Many teachers in our blog community have been playing Rhythm Round About for years. After I posted it in last week’s Throwback Thursday, I realized there is another part to this game that I’ve never posted. When my older students first saw
Many teachers in our blog community have been playing Rhythm Round About for years. After I posted it in last week’s Throwback Thursday, I realized there is another part to this game that I’ve never posted. When my older students first saw the board in my studio they wanted to play it, but of course it was too easy for them. So I made some more cards so they could play. I thought I had posted them, but as it turns out, I never did.
So today I am posting the extra cards for Rhythm Round About. These cards have rhythm patterns for students to count, and then move to the correct note value on the board. There are cards for beginning to more advanced levels! But you will especially like that I included triplets, dotted quarter notes, dotted eighth notes, and sixteenth notes, as well as corresponding rests. Now your older students can enjoy a fast and fun game, and count some rhythms as they play. And your beginners can count easy rhythms. If we can get our students counting challenging rhythms, then they will not be among the many adults who play an instrument if only they could figure out the rhythm!
When playing student-teacher games, there is one thing I often do when the game is not quite a game of “chance.” I’ll tell the student before-hand that I might make a few mistakes when I call out my answer. If they find the mistakes, they get to take two turns. This keeps students