CHANT SCHOLA PRACTICES

When alone or with others (your children will think it is fun), practice the following speech and singing exercises. Open wide your mouth and loosen your tongue. Breathe and speak naturally. Enunciate each word with absolute clarity. Remember to gird your loins!


I. DICTION DRILLS

• A-E-I-O-U (10 times)
• "HOW NOW BROWN COW" (10 times)

II. ELOCUTION EXERCISES

• "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" (10 times)
• "She sells sea shells by the seashore" (10 times)

III. MUSICALITY MOVEMENTS

• "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree." (10 times)
• "Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go." (10 times)

IV. UP AND DOWN USAGES

• Scales - sing a vowel sound going up and then down (10 times)
• "A - B - C" (10 times)

V. SINGING SONGS

• "Doe - a - deer" (YouTube clip) (10 times)
• Kyrie Eleison (mp3) (10 times)