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 !