Candy Bar Rhythms

2nd Graders can use words to make rhythms! In this activity, each student got to pick a candy bar name and they used ta's, ti-ti's, ta-a's and shh's (quarter notes, pairs of eighth notes, half notes and quarter rests) to make a rhythm for their candy bar.

For example:

"Hershey Bar" could be "Ti-Ti, Ta."

After each student wrote their own rhythms, they combined theirs with their groups to make a composition. Then, they sight-read and clapped their new rhythms together. They found out that mixing up the index cards makes a whole new composition!

Here are the students writing out their rhythms:

Here they are practicing with their groups:

Nice work, 2nd grade!