Rehearsal Summary - March 18

We had a great time today welcoming everyone back from the March Break!

Here is a quick summary.

1. Welcome Song (thanks for leading this Theo!)

2. Warm Up

   1. body (thanks for the ideas for the stretches Townsend!)

   2. "stand up" song

   3. vocal warmups -- focus was on scales (descending) and also introduced a new 'evil laugh' warm up ('eeee ah ha ha!')

3. Sharing Time -- would you like to share something about your March Break?

4. Everybody Has a Light to Shine

   1. reviewed verse 2

   2. memorized verse 2

   3. heard intro, then sang verse 1, chorus, verse 2, chorus

5. Penguin Waltz

   1. reviewed verse 1

6. Movement with Adam - Rhythm Playground

   1. VIVA! chant

   2. Acka Backa hand game

   3. Front to Front movement game

7. Junior Choristers visited

8. Goodbye Song and Announcements
   

Remember that next week is our Creation Showcase & Bring a Friend to Choir Day!

Invite a friend to join us and get excited to share our singing with the community. :)

February 26th Rehearsal

Wonderful work today. Here are your reminders for the week:

1. Thank you for those of you who came early for theory help. Please remember that your assigned page(s) should be completed before you arrive.

2. Celeste, Ottley and I will be at rehearsal at 4:30 for any questions and help with theory.

3. Gifts - great work on memorizing this piece! - tell the text - make sure I can hear the full word especially ending consonants - use tall vowel sounds

4. Kahkiyaw Oskâyak (All the Young People) - call/response lesson; - thank you Celeste for your help with the Cree text - the melody is repetitive - the text will take time to learn - good start on this song

5. Orff with Adam - please remember and practice the body percussion and words that you learned from Adam See you next week!

Rehearsal Summary - February 27

Hello! We had a great rehearsal yesterday. It was so wonderful to see the Preps again after a few weeks away -- you made great progress with Simon, Ipek, Jo, and Julie!

Here is a quick summary of yesterday's rehearsal.

1. Welcome song

2. Warm-Up

   1. stand up, feet apart

   2. sighs and sirens

   3. echo singing various melodic patterns (esp. so-mi, and do-re-mi-fa-so patterns) with pure vowels plus movement cues (for "ah," "oo", "ee" and "oh")

3. Everybody Has a Light to Shine

   1. reviewed chorus with actions

   2. identifying vowels "shine" --> "ah" and making connections to gesture from warm-up

   3. reviewed verse 1 text

   4. learned verse 2 text

4. Circle time: The More We Get Together

   1. body percussion with 3/4 time in A Section

   2. pointing actions for B Section

   3. added singing

5. Penguin Ball (full song)

   1. body percussion with 3/4 time

   2. identifying timing of ending consonant "T" using body percussion

   3. reviewed song

   4. students created movement "whirling and dipping"

      1. one arm movement with curves in the air and then dip down

   5. students created movement "sliding and slipping"

      1. one arm fully extended, slowly rise up and then down

6. Movement and Orff with Adam!

   1. Acka Backa

   2. Back to back, side to side game

   3. VIVA movement chant

   4. VIVA is our playground (writing activity)

7. Goodbye Song