2nd year band students should be practicing most days from 15-30 minutes per session.  I always talk to the kids and tell them that I know it is not likely they will be able to practice every day, but as many days as they can is helpful.  I haven't decided if we'll do practice cards.  I would really like to find a way to do practice at home and have parents email me or post their practice time each week.  If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

Beginning band students won't have much practice time at first.  We will begin by putting instruments together and cleaning.  Then we move on to making sounds and learning the first few notes.  At first they should practice 10 minutes per day most days of the week.  I will post more specifics when we actually start with instruments.