Christmas Rhythms

Christmas break has come and gone and I didn't get any blogging done! So here I sit the first day back with a ton of posts to catch up on. Oh well!

The Kindergarteners are still working on long and short rhythm patterns. I will soon be introducing them to ta and ti-ti. To give them practice writing rhythms, I made a bunch of tree/present, elf/reindeer, hat/mitten manipulatives for them to work with. They created a 4-beat pattern and then wrote the correct rhythm underneath. I did the same activity in 1st grade, only they wrote the tas (quarter notes) and ti-tis (eighth note pairs).

Tree, present, tree, present=long, short-short, long, short-short

Mittens, hat, mittens, hat=short-short, long, short-short, long