Thursday, September 19, 2013

Music: Rhythmic Building Blocks

The girls have been reading, writing, and performing rhythmic building blocks.  These are 2-beat rhythms that use a combination of half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests.  After learning a song about a bakery, the girls assigned bakery words to match the given rhythmic building blocks.

Next, they worked in groups to combine the rhythms using various elemental forms.  

Here's one group's final version incorporating the original bakery song and the bakery lists composed by the girls: