Tuesday 24 September 2013

Rabbits and Snails

Today we practiced holding our violins in rest and play positions . We played a new  pizzicato tune  on A and D 

Foxtrot
D D D_  A A A_
D D D_  A A A_
D D D _ D D D _ 
A A A _ A A D_

**New today**  Carrot pencils and bunny rabbit hands. Using our right hands we practiced making snail shapes and bunny rabbit hands before biting down on our practice pumpkin bows
            Things to remember  Bend your thumb
            Fingers well over the pencil to make those bunny rabbit teeth

New Today  Our First Rhythm Win ter Time In  Rus -Sia

Our leaders today were Julia, Adriana, Kinga and Ciara. 

 V  l  l  

Leader 

Pack Up Team 

Wednesday 18 September 2013

Away We Go: Rest and Play

Away We Go : Rest and Play


Greedy Dinosaurs Ate Everything 



We had a very exciting day at Presentation  Primary School Waterford   as all the 3rd and 4th classes began the Stringschool   programme .    Well done to the classes of Mr Bourke, Ms Keating , Ms Fitzgerald and Ms Nolan .  Super attention and concentration in the first class today!

We learned the name of all four strings today.
We learned how to hold the violin in rest and play position .

Dinner Plates

Violin Floor All ready

Lollipop Lady


Rest Position

We met two other members  bowed string family.  can you remember what they were  (C_ _ _ _ .  and V _ _ _ _ ?

*We learned about low pitched and high pitch . What  is the lowest pitched string  on the violin. ?
*We learned to hold our violins in two positions ,  (a) rest and (b) play position.

We played pizzicato ( plucking the string on  lowest string G to Old McDonald track 18)
*We learned the names of all four violin strings (see above)

Finally we played along with some Vivaldi   
Piece No 1 Summer 

*We practiced a bow . 

BRAVO TUTTI !