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Reading Sentences: School-Home Links

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading worksheet, students listen to a family member read 1 total of 6 sentences and clap each time they hear a word. Worksheet is designed to be signed by parent and student when completed.
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5 A Day

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore written music.  In this cross-curriculum health and music instructional activity, students sing a "5 a Day" song about fruits and vegetables.  Students clap a steady rhythm and identify written quarter notes in...
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Rhythmic Movement Skills

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in series of rhythmic movements to demonstrate skill in dance elements. In this rhythmic movements lesson, students answer sequentially developed questions which include clapping and marching to explore movement....
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Got The Beat

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to song in which they identify the beat. Listening to the song again, they clap and march to the beat after being introduced to the new vocabulary. They complete the same exercises for other songs played in class.
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Tony Bennett: With Special Guests The Backstreet Boys - Lesson 2

For Teachers K - 4th
Students clap four-beat rhythm patterns containing whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in a given tempo. They clap the tempo as their teacher holds up flash cards.
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3-5: Rhythm Beginnings

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore tempo.  In this rhythm beginnings instructional activity, students differentiate between steady and unsteady beats.  Students clap a variety of tempo and then move to the tempo of a song. 
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The Sounds of Summer

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars experiment with measuring the speed of sound in an open field by clapping hands and measuring the time delay between the clap and hearing the sound at a long distance. Students practice solving equations at completion of...
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Valentine Heart Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders clap a rhythm pattern notated on a board, and then make up their own patterns on percussion instruments. They answer addition and subtraction problems.
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Syncopation in Pevensey Castle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the syncopation rhythms from the musical piece, Pevensey Castle. They count and execute rhythms, count syncopated rhythms, and clap and count rhythms.
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Manu's Song

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observed the following pattern: snap, clap, snap, clap....Join my pattern when you know how it goes. After the all the students can follow the pattern ask them if they can use counters (2 colors) to show the pattern. Ask...
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Sight Reading Rhythm Patterns

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate ability to sight read rhythms containing half, quarter and eighth notes and quarter rests; by clapping and chanting rhythms written on chart 1.
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Attack Theatre Movement Lesson: The Toy Shop

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study even and uneven rhythms in music. They demonstrate slow and fast movements using various body parts and echo clap with their hands. Listening to uneven rhythms of the drum, they skip, jump and hop and simulate toys in a...
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Learning Different Rhythmic Patterns

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders observe and demonstrate different rhythmic patterns including combinations of quarter and rest notes. They discuss how rhythm is created by using quarter and rest notes, clap to a rhythmic pattern, write a rhythm, and...
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Four Corners Spelling

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a spelling activity using clapping and rhythmic patterns. In this ongoing spelling lesson, 2nd graders practice various spelling words in groups and using rhythms.  Students then independently spell words.
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Spelling Practice

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students clap out synonyms for their spelling words and put their words into alphabetical order. For this spelling lesson plan, students outline words with different colored pencils, and place them in alphabetical order. A challenging...
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Add-on Line Dancing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners practice sequencing and coordinating various movements to music.When they have chosen the music for the day, have them find a self space and clap and move to the beat in their space for the duration of the song.
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Music Accomplished Practice #4

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create their own rhythm with a time signature. They examine notes, rests, and how many beats for ech type of note. Students clap in rhythm. They perform their own rhythm for the class.
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Blind Man's Bluff

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars count to five. They use two blindfolds and a bean bag. One child is blindfolded. The other children sit close together in a circle on the floor. Spin the blindfolded person around three times, then release. The...
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Simple Rhythm Activities

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of rhythm in music. In this music lesson plan, students listen to a series of claps in any rhythm and repeat the rhythm back. Students create their own clap rhythm and add stomps to the pattern.
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Sorting words (four-block)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders each receive an index card with a word written on it. They look for spelling patterns such as "oi." Students sort the cards according to spelling pattern, and practice spelling words with the snap, clap, slap hand motions.
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Sponges Galore

For Teachers K - 6th
Students complete a sequence of physical activities/challenges involving a sponge such as dropping the sponge and spinning around before catching, dropping the sponge, clap spin and catching the sponge again. These activities can be done...
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Purple Polly Platypus

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare the /p/ sound to the sound of popcorn popping in the microwave and practice making the /p/. They try a tongue twister listening for the /p/ sound for the first time and then clapping when they hear the sound the...
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Choo Choo Train

For Teachers 1st
First graders study the sound and spelling of the /ch/ digraph. They repeat words containing the "ch" before making words using their Elkonin letterboxes and letter manipulatives. Next, they clap each time they hear the "ch" digraph...
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Math: Musical Patterns

For Teachers K
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."

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