Beginning Practice Sheet 1 Q4 Due April 1

Write a check mark in when you accomplish each practice point only on the days you practice.

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Write in Date:

Bunny Rhyme Face Exercises:  25 Circles Tip Taps: 10 per finger (bounce your finger) Thumb Lifts – 15 to 30 times Violins & Violas: Teeter Totter Cellos & Basses:  Mini Rainbows Bunny/Bow: 4 times Pinkie Whacks Ceiling Circles 10 times each way Up Like a Rocket Bow Circles 10 times Elevators (1, 2, 123) 4 – 10 times Spiders & Crabs 1 – 3 times Silent String Crossings 20-30 seconds Ghost Slides – 10 times on 2nd finger

Review Songs – Twinkle, Jingle Bells, Kangaroo Song Bile ‘em Cabbage Down , Jolly Old St. Nick, Hot Cross Buns, Rigadoon, Little Brown Jug, Ode to Joy, Bile Them Cabbage Down, Dreidel, At Pierrot’s Door, Ruben & Rachel, Lightly Row, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, French Folk Song, Scotland’s Burning

Blue Finger Pattern – 5-note exercise

G Major Scale and Arpeggio

Shifting Exercise – Shifting Song

Bohemian Folk Song

Star Wars

New World Symphony Theme

Bohemian Stomp

Write in Daily Time:

TOTAL TIME IN MINUTES:_________

You must practice 8 or more different days over two weeks to earn these grades.

Students who practice fewer days will have their grade docked no matter how many minutes they practice.

The amount of practice will go UP each Practice Sheet.

More than 180 minutes = Extra Credit    *160-180 minutes = A    *150-159 minutes = B 

*140-149 minutes = C     *120-129 minutes = D    *Less than 120 minutes = F (An F is better than a ZERO!!!)

Signatures are required for the grade.

Parent Signature___________________________________________________________________

Student Signature__________________________________________________________________