Halloween Rhythm Activities LEVEL 1 : Quarter Note And Rest, Eighth Notes Joined

Look at all the “treats” in this set of Halloween Rhythm activities! Practice and play rhythms for a “spooky” good time in your elementary music class. Level 1 Halloween Rhythm Activities includes tons of interactive materials to teach your younger elementary music students the quarter note, eighth note and quarter rest. The Halloween themed play along rhythm video, teaching presentation, flash cards, worksheets and google slides activities provide diverse learning opportunities for your students to have fun learning rhythms. This Halloween Rhythm L1 set of activities and materials will keep your classes from getting too scary! Great for whole class and Stations!

OVERVIEW:

Google Apps: Students love moving the images into the boxes to create their very own rhythm patterns. Keep engagement high in your virtual classes using interactive google slides activities. Keep on teaching rhythms, practice, assess using the presentation, video and google slides drag and drop activities.

These materials make a great SUB lesson with video, worksheets, flashcards presentation and google slides activities.

The teaching pages are packed with examples and practice pages for students to say and play rhythms. First students learn one sound on the beat. Then practice saying and playing the quarter note patterns using the pictures. The next section introduces joined eighth notes with pictures, notes and words.

After practicing the joined eighth notes there are mixed patterns with varying combinations of quarter and eighth notes. Next, students will learn the quarter rest. And finally put all the rhythms together.

Please watch the preview to see the bright colorful images and a sample of the presentation.

CONCEPTS:

Quarter, Eighth, and Quarter Rest Note Values

Play Rhythms

Play and Say Sounds and Rhythms

Create Rhythms

Match Sounds to Rhythms

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

TEACHING DIRECTIONS and ACTIVITIES

VIDEO Practice 4 beat rhythm patterns using quarter and eighth notes.

PRESENTATION- Teach and practice playing quarter and eighth notes using the teaching pages and practice rhythms. 3 Sections: Quarter notes, 1 joined eighth note patterns, 2 joined eighth note patterns.

Presentation in pdf for printing.

FLASHCARDS of notes with the action

Mini Printable B/W cards to cut and paste into the worksheets

FLASHCARDS of each slide in the presentation

WORKSHEETS Write the Rhythms for quarter, quarter/eighth, quarter/eighth/quarter rest

GOOGLE SLIDES ACTIVITIES: Practice creating rhythms, match rhythms to sounds.

CREATE A RHYTHM TEMPLATES for the teacher to use to create their own rhythms. Digital Graphics are included for the teacher to use.

GOOGLE SLIDES ACTIVITY:

Drag and Drop Rhythm Pattern Activity-Match the sounds

Drag and Drop Rhythm Pattern Activity- Match the rhythms

Create your own rhythms with quarter & eighth note versions.

Write in the rhythms using the templates.

“SPOOKY” poster to congratulate students on completing the activities.

TEACHING IDEAS:

Use the presentation to review rhythms and introduce the concepts.

Be sure to have students “say and play” the rhythms and sounds/words.

You may need to review one class time and then continue the next class to complete the activities.

Students may need more practice too.

Drag and Drop Activities- do these as a class first to demonstrate how to do the activity.

Assign or offer the create your own activities as needed.

Use the REWARD poster to celebrate learning.

USE THIS RESOURCE:

Rhythm Activities LEVEL 1 : Quarter Note & Rest, Eighth Notes Joined can easily be used as a SUB LESSON and to create STATIONS.

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