Now I might be mistaken. I only took two years of violin lessons as an adult beginner, but I believe that the strings of the violin:

G D A E

...are strings:

1 2 3 4

If I'm incorrect in this belief, I would welcome being corrected.

Back to ukulele. The ukelele is an interesting little instrument. You tune your dog that has fleas again from that first string on up to the fourth, but the first string has a higher pitch than the second string, and that's pretty cool considering how orchestral bowed strings are set up from lowest to highest. That's not how you tune 'em. You usually being with the A string on the violin (the 3rd string if my numbering system is correct), and then you immediately tune the perfect 5th, D plus A, or the 2nd and 3rd string. I usually tuned the G-D 5th next, and finished up with the upper 5th, A-E. No dog; no fleas; just perfect 5ths.

But that ukulele is a cool little fellow. That first string is higher than the second; the first string is higher than the third string, too; but the fourth string is highest of all. Maryann Stuckmeyer taught me to tune a ukelele when I was only 13 years old, and she was 12. She taught me to play the Hawaiann War Dance or Love Song. I've forgotten which. And her very brief lesson has served me well these over 40 years. I taught my first graders how to sing 'My Dog Has Fleas"--and could play a string on the uke with their immediately singing back whether I was playing 'my' or 'dog' or 'has' or 'fleas.' They'll learn how to tune their own ukes by the end of January. Very simple process for the ones who can match pitch.

A couple of things (at least a couple of things) in music are ordered from bottom up:

The numbers of the lines and spaces go from bottom up rather than from top to bottom. We number the lines on a sheet of paper for quizzes and tests from top to bottom, but the music staff lines and spaces are numbered from bottom up. This can be confusing to kids unless you head 'em off at the pass and tell them, "Musicians number lines and spaces differently from how you number your test items." This helps the kids.

2. Chords. We build chords from bottom up before we start inverting them.

But I suppose those two points are completely tangential.

If I've got my violin strings backswards, please let me know...but I don't think so.

Edit: And I changed the spelling here for ukulele. Again, thanks, Faldage. This week you've taught me to spell ukulele and AnnaS has taught me to spell Chanel.