Violin Program
What’s being taught in our K-1 Violin Program:
- Correct posture for violin playing
- Good foot placement for violin playing (moved between rest and play position)
- Focus/paying attention
- Introduced to violin and bow; names of parts
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with movement; shows intervals of pitch within song
- “Look at Me” pose in preparation to holding violin(body straight only head turned)
- Violin hold
- Naming violin finger numbers (Beehive Song)
- Introduction to Bowing rhythms (sitting on floor, crossing the middle line, tapping violin knee with bow hand to taka taka stop stop)
- Introduction to bow hold (stand up bow thumb and song See a Little Monkey)