- What you feel is working as well as things that can be changed or improved
- Anything else that you would like to bring up
How it will work:
- To help you organize your thoughts we have put together a questionnaire (posted as Item 2 above). Fill it out and bring it with you to the conference.
- The conference will take place during the student’s regular lesson time without the student present (and will take the place of one lesson).
- We offer the option of having more experienced students attend part of the conference so that they can express their point of view and ask questions. If you think this may be valuable for your child, they will also be given a questionnaire to complete and will be invited in at some point.
Contact Us
Phone (508) 791-8159 Office & Mailing Address Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester 10 Irving Street, Worcester, MA 01609 Email info@pakmusic.org
