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I just finished some really adorable slides for the song "2, 4, 6, 8." This song is awesome for teaching rhythm as the "way the words go" or in your prepare/present/practice of ti-ti.

Here's a preview of some of the slides and student worksheets:

Title Page

Lyrics

Icons for steady beat- I use these before I introduce the heart beat, if I am preparing steady beat.

Lyrics added: 

Now with heart beats:

Heartbeats plus lyrcis.

Icons for "the way the words go", rhythm, and visually preparing ta and ti-ti.

I have also come up with the following student worksheets that are great for tracking the steady beat, and pre-reading ta and titi with "long and short". Print one for each student or print and laminate a class set to reuse. 

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Skipping Rope Song

My kids really enjoy this song. I bring it out when preparing/presenting/practicing ti-tiri by isolating just the last line of the song.

We play the jump rope game that goes with it, substituting "Ella" for the name of the kid jumping in. When the people spinning the rope sing your name, you get to run in and jump. If they make it past 4 letters, we just continue counting regularly in a speaking voice.

This song makes an appearance again when we work on tiri-ti. I think they are a little surprised that there was an unknown rhythm in this song since we just isolated the last line previously.

It also is great for reading fa!

 Lyrics:

 Steady beat (this also helps to make sure that the jump rope is being spun steadily!):

 Rhythmic icons:

 Known rhythms plus icons for new rhythm:

 Introducing our new rhythm. After, I immediately follow with practice reading this rhythm from flashcards and other songs.

 Stick notation with solfa- new note

 Someone new has moved into Meldoy Street

 Icons for pitch with lyrics:

 Icons for pitch with solfege - new note:

 Icons on staff:

 After we learn fa, I have repeats of those last slides with fa filled in as the mystery note (both on and off the staff) Below it is pictured on the staff:

Finally we get to read it from the staff in standard notation!



The whole download is available as a PDF on my Teachers Pay Teachers page: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Skipping-Rope-Song-Rhythm-and-Melody-Slides

Please feel free as always to comment or email with any questions!

Lindsay

Jump Rope Songs and Rhymes

On Fridays when we have a regular full week of school, the PE teacher at my school and I combine to do Music and Movement with our kids. We have two classes in the gym at a time and sometimes this can get pretty crazy, but we generally have a good time and the kids look forward to it.

We do lots of folk dancing, parachute activities, and espesically in the month of February, we jump rope! Our PE teacher is in the middle of Jump Rope for Heart.

She has asked me to teach each grade some different long rope songs and games.

The following slides will be ON SALE for the rest of Feb. on my Teachers Pay Teachers Page.

This is the easiest one for them to jump with because there are only two lines of text before the numbers:

 This one "ups the anty" a little with four lines of text before counting the number of doctors it took to save poor Cinderella. So far, the high score in my room is 62 doctors.

 Uh-oh... this one has the word "boyfriend". I know what you're thinking.... "my kids won't go for this". I actually learned this one from my kids. I guess it's the hot rhyme on the playground these days. They also have another variation "Ice cream, soda pop, cherry on top, how many boyfriends do you got? 1... 2... 3..." I chose this one because I don't like "do you got".... I'm really not a grammar snob, but that does bother me.

 This one is great if you are working on so-mi-la. Throw the rope on "overhead".

 I thought this one would be too hard for my little kids who have a hard time jumping over the rope, and too babyish for my upper grades because of the text, but having to do the actions in the long rope really makes this a fun challenge for them. I have fifth grade boys chanting "Teddy Bear"! We do chant this one, like the rhythm in Susan Brumfield's book, "Hot Peas and Barley-O"



http://www.westmusic.com/1002410-print-music-books/m1030-general-classroom-music/m1030m-world-multi-cultural/m1030m13-europe/hot-peas-and-barley-o.htm But I use this text instead of hers because of the fun (and challengeing) actions.

 Skipping Rope Song can be found in 150 American Folk Songs. Every music teacher should own this book!



http://www.westmusic.com/1002410-print-music-books/m1030-general-classroom-music/m1030j-song-collections/150-american-folk-songs.htm

This song is great for prepare/present/practice ti-tiri (or whatever you call it in your rhythm language) by isolating the last line or tiri-ti.



These are available for download as a PDF file. You can easily convert that to PowerPoint slides or whatever you use in your classroom. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Jump-Rope-Rhymes-and-Songs

I project these in my room when we are using that particular song/rhyme, but for Jump Rope For Heart I have each of these laminated on different cards that will be placed around my music room with long ropes for different stations.

Happy Jumping!

Lindsay