PLC & SLC: Duration - RHYTHM

How do we represent the way we hear music? We can just keep a 'steady beat' ... OR we can give our music an interesting 'pattern of long and short sounds.' This is RHYTHM! 

For Levels F-2, we linked rhythm to our Little Learners Love Literacy program - especially since we have Literacy and Numeracy Week in Term 3. We used our 'robot arms' to split lyrics into syllables, and recognised which rhythm symbol matched each lyric.

• If a lyric has 1 syllable, we use TA, such as the fruit "grape."
• If a lyric has 2 syllables, we use TI-TI, such as the fruit "man-go."
• If a lyric has 4 syllables, we use TI-KA TI-KA, such as the fruit "wa-ter-me-lon."
• Challenge: If a lyric has 3 syllables, we use TRIOLA, such as the fruit "ba-na-na."

Students revisited the song 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to find that the rhythm has a repetitive pattern of "ti-ti... ti-ti... ti-ti... ta."
Whilst SLC practised the rhythm pattern of a French lullaby called 'Frere Jacques' on xylophones, and created their own rhythm pattern to a poem called 'Old Mother Witch,' PLC revisited the skill of body percussion (clapping, stomping, tapping, clicking), to match the rhythm of Madagascar's 'I Like to Move It.' By the end of these sessions, students could recognise and create rhythm patterns.