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How To Use This Warm Up View: Warm Up | Variation & Progression

Listen up!

Listen to and then learn the call-and-response chorus together.

Tactics

This warm-up requires good breath and support technique, so concentrate on this.
First verse – hot potato: pant as if with hot food in your mouth, waving your hand to cool your mouth!
Second verse – mashed potato: breathe deeply, without raising the shoulders, mashing imaginary potatoes in time with your breathing.
Third verse – chipped potato: say the following, really working on the mouth and keeping in time. Invent a chopping action with your hands to accompany it! ‘Chip and chop and chip and chop and …’ etc.
Fourth verse – baked potato: make the following appreciative noises ‘yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy…’ etc. Why not rub your tummy whilst you sing?

Warm Up Information and Tags

This is a fun call and response warm-up to really get you going! It’s also good for getting a class’ attention. It’s a physical warm up that energises the body and lifts the soft palate. It also encourages deep breathing and works the mouth.

Key stage KS2

Year group 3, 4, 5, 6

Subject Music, Physical education

Copyright/Public domain (PD) Copyright songs (c)

Musical format Unaccompanied, Call-and-response

Lyrics/Song Sheets

Hot potato! (melody line)

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Teaching Song Guides

Hot potato! (notes and activities)

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Comments about Hot potato!

Mrs Harris Report this comment

Posted 27th Sep 2011 09:23

This is great for phonics too! :)

Miss Summers Perschky Report this comment

Posted 29th Jan 2011 11:35

My year 3 class love this warm up.We do it all the time when we do music .

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Posted 7th Oct 2010 07:34

My choir of adults uses this as a warm-up and we love it. My 6 year has just learnt it at school he loves it too!

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