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Saturday, February 2, 2013

STEADY BEAT - RHTYHM HEARTS

This week's activity is coming directly from the classroom.  My GR 3 students are working with tika-tika -- so, in the spirit of Valentine's Day, I gave each child a set of 9 hearts.  Each heart has a 4-beat rhythm pattern on it.  The children are asked to place the hearts in a 3x3 pattern on the floor.  After the children have placed their hearts on the floor, I say, say-play, and play a 4-beat pattern that includes the sixteenth-note rhythm.  They have to find the heart and turn it over.

After 9 rhythm patterns have been played, and all of the rhythms are face down, they turn to the closet partner and put their 9 hearts together to create a match-up game.  As one child takes the turn, the other child must say-say/play-play the rhythms that are revealed.  The children have fun working together and the teamwork and team-teaching has been beneficial in their literacy.

Hope this is useful.  My classes have had a lot of fun playing the "game" and it's made review work enjoyable for them.

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1 comment:

  1. Love the idea of the Memory Game with the rhythms! I'm going to use this activity with my 2nd grade classes on Thursday, so I'm home today (Lincoln's Birthday) writing rhythms on the hearts I cut yesterday afternoon. Thanks for the inspiration.

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