My daughter's music school is getting the junior windband and the junior string orchestra to join together for the summer term in a "symphony orchestra," as my daughter proudly announced. (A slightly unbalanced symphony orchestra as she is the only cellist ).

Anyway, she has been given some music to practise during the holidays and the first rehearsal will be before her next cello lesson. One of the pieces has the following passage in slow 2/4
bottom A (crotchet, two quavers), G (crotchet, two quavers), F (crotchet, quaver) F# quaver, G crotchet, G one octave higher crotchet.

My daughter wanted to finger it 1st finger A, open string G, 4th finger F, slide up with 4th finger to F#.
She has learnt to shift into 2nd and 4th positions, neither of which are much use here.

I wondered whether to let her continue sliding with her 4th finger or (on the principle that know that she understands how shifting works she can shift anywhere) whether to get her to shift to 3rd position so she could (I think I've got this right) play F with her 1st finger, F# with her 2nd and G with her 3rd.

Any advice?

Trying to work this out...I'm doing my G5 but am rubbish at position work... After thinking for a long while I wouldn't shift into 3rd position because the piece is slow and it would be much easier to do an extension with her 4th finger on the C string to play the F# as it is the only really awkward note. You could shift, I just think it would be easier not to and to play in tune without doing so. However, I would check with her teacher after the rehearsal just to see as I may be talking rubbish. Hope this helps.