Review
- quarter note, quarter rest
- eighth notes, eighth rest (see quarter & eighth note resources)
- half note, half rest
- whole note, whole rest
- dotted half note
- sixteenth notes
- meter in 2 & 3 (see meter in 3)
Introduce
- sixteenth rest
- syncopation (eighth-quarter-eighth pattern)
- dotted quarter note
Lesson Plans
Rhythm Links
- Bubbles
- Dotted Quarter Notes
- Hula Hoop Rhythms
- Jazz Activities
- Music Math rhythm cards
- Note Cards
- Note & Rest Chart
- Note Pizzas
- Rhythm Cards
- Rhythm Game
- Rhythm [Pattern] Cards
- Sixteenth Note Patterns
- Syncopation
Rhythm Worksheets / Assessments
- Leaf & Pumpkin Note Handouts
- Music Math Worksheets / Assessments
- Rhythm Assessments
- Rhythm Compositions
Songs with rhythm activities
- All Night All Day
- Ama Lama
- Artza Alinu
- A Tisket A Tasket
- Canoe Song
- Captain Go Sidetrack Your Train
- Do Lord
- Free At Last
- Hill and Gully Rider
- I Want to Rise in the Early Morn
- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
- Lil’ Liza Jane
- Old Brass Wagon
- Weevily Wheat
- Who Built the Ark
- See: Songs in Meter of 3
- See: Sixteenth Note Resources
See also
5 thoughts on “4th Grade Rhythm Lessons & Resources”
Always amazed at your stuff and get inspired! Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂
Great ideas! Thank You so much!
You are so welcome! 🙂
I have a question: At what grade level do you believe, that students should learn standard traditional counting and be able to count and clap using 1,2,3&,4 methods.
Thank you
Steven Margarite
Good question, Steven!
In the elementary music classroom, I have preferred to use other ways to say the rhythms, such as “ta” and “ti-ti,” because I didn’t feel like I spent enough time with them to really get them used to counting. However, with my private piano students, I taught them to count from the very beginning. “Ta” and “ti-ti” are more adaptable to a “wholistic” (for lack of a better term) approach, i.e. that I teach them to feel and experience the music before I teach them to read music… much like we learn language. Speaking before reading. But when I teach piano lessons, I teach reading right along with the piano skills. Does that make sense?