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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Blue Green Yel--low Red

This week, kindergarten students learn how color words make rhythms! Using small bingo chips, we worked on simple color/rhythm patterns first, then they got to compose their own 8-beat patterns and perform them for the class (look at it, speak it, and clap it). This is a great intro to notated rhythm for pre-music literacy. Some colors get one sound (quarter note) and some colors get two sounds (barred eighth notes).

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