Lesson Tuesday 1/8/2008 Lesson 26

Practice List Tuesday 1/8/2008 Lesson 26

Practice List
1. MHD Twinkle “Sandwich” Practice (2 kinds of sandwich alternating singing and playing for bread and PB&J sections of Twinkle)
a. Practice exercise to learn to “play fast slowly”
i. Nora (helped by her parent partner) softly says (whispers) a rhythmic “Mississippi Hot Dog” between each note of her sandwich as she quickly prepares her finger and bow for the next note.
ii. Get fingers and bow ready really fast and be rhythmic
iii. When she has completed 15 sandwiches in this “play fast slowly” manner she should tell Mr S and Nora can then press his red “Easy” button to see what it will do!
iv. Be sure to take a bit more time for the swing – open back – drop D sequence
v. Mr S says she can also do HB and SBB

2. Note Cards are shown to Nora when she has violin: Nora is to sing pitch, play MHD pitch and sing pitch again

3. Song Identification
a. Make an A list of songs that Nora can identify every time (such as Allegro).
b. B list of songs that Nora takes more time or has a hard time identifying. Work on these more.
c. Song names in the cup can be one method for this. Do the harder ones more often.

4. Eye contact for presentations of poem and listening piece
5. Goal to work toward from lesson 24 - practice for 5 minutes without stopping.
6. Review: choose exercises from previous lessons as warranted
Notes:
1) Nora stayed close to Mr S (he calls this staying in the teaching bubble) for the entire lesson. In fact she crept very close to him and seemed to nearly hang on him at times in her apparent eagerness to see him again. Hair and clothing were not problems and she followed directions quite well.
2) He described that Nora should be singing the song in her brain while she is playing rather than thinking of thoughts and words that she wants to say.
3) Nora chose to do a Stop Big Bow and a Huckleberry sandwich for Mr S, but when she did her singing parts she sang Mississippi Hot Dog! He then asked her to do MHD sandwiches for him. We told Mr S that Nora has practiced MHD sandwiches for the last several weeks and Mima said that this was still a challenge.
4) Mr S started the lesson with song ID. Nora easily named Lightly Row, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Long Long Ago, Allegro and Allegretto. She at first thought Song of the Wind was Perpetual Motion, but corrected herself on the second guess. She took extra time to get Andantino and May Song, but did get them. She had significant difficulty with Perpetual Motion and when he said it had the doubles she guessed that it was Etude. He said that we should work harder (review more times) our “B” list songs, the songs she misses more often.
5) Nora gave her poem “One Two Buckle My Shoe” and looked right into Mr S’s eyes on the second recitation.
6) He told Nora and Mima about the Playing Fast Slowly concept and even asked Nora to tell him what she learned in the lesson. She was able to tell him that she needed to “move her finger fast” and “get ready fast” (the bow too!). He told Mima that as Nora got more advanced she would learn to do this “getting ready fast slowly” exercise on MHD twinkle saying just the “Hot Dog” and lastly by saying just the “Dog” as she prepares her next note.
Further Explanations:
7) Story Format: for Listening Piece Recitation on Friday: “Peter Tchaikovsky composed The Nutcracker Suite, and it was conducted Michael Tilson Thomas with the Philharmonia Orchestra”
8) Poem recitation Tuesday, look at Mr S.