Questions to Consider:

• How does a cello make sound?
• What family is the cello a part of? What smaller instrument is it modeled off of?
• How did the different excerpts (pieces of music) make you feel?
• Watch this video with a violin string in slow-motion. Was this what you expected the string to look like while being played?

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Fun at Home!

• Even if you don't have a cello or string instrument, you can make a sound like one!
• Step 1 - Get a ruler or paint stick, glue, stapler, a cereal box, and rubber bands.
• Step 2 - Glue the ruler/ paint stick halfway onto the cereal box. You want the stick to hang off the end of the box quite a bit. 
• Step 3 - Once the glue has dried, cut a piece of cardboard into a rectangle about 3 inches wide and 1.5 tall. This will be your bridge. Take your bridge and glue it a few inches underneath the end of your paint stick onto the cereal box. 
• Step 4 - Once the glue has dried, find four rubber bands (with different thicknesses if you can!). Cut the rubber bands so that they are long  strips. Staple one end of the strip to the paint stick and the other end to the cereal box so that the rubber bands rest on the bridge.
• Step 5 - Staple four different rubber bands onto your “violin” in the same way as before.
• Step 6 - Now that you have your violin, you can put your fingers on different parts of the paint stick/ ruler to play different pitches. To make sound, you can “pluck” your strings with your fingers. Happy playing!