Hi, it's Isaac here, finally posting on the group blog for once. MYEs are finally over! Anyways, I'll be posting for what happened during the last pratice (14 May). The whole team turned up this round, (Wen Ye, Benjamin, Benedict and me).
The choir came in at 3.07pm, and we began after a bit of delay. We first started with reintroductions (familiar slides much) and then proceeded to warm-ups. Wen Ye first got them to the write sitting position, then asked them to stand up instead. Then he proceeded to do the hissing warmup. The new slides were mainly pictures, so there was a small snake to represent a soft hiss, and a larger snake to represent a louder hiss, but I don't think the choir really quite got it at the start.
He then got the choir to do some running and jogging on the spot to warm-up themselves, then got them to do a "Whee~" glissando down the scale. He started on a soh. The choir then proceeded to make "bubble sounds" coupled with Wen Ye's nie underwater slide.
After that they had a little activity. Wen Ye would clap a sequence and the choir had to mimic it. They generally did gerat, and Shawn even gave a demo. The children really enjoyed it, and then we moved on to pitching.
We went to each individual choirister and asked them question abuot themselves like "What is you name?" or "How old are you?" by singing it in a tune (5-3-5-3). Most of them could reply, although some had problems fitting their answer in a tune, while some mistook the question "how old are you?" as "how are you?" We then recapped the "do mi soh" with them, and ask them which is higher, lower etc. We did everything in D major and Wen Ye didn't realize, and he even gave an "A" for a "mi" xD
Proceeded to Bugle's calling after that, we recapped the song with them, then tried to introduce the concept of multi parts (harmonization). At first, wenye would do a "mi" for the last note, then the rest did a "soh" or a "doh". After that, we split them into 3 groups and got each group to do either a "doh", "mi" or "soh" for the last note. My group was very quiet, had to coax them abit before they sang their note, which was "doh". We had a short break, and decided to swap the parts, so my group did a "mi" instead, which better.
After that, we got them to do the dog panting, then some star jumps, hopping on the spot, and some running, jumping and walking. Went through the school song, a few times to make sure they rememebered it, then we proceeded to teaching them moer of the scale (d - r - m - f- s).
They got confused a few times, but we managed to settle it, then we taught them "Stand up for Singapore". We tried to help them find their pitch by using the concept of steps, and also used to our hands to represent how high or low the note is. Then got them to play a game we'd liek to call "Clap Clap Jump" because they were getting tired, then went back to singing stand up for singapore. At this point, they started to sing louder!
We consolidated the lesson, and then ended off practice. Miss Phoon then gave us some feedback. She said that our slides this time was something "refreshing", but maybe we could start withan easier song instead of "Stand up for Singapore". I feel her words are qutie true, so next lesson we intend to teach them an easier song instead.
Typing off,
Isaac
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