Students at Waverly Grade School were practicing their rhythm writing in grades Kindergarten through 5th today! The 5th-3rd graders learned a shorthand to use on their whiteboards when listening and converted their shorthand into real notes to make 4 and 8 beat rhythms! (5th grade not pictured - sorry 5th grade!)
Then the 2nd grade-Kindergarten used popsicle sticks on their 4-beat "measure" papers to represent the notes and rhythms they heard. A single stick is a quarter note, a "Z" is a quarter rest and three sticks in the shape of a "pi" symbol is a set of eighth notes! Sometimes they call these "ta," "Ta-di," and "SH!"
Kindergarten doesn't use eighth notes (yet!) but they were getting their patterns down AWESOME!
