Each lesson is 30 minutes long.

LESSON 1 – Introduction

• Sing School Song – patsching steady beat while singing
• Music Room Rules / Announcements
• Sing Character Counts

LESSON 2 – Rhythm

• Sing School Song & Character Counts
• Identification Chant – students patsch while I chant, and they gradually learn it   (more name songs)
  • Teach chant. (Talking voice)
  • 1 student plays tubano on beat, then says name and plays rhythm of name. Class echoes with clapping.
• BOOK: Muncha Muncha Muncha   (more rhythm activities)
  • Read book.
  • Show rhythm cards. They clap.
• Walk and Stop – with “bubbles” – add different locomotor movements.

LESSON 3 – Rhythm

• Sing School Song & Character Counts
• Identification Chant
  • Review chant.
  • Sitting, click feet together on beat, clap names
  • Students in circle, 3 students & drums in middle. Each student says name, class echoes.  I give them each a number: 1,2,3 – then after playing, they pick new person, tell person what number they are.
• Students are put in a seating chart on the risers (up until now they were sitting in a circle on the floor).
• Book: Muncha Muncha Muncha
  • Show rhythm cards. I say patterns, they echo and clap.
• Walk and Stop – add different locomotor movements.

LESSON 4 – Rhythm

• Sing School Song & Character Counts
• Book: Muncha Muncha Muncha
  • Review & add instruments (I name and demonstrate each one and explain the rule of instruments: if anyone plays when they are not supposed to, they lose the chance to play.)
    • Tippy – maracas
    • Spring – woodblocks
    • Dig – guiros
    • Dive – triangles
    • Muncha – drums/tambourines
  • As time permits, switch instruments.

LESSON 5 – Rhythm

• Character Counts
• Hoops Activity:
  • Put 8 “tas” on board:     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
  • Stick cards on board: snap, clap, pat, stamp
  • Turn on rock beat (on keyboard)
  • Choose student “conductors” while the class does the body percussion – the same colored card of the hoop that the student is standing in (about 6 students each day)
• Beat = “ta” = hearts on board.
  • 8 hearts, they “ta”
  • Trade 2 “ta” hearts for “rest” hearts
  • Make pattern:  ta, ta, ta, rest
  • Draw them with note heads = Name it: “quarter note”
• Show them rhythm patterns – have them echo me “ta”
• Bow Wow Wow
  • Show PowerPoint.
  • Teach song.
  • Movement/ Circle dance.

LESSON 6 – Rhythm

• Character Counts
• Hoops Activity – same as last lesson, choose more students to be “conductors”
• PowerPoint Rhythms (see below)
  • Review (from 1st grade): quarter note, quarter rest, eighth notes
  • Teacher says rhythm pattern – always clapping rhythms also – students echo
• Four White Horses – I sing words while they do beats.   (more songs with hand clapping)
• BOOK: Catalina Magdalena
  • Read & Sing – students pat beat

Links

• 2nd Grade Rhythm Lessons 7-12
• 2nd Grade Rhythm Lessons 13-20
• 2nd Grade Rhythm Lessons & Resources
• Half Note Lesson
• 2nd Grade Rhythm Assessments
• more lesson plans