Materials for Practicing Movement
and what we do with them
You can buy expensive wands with fancy swivels at the ends of polished
handles;
but you can also make them out of inexpensive, easy to find components.
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Education
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Letter Topics
Bow hold:
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exercises I
•Pencil
exercises II
Left
hand strength and flexibility:
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Little Elephant
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Little Elephants Jumping on a Web
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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
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Illustrations
by Karen Zethmayr
streamer wand
The streamer on the left is 3 yards of satin ribbon attached to a 1' length
of dowel by a fishing swivel.
Caution: Read the label! Many fishing swivels contain lead! Buy carefully!
The swivel attaches with a safety pin like piece. The ribbon has a "selvedge," meaning it won't; ravel when it sees a lot of action. Smaller kids may have an easier time with 2 yard streamers.
The swivel keeps the streamer from tangling or "roping up" as you stream it through the air in arcs and figure 8s.
fishing swivel and screw eye
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Streamers make many shapes in the air, and we use them to reinforce rhythmic concepts, such as the time/space/energy relationship between long and short sounds.
We also use them at times when bowing patterns need to solidify. On child can show up/down, and long/short patterns with a streamer while another child, or teacher, or parent plays. Quick motions with the wand (as when we need to use 5", not 18" of bow), make the streamer snap quickly, but for longer durations, you can make wonderful large circles, or series of small corkscrew circles, or squiggles.
Streamers are one way to involve beginning students in group sessions in pieces they have heard but do not yet play.
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.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.
Email Karen Zethmayr grandma@grandmaskite.com • Teaching Resume • Design Resume
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