Like everyone else, I’m in the last few days of school. My students last day is June 5th and we have a workday on June 6th. One of my chores is to get my computers in order. As part of that chore, I found these pictures taken earlier this year (sometime in February/March) My second graders were writing a rhythm composition using quarter, eighth and rests.
I made a BIG deal about being composers, and gave them special paper. We folded the paper four times so that we had 16 boxes (beats).
I then told them that they could draw a quarter note in any 8 boxes of their choosing.
Then I told them to write 4 sets of eighth notes in 4 boxes of their choosing.
I made a BIG deal about the “blank” spaces and suggested that they could either fill in the remaining four boxes with quarter notes or eighth notes OR they could draw a rest in each empty box.
They were so proud of themselves and took great delight in sharing their rhythm compositions with each other.
Like everyone else, I’m in the last few days of school. My students last day is June 5th and we have a workday on June 6th. One of my chores is to get my computers in order. As part of that chore, I found these pictures taken earlier this year (sometime in February/March) My second graders were writing a rhythm composition using quarter, eighth and rests.
I made a BIG deal about being composers, and gave them special paper. We folded the paper four times so that we had 16 boxes (beats).
I then told them that they could draw a quarter note in any 8 boxes of their choosing.
Then I told them to write 4 sets of eighth notes in 4 boxes of their choosing.
I made a BIG deal about the “blank” spaces and suggested that they could either fill in the remaining four boxes with quarter notes or eighth notes OR they could draw a rest in each empty box.
They were so proud of themselves and took great delight in sharing their rhythm compositions with each other.