Try to alter your normal speaking range. Listen carefully as you speak during the course of the first day. When we don't pay good attention to how we use our speaking voices, we usually default to our lower registers. To increase your range upwards, add a "lilt" to your speaking style, or you might mimic the voice of a person younger than yourself, or you could even pretend to yourself that you're in a very happy, giddy mood. Use whatever works to get yourself to speak in overall higher tones. Remember, speaking uses your vocal cords just like singing, so the way you speak might improve your singing style.
Start working on your singing while speaking in a "higher voice", if you can. If you know how to do vocal exercises, start creeping up the scale a little every day. However, if you usually just sing regular songs, pick a song that is just a little uncomfortably high for you, and limit yourself to singing it gently and softly about 3 times per day. You stretch your vocal cords to sing higher notes, so you must sing them softly. Remember that voices are made of muscle, and it will take time to teach your muscles a new trick.
Avoid singing the low notes for a while during the adjustment process. Try not to lose your lower notes completely, but don't practice them too much, as that will strain your already hard-working new muscles.
Ask to be moved from the alto section of the choir or group to the 2nd soprano parts. That's the lowest voiced sopranos, and a good place to start.
Start singing high notes until eventually you can hit them.
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