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A classic music room activity made simple. When you are crazy busy, you need a workhorse that you can use with ALL your classes.
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A classic music room activity made simple.
When you are crazy busy, you need a workhorse that you can use with ALL your classes. Five minutes passing time (or less!) between classes can be pretty rough on your setup, especially if you need to make a trip down the hall!
This set makes it super easy to pass out an envelope or a baggie to each student. Color coordinate your cards so you can tell your first graders to pull out 2 colors, and your 5th graders to pull out 6.
– Write rhythm notation for known songs and patterns
– Perfect for practicing rhythmic dictation
– Compose their own rhythms!
Contains 7 different measure cards and cards with rhythmic values represented by length for whole notes and rests down to sixteenth notes and rests.
– Stick and regular notation
– Heartbeat icons for quarter/eighths for your pre-reading students
– Easy print pages for color coordination
Beat strips are one of the best tools a music teacher can have, and have been a favorite of teachers for decades for a reason!
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Keyed Up For Music –
This was the perfect addition to our rhythm unit! Thank you!
Christina Sarris –
These are awesome! I’m looking forward to mounting these on different colors of construction paper per the note size for easy recognition. Great product! Thank you!!
Emily V. –
These were so helpful. My students really enjoyed using this resource.
Shelley –
Thanks so much! 🙂
Jennifer P. –
Great resource!
Shelley –
Thank you!
Elizabeth K. –
Awesome product. Very easy for my kids to use
Shelley –
Thanks!
Creative Chorus –
Love these for independent learning activities! My students worked really hard to create unique rhythms to perform for their classmates!
Shelley –
🙂 Glad you love it!
Sabrina S. –
This is awesome! Thanks!
Shelley –
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Angela D. –
Thank you for a great resource!! 🙂
Shelley –
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Beth Y. –
Thank you for creating this great resource!
Shelley –
Glad you love it!
Mari Zayas –
Awesome resource!
Shelley –
Thanks!
Karen S. –
I like how the number of beats corresponded to the size of the box so there’s no question visually that ti ti and tiki tiki equals one beat just like ta which will make this easier to understand and remember note values. Looking forward to using this.
Shelley –
Thank you! I’m so glad you love it!
Chantal N. –
Merci pour votre beau travail
Shelley –
🙂 Glad you love it!
Tricia M. –
An awesome resource! I look forward to using it this coming school year.
Shelley –
Thank you so much!
Music Par Faye –
These are so cute. I can’t wait to use them in my classes. I love that they are various levels.
Shelley –
Thank you so much!
Deborah M. –
I was going to make this myself and then I found it in your store. What a perfect item for any time in the school year! Thanks!
Shelley –
:)Yay for time saving!
Simply Joyful Music –
My kids used these manipulatives to compose rhythms for Boomwhackers last week, and the whole process went very smoothly. The rhythm cards fit the measure cards perfectly, reinforcing the relationships of notes and their durations. I was also pleased that all the rhythms we cover in my classes were included. Great resource!!
Kimberly D. –
simple and easy to print and implement! thanks!
Gabrielle F. –
Awesome – so many applications.
fosterANDink –
Love theses, just wish you could fit four rows on one page!
But these have saved my life/time! So great for teaching meter and dictating rhythms
Kristen B. –
This was a great hands-on activity for students to practice building rhythms in various time signatures.
Rebecca R. –
Great set! I know I’ll get a lot of use out of this, with multiple grade levels. Thank you!
Susan Draheim –
Can’t wait to use these! Thanks!
Heidi S. –
Thank you for creating such a neat and organized product that we can easily print and use with our students. I love having manipulatives for my students to practice notating and composing, and these are perfect!
M C. –
This is awesome! Thanks!
Carrie G. –
Thanks
Janet B. –
Love the variety of notes!! Thanks! It’s a great resource!
Marilee S. –
What a great resource!!!
Christie Z. –
Perfect for composing rhythm patterns. Thanks!
The K-8 Music Teacher –
Exactly what I was looking for! Saved me so much time and is a great way to check students understanding of rhythm from time to time! Thank you!
Alice D. –
Printed different notes and rests on different colors of papers and laminated them, so now I have a set of manipulatives for each student. They love them and rhythms and note values are finally clicking for some who were struggling! It’s awesome.
davina A. –
great resource. looking forward to using with the students. thank you
Nicole B. –
Rhythms align perfectly.
