2nd Grade Rhythm Lessons 1-6

Each lesson is 30 minutes long.

LESSON 1 - Introduction
- Steady Beat
- Singing Voice
1. Sing School Song - patsching steady beat while singing
2. Music Room Rules / Announcements
3. Sing Character Counts

LESSON 2 - Rhythm
- Beat vs. Rhythm
- Singing / Talking Voices
- Movement
1. Sing School Song & Character Counts

2. Identification Chant - students patsch while I chant, and they gradually learn it

    - Teach chant. (Talking voice)

    - 1 student plays tubano on beat, then says name and plays rhythm of name. Class echoes with clapping.

3. BOOK: Muncha Muncha Muncha

   - Read book. 

   - Show rhythm cards. They clap.

4. Walk and Stop – with "bubbles" - add different locomotor movements.

LESSON 3 - Rhythm

- Beat vs. Rhythm

- Singing / Talking Voices

- Movement

1. Sing School Song & Character Counts
2. Identification Chant

    - Review chant.

    - Sitting, click feet together on beat, clap names

    - Students in circle, 3 students & drums in middle. Each student says name, class echoes.  I give them each a number: 1,2,3 – then after playing, they pick new person, tell person what number they are.

3. Students are put in a seating chart on the risers (up until now they were sitting in a circle on the floor).

4. Book: Muncha Muncha Muncha

   - Show rhythm cards. I say patterns, they echo and clap.

5. Walk and Stop – add different locomotor movements.

LESSON 4 - Rhythm
- Beat vs. Rhythm
- Singing / Talking Voices
1. Sing School Song & Character Counts

2. Book: Muncha Muncha Muncha

    - Review & add instruments (I name and demonstrate each one and explain the rule of instruments: if anyone plays when they are not supposed to, they lose the chance to play.)

                Tippy – maracas

                Spring – woodblocks

                Dig – guiros

                Dive – triangles

                Muncha – drums/tambourines

   - As time permits, switch instruments.

LESSON 5 - Rhythm
- Beat vs. Rhythm
- Singing / Talking Voices
- Movement

1. Character Counts

2. Hoops Activity: 
   - Put 8 “tas” on board:     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
   - Stick cards on board: snap, clap, pat, stamp
   - Turn on rock beat (on keyboard)
   - Choose student "conductors" while the class does the body percussion - the same colored card of the hoop that the student is standing in (about 6 students each day)

3. Beat = “ta” = hearts on board.

    - 8 hearts, they “ta”

    - Trade 2 “ta” hearts for “rest” hearts

    - Make pattern: 

  

    - Draw them with note heads = Name it: "quarter note"

4. Show them rhythm patterns - have them echo me "ta"

5. Bow Wow Wow

   - Show PowerPoint.

   - Teach song.

   - Movement/ Circle dance.

LESSON 6 - Rhythm
- Beat vs. Rhythm
- Singing / Talking Voices
- Movement
1. Character Counts

2. Hoops Activity - same as last lesson, choose more students to be "conductors"

3. PowerPoint Rhythms (see below)
   - Review (from 1st grade): quarter note, quarter rest, eighth notes
   - Teacher says rhythm pattern - always clapping rhythms also - students echo

4. Four White Horses – I sing words while they do beats.

5. BOOK: Catalina Magdalena

   - Read & Sing - students patsch beat

Rhythms 4 pics

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