Left hand position & finger independence: "One Little Elephant"

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Bow hold:
•Pencil exercises I
•Pencil exercises II
Left hand strength and flexibility:
•1 Little Elephant
•4 Little Elephants Jumping on a Web
• Smallmotor "pick up" game
Position in Motion:
•"Home built" violins with activities
Reading readiness:
"Who Ran Away?"
"Twinkle Rhythm Flash Cards"
Supplementary Music and Midis
 Twinkle Rag
Daisy Daisy
Daisy sheet music


The midi and the original harmony it plays are not for resale. If you would like to make arrangements to include it on a website, please write grandma@grandmaskite.com.

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Marisa's elephant # 4 jumps
first on the "twig" (her thumb.)

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One little elephant went out to play
Out on a spider's web one day.
She (he) had such enormous fun,
She (he) asked another elephant to come.

Two little elephants went out to play
Out on a spider's web one day.
They had such enormous fun,
They asked another elephant to come.

[Continue to four. On the last verse (four little elephants) I speak:
"they all went home for a delicious snack of ____."]

[To my knowledge, there is no copyright on the melody.
If you know of such, please write grandma@grandmaskite.com ]

 

Now the elephant jumps on the spider's web. (The web is all those lines on your palm. If the children do the fingerplay with palm out, I ask them to make sure they can see the spider's web.)

When the finger hops from "twig to web," or from thumb to palm, we are practicing the motion needed to change strings without collapsing the wrist.

One little elephant went out to play, midi, violin left hand flexibility game, Suzuki group session game, Suzuki violin game, Suzuki enrichment activity
If you would like to receive notification as new Suzuki resources are added to this site, you can send an email to grandma@grandmaskite.com. Your email will not be sold, shared, traded, or used for any other purpose than that which you requested. As it turns out, I have been adding a topic in a parent letter about once a month for my own Suzuki families.

Other Suzuki resources on Grandma's Kite:

Pencil exercises, set one for bow hold
Pencil exercises, set two for bow hold
One Little Elephant (left finger strength and flexibility)
Four Little Elephants Jumping on a Web (left finger naming, strength and flexibility)
Left hand number card "pick up" game
"Home built" violins and ways to use them in group sessions
Reading readiness game "Who Ran Away?"
Reading readiness game "Rhythm Flash "
"Reading Readiness in Music"

Supplementary Music and Midis

Twinkle Rag – a twinkle variation with a new twist on half of the rhythm in Variations A and D. Same four sixteenth notes in a ragtime setting

Daisy Daisy uses a three four twist on "Mississippi without the hot dog." The whole accompaniment is open D and G. The song and bass line can be played as a violin / 'cello duet or on the piano.

For more information on the Monroe Street Fine Arts Center Suzuki program, see Monroe Street Fine Arts Center, http://www.msfac.org/ or email grandma@grandmaskite.com.

For more information on Middleton School of Performing Arts, see http://msopa.net or email grandma@grandmaskite.com.

 

 
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