Introducing...Beat, Rhythm, and Tempo...to Kids!

INTRODUCING…
BEAT, RHYTHM & TEMPO…TO KIDS!
Sharon Burch
Elementary Music Education
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INTRODUCTION: TEMPO, BEAT, AND RHYTHM
1. Divide the children into a “BEAT” group and a “RHYTHM” group to
interact with the story.
2. Each student in the BEAT group given two rhythm sticks;
Each student in the RHYTHM group given a shaker.
3. Practice their part before beginning the following story.
4. FREDDIE THE FROG AND THE MYSTERIOUS WAHOOOOO Book/CD
by Sharon Burch/illustrator, Tiffany Harris
5. After the story, extend the lesson by keeping the BEAT.
• PLAY JAM TRACKS or direct a beat.
• PRACTICE the beat with each track.
6. CREATE a new four-count rhythm pattern using the MAGNETIC
RHYTHM SET or TEMPO ISLAND RHYTHM game at
www.FreddieTheFrog.com
7. PRACTICE your new RHYTHM.
8. PLAY JAM TRACKS
9. PRACTICE your new rhythm with each track.
10. Divide the kids into Elis (keep the beat) and Freddies (play and chant the rhythm
pattern) together.
11. Challenge by adding bobaloo baboons (dance the beat using feet on ti-tis; hands
on tas), orangutan-tangs (play hand drums).
12. Teacher is leader Purple Tempo Trunk announcing Andante, Allegro, Largo,
Presto.
Online Game and Coloring Sheets - www.FreddieTheFrog.com
GAMES: TEMPO, BEAT, AND RHYTHM
Tempo Game, created by the puppet, of course! (Nat’l. St.: 2a, 5c)
1. Review Tempo Game
2. Freddie interrupts; he wants to play a game.
3. Tempo flashcards—andante, allegro, largo, presto, and fine
4. Future lesson: Add Freddie playing the hand drum—name the tempo and step
to the beat.
5. Accelerando and ritardando
6. Game Option: Fine/Freeze. Do the wrong one and you are out.
7. Game Option 2: Call any tempo term. Do the wrong one and you are out.
“Bulldog” variation from New England Dancing Masters, Jump, Jim Joe (Nat’l. St.: 1b, 1c, 1e, 6e)
• After playing as a large group, divide into small groups.
• Establish rotation order.
• At the end of each “bulldog,” the one person that is “out” moves to the
next group in the rotation.
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FREDDIE’S MYSTERY SONG 1
Solve the Mystery? Play the Game
(Engine, Engine)
s s
m m s s
s
s s
m m s
s
s
Engine, Engine, Number Nine, Going Down the Railroad Line.
s
s m m s s
s
s s
If the train goes off the track, Will I
Engine, Engine Game
Similar rotation to Bulldog
using two fists to tap two fists.
s
s s
s
s
get my money back?
RHYTHM PATTERNS WITH CRAFT STICKS
1. Students sit in a circle on the floor with a rhythm instrument, set of craft
sticks, and one pipe cleaner or mallet each to create rhythm patterns.
Use pipe cleaners/mallets to create bar lines.
2. Connect rhythm patterns with bar lines to create rhythm pieces.
3. Each student chant and tap their rhythm pattern to the beat in sequential order.
4. Play a jam track. Chant and tap rhythm patterns again.
5. Ask part of the students to pat the beat while the rest chant/tap rhythm
patterns.
6. Replace patting and tapping with instruments.
7. Rotate instruments. Count off the rotation.
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS K-3
MATHEMATICS
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
Asking the students the right questions is an essential part of the learning process. Questions are
the easiest way to incorporate the Common Core State Standards in the area of K-3
Mathematics while teaching music. Students are more engaged in every moment of the lesson
when using questions in the process.
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POPSICLE STICKS
Follow these four steps each time. Different types of music learning and processing happens at each step.
STEP 1. PLAY THE GAME
STEP 2. SOLVE THE MYSTERY SONG
STEP 3. POPSICLE STICKS
STEP 4. REPEAT, PLAY THE GAME
FREDDIE’S MYSTERY SONG 2
Solve the Mystery? Play the Game
(Closet Key)
d d m m d d m d d
I have lost my closet key in my
m m r m
lady’s garden.
d d m m d d m d d
I have lost my closet key in my
m m r d
lady’s garden.
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Easily change lyrics for holidays, such as, “I have lost my valentine in my
music classroom,” or “I have lost my lucky charm in my music classroom.”
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LYRICS:
We are playing in the forest
For the wolf is far away.
Who knows what will happen to us
If he finds us at our play.
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ASSESSMENT: RHYTHM PATTERN, NOTATION AND BEAT
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Notation: Craft Stick Rhythm Patterns
Rhythm Dictation: Craft Stick Rhythm Patterns
Reading Rhythm Patterns correctly and performing correctly: Magnetic
Rhythm Board or Online Game
Observing keeping a beat while playing the Tempo Island Game
MORE CLASSROOM FAVORITES
“Jig” from New England Dancing Masters CD
(New England Dancing Masters Productions, 2000)
Apple Tree Game –folk song
S
s
m
s
s
m
s s
l
l
s
s
m
Ap-ple tree. Ap-ple tree. Will your ap-ple fall on me?
I won’t cry. I won’t pout. If your apple knocks me out.
“Down in the Valley” from Down in the Valley CD
(New England Dancing Masters Productions, 2000)
“Bobolinka” from Down in the Valley CD
(New England Dancing Masters Productions, 2000
Miss Mary Mack
adapted by Mary Ann Hoberman/illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott
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