It is VERY important that you continue practicing over the summer in order to keep up all the great playing skills you have acquired this year. Please find a regular time to fit in some practicing--it's easy to let the days fly by without taking out your instrument. MAKE PRACTICING PART OF YOUR SUMMER SCHEDULE!
Remember, we will have performance tests for chair placement during the first 2 weeks of school in August. Those students that keep playing over the summer will be most likely to do well on this test.
Suggested practice material:
Review and practice anything in your Essential Elements book. Just start at the beginning and move through the book to refresh your memory and improve technical speed and accuracy. Rising 7th Graders can go ahead and get Essential Elements 2000 Book 2 and begin work in it.
Practice Scales-- both major and minor scales with arpeggios. There is a section in your EE Book that shows almost all the scales.
Find a popular song that you like and learn to play it!
Try memorizing a piece that you like! Or improvise on a piece!
And most of all---HAVE FUN!!!