Week 2 Assignment

1. Create a middle school warm-up

Relaxation and Alignment:
Directions: Ask students to stand nice and straight as if there was an imaginary line on
the top of their head pulling upwards. Then do a spinal stretch to reinforce a straight back
by extending their arms forward, interlocking their hands, and stretching forward and
downward to the floor while slowly bending the hips. Then, ask them to do a shoulder
roll followed by a head swing. In doing the swing, I will let them know not to roll head
backwards as this can result in the pinching of the cervical vertebrae. Lastly, make sure
they have their knees flexed and relaxed as opposed to locked and tense.
Minutes: 4 minutes
Resonance:
Vowel/Syllable Used: Oo and ee
Directions: Ask students to hum the given pitch (G4) while using the oo sound making
sure lips are closed but slightly extended and teeth slightly apart. Then, ask the students
to sing the same pitch with the ee sound but this time, the tip of the tongue touches the
bottom front teeth.
Range: G4 (G3 for male voices)
Minutes: 3 minutes
Phonation:
Directions: Each phrase of this exercise should be sung on one breath. The four measure
phrase challenges the singer to use good breath. Remind students to keep relax and lower
jaw and have lips nice and round. Ask students to use their hands to mimic the
descending and ascending pattern in order to help with phrasing.
Vowel/Syllable Used: Oo
Range: G3-G4 (depending on the needs of the class)

Minutes: 3 minutes
Agility and Expression:
Directions: Sing this exercise with special attention to the staccatos and the tenuto mark
at the very end of the measure.
Vowel/Syllable Used: Doo
Range: G3- G4

Minutes: 3 minutes
Diction:
Directions: Remind students to sing with a nice open sound with jaw slightly lowered
and relaxed.

Minutes: 3 minutes

2. High School Warm- Up (Grades 11-12)

Relaxation and Alignment:
Directions: Hello Class! Lets begin our warm-up by copying what I am doing. If you
can all try to reach as high to the celling as you can, then reach to the floor. Great class!
Now lets roll our shoulder three times forwards and backwards at your own speed. Next,
lets swing our heads from side to side and be careful not to roll your head back.
Wonderful class! Now, lets all pretend we were scared by something. What would our
faces look like?(wait for a response or two) Yes, we would have our eyebrows up, mouth
open and jaw lowered. Lets try acting as if we just got scared by something. Finally,
stretch your legs and make sure you arent locking your knees and that they are a
shoulder space apart. Great class! Lets move on.
Minutes: 5 minutes
Phonation and Registration:
Directions: Okay class, lets sing the following chord up and down using Oo ascending
and hoo or the top note and descending. (I will model for them what I want and have
them sing with me)
Range: A3-A4

Minutes: 4 minutes
Resonance:
Directions: Have class sing this exercise while paying cloes attention to the tone being
produced as well as remind them to have a nice, round mouth while having their back of
mouth open to get a good resonant tone.
Vowel/Syllable Used: mo, ma, mi
Range: F3- F4

Minutes: 3 minutes
Intonation:
Directions: Divide class in half. Then, start on C4 in unison and have one half go up by
half step and the other go down by half step until a P5 is reached. Finally, have class
come back up to C4
Vowel/Syllabus Used: Oo
Range: A3- E4
Minutes: 3 minutes

Diction:
Directions: We will sing through this exercise using the five primary vowels while
paying attention to where the tip of the tongue meets the lower front teeth. Make sure to
tell class to keep facial and tongue muscles relaxed.
Vowels/Syllable Usede: Five primary vowels: (na, ne, ni, no, nu)

Minutes: 3 minutes