STEADY BEAT - LITTLE BO-PEEP

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them,
Leave them alone, and they'll come home
Wagging their tails behind them.

I thought this poem might offer a fun opportunity to reinforce the sixteenth-note rhythm patterns we have been working on in class -- tika-tika, ti-tika, and tika-ti.  I took white shape patterns of a sheep and wrote a variety of 1-beat rhythmic patterns on each sheep.  The patterns included the 3 above patterns as well as those previously being practiced -- quarter note (ta), quarter rest, 2 eighth-notes (ti-ti) and the half note (ta-o).

Once each sheep had a 1-beat rhythmic pattern, I laminated each sheep and put a magnet on the back for easy magnetic board use and manipulative floor work.

To do this, I adapted the poem to allow one sheep to be removed.

Little Bo-Peep lost her rhythm sheep,
And can't tell where to find them,
Leave them alone, and they'll come home
Wagging their tails behind them.



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