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"Music students at William R. Davie Elementary have been
tapping, clapping, and stamping to the steady beat as the school year
got under way" reports Mike Barnhardt.
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Kinders enjoyed singing with their animal friends in “Good
Day” as they learned what the animals really say when they get up in
the morning. They added their own verses, experimented with high and low
voices, and played rhythm sticks to the repeated patterns in the song.
They were also jamming to
“Bluegrass Jamboree” as they found new ways to
make sounds with their rhythm sticks.
Lou Wilson’s first grade students tuned up their listening
ears as they played “Step the Beat” while following all kinds of silly
rhyming directions. They moved to the polite game, “How Do You Do?”
while comparing steady beat to a repeated rhythm pattern.
Second graders reviewed quarter note, eighth note and half
note rhythms with the poem, “I Had A Loose Tooth.” They loved adding
instruments to specific word patterns in the poem and figuring out which
rhythm pattern they were playing.
Third and fourth grade students have been busy with rhythm
reviews. Working with partners, they tested their knowledge of note
values, and their movement skills as they played and sang a “Welcome
Back to School” game. Using these skills, they moved on to following a
musical score and creating their own movements to “Give It a Rest”.
Rhythm rounds started the year for the fourth grades as they performed
“School, School” as a two-part round with movement, then with unpitched
percussion instruments. Each line of the poem used note values that were
a review to the students and challenged them with new 16th notes.
Source: Davie Enterprise Record
