Elizabeth T Gavin N 4/11/14 Supervised Lesson Plan

Tomorrow is my supervised lesson with Cindy, and I want to continue working on jaw, neck and shoulder tension with Gavin.  I really liked the exercises I did last week:

            [baaaaa] 54321 upside down, dangling the neck

            [baaaa i] 53421 focusing on dropping the jaw for both vowels

            [jajajajaja] 54321, focusing on dropping the jaw for each and every note

I realized that the upside down thing is really helping his neck release, so I think we need to do a lot of that throughout the lesson today.  I just need to make sure that we take breaks, because I don’t want him to get lightheaded.  I might also add that while upside down, he needs to swing his arms back and forth.  I want to try some gorilla-like swinging, dancing, to get him all loosened up.  I need to up the ante with releasing his body. 

            I want to make sure his tongue isn’t retracting as well, so I think I’ll add some [u] vowel today, but make sure his jaw is dropped.  If he can’t drop his jaw while doing [u], I’ll try [o].  Just doing [a] all the time might not be a good idea.   

            We’ll see how it goes!