Monday October 27, 2025

1. Welcome to Hannah! It's great having another great chorister in the Junior Choir!

2. The Prep Choir rehearsed with the Juniors today. Mike reminded us of the text in Snowman, where did you go?" Good work learning the text to the song. Sing along to this recording. https://youtu.be/Bu9Jz-L7OmM?si=XovD1kr4p5tBttZ7

3. Snow is Falling - on "Still, Still" be light on the second quarter note. This is almost memorized. Follow along with this choir as you practice each line. https://youtu.be/DSsPvnPpNnE?si=0rds5ZD7tjBhyi1T

4. If the Snow Could Sing - this is almost memorized as well. Look over the text. You can use this recording when you practice - https://youtu.be/Z0Z-p_YwXtc?si=hfq5N1LGa2JAuP_1

5. Please listen to instructions and comments during rehearsal. It's important to listen to whomever is talking so that we don't repeat questions during the rehearsal.

6. Remember to do your one page in your theory books.

7. HAPPY HALLOWE'EN and GO JAYS GO!

And we're back

I could tell it is a Blue Jays night in Toronto...the energy was very high today in choir!

1. Adam came in and listened to our musical creations from Music Camp. We will work on these for our Orff presentation in the new year.

2. See if you can write words to go with your percussive sounds - What is the song of the fir tree? How would the Fir tree feel knowing someone wanted to carve him? What would the villagers say? Use these ideas to think of a poem or a few lines to add to your music.

3. Welcome to Hannah! It was great having you visit today! I hope you come back and join us each week!

4. Next week, I will have a new seating chart - more to go with your voice type but also to stop some of the chatting during rehearsal time.

5. Please do one page in your theory books.

6. See if you can memorize "Snow is Falling".

7. Keep selling the Sweet Treats for our fundraiser.

8. Have a great week - Go Jays Go!

Prep Recap and Thanksgiving

Hello Prep Families!

Last Monday we had a wonderful rehearsal with our prep team where we finished our story "Rhythm Rescue" and developed more rhythm compositions! Our Rhythms give us power just lie Tala in our story!

Afterwards, our students were learning and reviewing our repertoire for our December Concert! Excited to sing our snowy songs for you!

OCTOBER is our SWEETEST month! We have started up our fundraiser and need your help! Share, Like, Eat goodies from our Sweets for Singers selections! Chocolate, tea, coffee, PANKCAKES and more. These selections make great gifts or guilty pleasures and we encourage you to embrace it! Follow the link for products:

Sweets for Singers

Next week there will be no rehearsal on Monday for Thanksgiving but on behalf of Ipek, Karen, myself, and the whole VIVA family we want to say we our thankful for our littlest singers and hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving long weekend!

Till we sing again,

Mike

Prep Choir Conductor