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Beginning Choir
Miss Gilleland

OVERVIEW, PURPOSE, & ASSESSMENT

This week we are continuing to prepare for assessment! This includes

strengthening our two songs and improving our sight reading skills.

The purpose of this rehearsal is to continue to improve our musicality in the

pieces. This includes adding/adjusting things such as our dynamics, blend,
balance, tone/approach, etc.

STANDARDS

HCB.1 – The student will read and notate music

● b) reading rhythmic patterns that include whole notes, dotted half notes,
half notes, dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth
notes, eighth-note and quarter-note triplets, and corresponding rests
● e) sight-singing eight-measure, stepwise melodic patterns, using do, re, mi,
fa, sol and maintaining a steady beat

HCB.3 – The student will exhibit vocal techniques and choral skills

● a) using proper posture for choral singing

● b) using breathing techniques that support vocal production
● d) developing vocal independence, agility, and range by singing
appropriate vocal exercises
● e) demonstrating proper diction (i.e., pure vowel sounds, diphthongs,
consonants)
● f) blending with other singers on the same vocal part and across sections,
using correctintonation
● g) singing an assigned vocal part in simple harmony in an ensemble

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MATERIALS NEEDED

1. Piano
2. Sight Reading Factory Account
3. Music: How Can I Keep from Singing, Bashana Haba’ah, and The Cuckoo

LESSON

Students will enter the classroom and find their assigned seat based on their
voice parts.

A. Warm-up (10 min)

○ Stretch
○ Vowels: opening from a hum
○ Range: I love to sing
○ Breath: lip trills
○ Diction: bibbity boppity
B. Sight Singing (15 min)
○ Have students come stand on other side of the room, facing the
projector
○ Open up sight reading factory (SAB level 3)
○ Clap the rhythms together (SA and keep steady beat)
○ Remind students they only get ONE minute and to start singing
immediately
○ Establish key
○ Students practice the example for one minute
○ Establish the key once again
○ Students sing the sight reading example
○ Ask students to raise their hands and say what went well and what
we need to fix/improve on from time singing the example through.
○ Tell students what to specifically focus on this next time (singing
intervals, clapping rhythms, specific measures, etc.)
○ Students sing sight reading example again
i. Repeat steps above on another sight reading example
C. How Can I Keep from Singing
○ Practice transitions like last class (1st and 2nd) and add working on

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 3rd transition to the end
D. Bashana Haba’ah
○ Ask students what we worked on last class (contrasting dynamics,
/spacious singing)
○ Sing from beginning (with music)
○ Adjust things I hear as we go along and try to play less parts on
piano for their independence
E. The Cuckoo (15-20 min)
○ Practice claps!
○ Remind students about constants (beginning and ending) AND
spacious vowels
○ Sing through
○ Sing through entire piece with accompaniment track