Anna A. –
Simple design that works well for students. Thanks for this wonderful resource!
Rachel W. –
I love this manipulative! This is just what I have been looking for. Thank you for put so many rhythms and stick rhythm in this download. I have made my job a lot easier. I look forward to using these this school year.
Andrea H. –
Love all your resources!! Looking forward to adding this!!
Shiver Me Timbres –
Thanks
JEllis Music –
I will be using these in centers. My students will enjoy them. Thanks.
Sheri P. –
Great resource! Thank you!
Mommy’s Music Makers –
These are awesome!
The Indie Music Teacher –
My kids love these rhythm manipulatives!
Andrea G. –
Saves me a lot of time and I like that now I have a set that everything will match across my classes.
Thea C. –
These will be great visuals to help students understand rhyhtms
Jessica W. –
Love this resource! Perfect for rhythmic dictation.
Beth T. –
These are great. I’m going to be printing off several to make individual kits for my students in this time of needing separate materials for everyone.
Kristina G. –
This is worth the prep! Each student will be getting their own “set” to use this year with COVID, that way they can work on rhythms at school or at home!
Kelly C. –
I am putting these manipulatives into music kits I am making for each student. They work well so that every students has their own set and I do not need to sanitize materials.
Gretchen P. –
My students loved using this activity to make and perform their own rhythms!
Caitlin A. –
It’s effort, but students really learn better with manipulatives. Thanks!
Samantha S. –
I love this resource! I was going to create this on my own, but found this and it saved me soooooo much time! I love that the rhythms take the correct amount of space in terms of duration on the beat cards!!! The best!
Emma Ede –
Kids loved it, thanks!
Laura Nordlund –
Great manipulative for my student to show individual understanding.
JP B. –
Soooooo incredibly useful! Also, Mrs. Stouffer, I saw your tip for printing the rhythms on different colored sheets (ex.: Quarter Note=Red paper; Eighth Notes=Blue paper; Quarter Rests=Green; etc.) and wish I had done that before laminating them all on white paper, but that’s for the future!
Music With Mrs Q –
I had been needing to replace my handmade manipulatives for years and this was the perfect way to upgrade! So many uses and after laminating they will last me forever!
MeKayla Preheim –
I love using manipulatives as it helps reinforce what I teach from the front of the room, and really engages the students in a hands-on way.
Brianna P. –
This resource was great to use! It let my students have more room to be creative. Thank you!
Joan P. –
I copied and laminated these and put them in sets for my students who really liked them. They are quick to use and I love the professional quality. I also put magnets on the backs of one set, and have them permanently on the side of my magnetic board – they are easy to move around as I teach rhythms. Thankyou Melissa. 🙂
Jessica M –
These were exactly what I was looking for to have a hands on experience for the students. They enjoyed being able to move and make, and I loved that it is easy to assess if they are able to produce what is asked, or play their own creations. Brilliant, made a class set and have them in reusable envelopes for easy grab and go!
Joslyn Lay –
I enjoyed using this resource, my students loved it. Thank you!
Evan M. –
Thank you so much! Great resource for elementary music classroom.
Moozikl Molly Z –
Great manipulative to use in my classroom with rhythm review!
Laurie N. –
This rhythm resource was fun and easy for students to use. It is a simple design and just what I needed!
Thank you for the resource!
Deidre M. –
My students loved this resource this morning! Even though I teach middle school, they were able to use this for their own rhythm creations individually and in groups. Printing this out made it so easy to get ready for my students! I was wondering if you have a triplet page to add at some point? Otherwise this set seems very complete! Thanks so much!
kathleen C. –
I love an activity that can grow with them. I find that the squares and different lengths of the note duration cards are a valuable visual for many of my students. It was helpful when learning whole note that it took up the whole frame. I also liked that it came with different time signatures.
Yvonne G. –
Fantastic templates to use for any music lesson. Saves so much time designing the different time signatures, patterns etc. All done for you!! Thank you so much!
Elin M. –
These are great for individual student manipulitve!
Colleen G. –
This was a great addition to my rotation of writing practice choices.
Cody P. –
I use these all the time for practicing new and old rhythms. I printed them on cardstock and laminated them.