Prep Check In!

Hello Preps! I wanted to come on here and share some resources to help support your learning at home. I absolutely love learning music with you! We started with a new (temporary) hello song for this month.

"Jambo Sana" is a swahili greeting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaHDh2nDYsY

As we prepare for a few events this term, we are building up our repertoire and practice definitely makes progress! Below are some things to help our youngest choristers learn their music!

Be A Light (with Juniors)

use code: c793225

Accompaniment Track.mp3

Download MP3 • 7.32MB

Notation Video

Singing Rainbow (Preps and SS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDmXtpjBzPMeY&v=mXtpjBzPMeY

Singing Rainbow

We all sing with the same voice (altered)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwzbFIHt6sE

We will also be working with our wonderful ORFF instructor Adam for the next few weeks to prepare for our ORFF SHOWCASE. More to come on that soon!

Kind Regards,

Mike Colla

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

Preparatory Recap!

Hello Prep Families!

I hope your week is fun filled and music filled. We had a great day on Monday in the studio! Lots of energy! We were developing our sense of low and high sounds with some tracing graphics and we looked at Vicky Weber's "Rhythm Rescue" where we clapped Ta and Ti-ti rhythms to give tala her superpowers. We then created rhythms for our own super powers!

After our theory lesson we continued onto our snowy rep and reviewed "Snowman, Where'd you go" and our second piece "Snow is Falling" which will be a partner song with our Junior friends.

Please note we have started our fundraiser Sweets for Singers. Check online to see what sweet treats you can tell your family and friends about. Highest seller wins a Viva hoodie!

Thanks for lending your voices!

Mike Colla