Rabbits and SnailsWeek 2

Today we practiced holding our violins in rest and play positions . We played pizzicato  on G and D . Ms Loftus and her class moved on to A . We played short and long notes for Twinkle Twinkle .  Can you remember what words had long notes .

**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 carrot pencils.

            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

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An Excellent Leader

Bunny rabbit hands

Three great bow hands 

                                We had some very good leaders today including Wiame ( Mr C)  Damilola (Ms Leahy) and Cormac (Ms Loftus)

Next week  Bow hold and our first two note tune and a guest artist . Looking forward to it already !

Improvers Group
Group 1 Twinkle and Old macDonald   Bruno, Brandon , Dami , Doreen, Sophie, Emilia,
Group 2 Leaving Lismore Band tune  Ben, Brendan, Emmanuel, Claudia, Hayley, Ailish

 

Away We Go : Rest and Play

Great Day At Ennis 

We had a very exciting day at Holy Family Senior School Ennis  as all the 4th classes began the HFSS String  2012 programme .    Well done to the classes of Mr Griffin,, Mr Corbett and Ms Loftus .  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 .

Thank you to Preincipal, Ms Barnes', who called in to wish us well.

Demonstrating the Double Bass

Away We Go in Rest Position

*Mr Corbett's class  met all three members of the bowed string family.  can you remember what they were  (C_ _ _ _ . D_ _ _ _ _ _B _ _ _) ?

*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)

*We practiced a bow . 

BRAVO TUTTI !

Improvers' Group

10 students

1 Ben, Dami, Doreen, Brandon

2, Claudia, Emmanuel, Brendan, Ailish, Hayley, Emilia

Revision of Tunes 

Old MacDonald and Twinkle 

New Note C natural  (2nd finger back on A string) 1^2 

Exercise 'Jaws' Start with 1st finger on A . Place your 2nd finger next to it to make C natural . Repeat to make the 'Jaws' theme 

1---^2   1---^2   1^2 1^2 1^2

Make sure your second finger is touching the first.

Slurring  two notes in one bow 

Holy Family Strings Year 2

****Announcing 

Holy Family Strings 2011 -2012

Principal Sarah Barnes and the Board of Management of Holy Family Senior School announce the continuation of the Violin For All Programme for all incoming 4th class students as part of the Holy Family 4th  class  school curriculum .

Classes begin next week Tuesday 18th September and will continue weekly.

An optional  Play On  improvers group drawn from last years 4th class  will meet also on Tuesday.