8:00 Check in: students sign in, put their things away and then have quiet choices until 9:00am.
9:00 - 9:15: Circle time, gather students, learn names. Go over music center inside boundaries and expectations. Video; Meet the Orchestra.
9:15-10:15: EveryDay Sing: Viva la Vida, Waving Flag, Cripple Creek, and Country Roads. Please add in other songs as you want/need. The four songs listed here can be played on open strings and/or first position.
10:15-10:45: Morning fruit break. Go over outside expectations, and boundaries.
10:45-12:00: Review solfege, note names, treble, bass, and alto clef, staff, lines and spaces, etc. Queen Treble/King Bass song. Worksheets for treble, bass, and alto clef. Fingerboard for all stringed instruments.
12:00-1:00: Lunch and outside/free choice time.
1:00-2:00: Go over the parts of the violin. Viola will be the same. Cello and bass add in the end pin. Make Puff Ball Monsters.
2:00-2:30: Afternoon fruit break.
2:30-4:00: Learn bow holds; for violin and viola, and cello. Play four corners with violin music, pointing bows instead of moving bodies. Pass toilet paper tubes back and forth (using tip of the bow).
4:00-6:00: Free choices and practicing