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)