

That was a huge upgrade from letting my students do "whatever" while they stood in line to bring their instruments to me for 10+ minutes. It did take me YEARS to figure out that I could have the students play along with their method book CD while I walk around and tune their instruments.

Well, that is a slight exaggeration, but these exercises DO fix my BIGGEST PROBLEMS with teaching my beginning string class, which is getting everyone's instrument tuned up without wasting a ton of class time.

I believe in the trilogy of faith, hope, and charity, and in the dignity of labor finally, I believe that through these and education true democracy may come to the world.This set of Warm-Up ("Start-Up") exercises is a LIFE SAVER! It is magical! I believe in that clear thinking and straight speaking which conquers envy, slander, and fear. I believe in chivalry that protects the weak and preserves veneration and love for parents, and in the physical strength that makes that chivalry effective. I believe in civil and religious liberty and in freedom of thought and speech. I believe in education, patriotism, justice, and loyalty. I believe that a nation should be made up of people who individually possess clean, strong bodies and pure minds who have respect for their own rights and the rights of others and possess the courage and strength to redress wrongs and, finally, in whom self-consciousness is sufficiently powerful to preserve these qualities. Roosevelt (Janu– April 12, 1945) among them – massed for a Camp session. In August 1917, President Woodrow Wilson (Decem– February 3, 1924), his Cabinet – Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. The full set of exercises consisted of moves Camp labeled: “hands, hips, head, grind, grate, grasp, crawl, curl, crouch, wave, weave and wing.” The routine would stir “the unseen and usually unremembered muscles” and increase “your resistance to fatigue, your grace and muscular coordination and poise”. Navy Training Camps’ Physical Development Program in 1917, just after the USA had joined the fray of World War 1, Camp created a brisk 15-minute sequence of calisthenic motions as “a substitute for the normal activities of mankind in the primitive state”. When Walter Camp (Ap– March 14, 1925) wasn’t developing the ruled of American Football he was extolling the virtues of his ‘Daily Dozen’, a series of ritual exercises to keep every American in tip-top physical shape.
