Today is lesson day again. I will be interested to see what will happen. We've lost momentum again, and something different needs to happen with the Tuck-a Bow. The Maestro doesn't seem to make any connection between practicing his bowing rythmns on his Tuck-a Bow and what he is planning to do with his Cello with his real bow. No mental connection, no motivation.
We had a couple of really good days with practice bow holds. Riley came up with a game that the Maestro really liked, and they did like 20 in one day. A friend of mine gave me a sticky rubber eyeball for the Maestro. He loves it, and loves to throw it against the wall to see it stick. Whoever demonstrated a proper bow-hold got to throw it, and the Maestro would run and get it afterwards. Of course, that worked well for one day, and decently for another day, leaving us 9 bowholds short of 100.
Hildegard said that she has some ideas to try with the Tuck-a Bow. She has been working on some kind of assignment in which she interviews other Suzuki Teachers, and new plans came out of some of her interviews. Her string orchestra gave a concert last night. Riley went after the Maestro went to bed, and Hildr was SUPPOSED to go to bed.
Hildr has started having Cello practices. It's much taller than she is, and she can't keep her bow hand and her cello hand straight, but she loves pointing out the parts of the cello she knows. She has picked up the name of the scroll, and the neck. Pirfling is next, I think.
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