Welcome to Music at The Wheatlands!!

We're so glad to see you!! This blog will post many different things this year including pictures of things we are doing in the classroom, kid projects for your listening and laughing pleasure, and a bunch of different updates through the year. The Grade Level Links on the top bar will take you to information about our curriculum and things that we will be focusing on in music throughout the year! There are also music games for the kids to play around with, videos for the kids to watch on various topics, and a kid safe music search engine! I hope you have a wonderful school year!! SRains@sd308.org

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

First Grade Rhythm Games

We have been having a BLAST learning about rhythms in first grade so far!!  We've been playing lots of games with our rhythm learning.  Check out some of them down below:


In this game, the kids are making caterpillars with partners based on cards that tell them directions like "Make an 8 beat rhythm" and "Make a rhythm that repeats"



In this game, the kids actually grow their "train" to see how long they can clap.  They also do a game where one student claps a card and the rest of the group has to slap the rhythm they clapped.


This is a picture of us learning how to create rhythms.  We use hearts to show our beats in first through fourth grade here at The Wheatlands!


This might look like BINGO, but we were working on dictation with this game.  I would clap a rhythm and each pair would try to find the rhythm on their BINGO cards.  They did such an awesome job at this!