Upper KS2 & KS3 Warm ups and short songs

When warming up for singing, try to choose one warm-up from each section:  Physical/focus, Primal Sounds, Articulation, Pitching/Short songs

Physical / Focus

Rubber Chicken - Quick physical warmup to energise the class

I say Hip, You say Hop

HELLO - physical warmup

Hey you clappers - rhyme and physical warm up.

Chicka Chicka Cha Cha - rhythmic vocalisation warmup

Up shake shakety shake - rhyme and physical warm up.

Primal sounds

Simple vocalisations to get the class making sounds.

Simple vocalisations to get the class making sounds.

Articulation and vowels

Itsy Bitsy - articulation warmup with layered rhythms

Apples and Bananas warm-up (changes vowels for each verse).

Diction is done with the tongue and the teeth and the lips - scalic rhyme

Booty Booty (beatboxing warm-up)

Pitching

Counting warm-up

12345 tutorial - Tune of 'Knees up Mother Brown' to words "12345"

Gala Bingo

12345 performance

First you make your fingers click - simple song with internalisation (upper KS2)

Short songs, rounds and layer songs

Swing forwards, swing backwards/love lifts us up - two songs with movement

Mango Mango is a silly layered song.
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A warm up round using part of Dynamite.  Can be done in two or more parts.

Something's Singing performance

Ooh la la lay round

Crazy Moose - silly action call and response song

I walked to the End of the Road - bluesy round

A warm up using riffs from Queen songs which can be layered together.

A Keelie - African song with harmony part

My bonny lies over the ocean - with standing/sitting

Kumala Vista - a nonsense sound bluesy song (I think he pitches it a bit low!)

Something's Singing tutorial - short song with increasing dynamics/antiphonal verse

Oh how beautiful - very short round