A classic music room activity made simple. When you are crazy busy, you need a workhorse that you can use with ALL your classes. Write rhythm notation for known songs, and patterns! Perfect for practicing rhythmic dictation! Compose their own rhythms!

Give your students a different way to think about rhythms & time signatures with this 10 Levels card game. Students will need to create different collections as they progress through the game – moving to the next level once a collection has been completed.

Your students will ease their way into composing with this fun rhythm composition activity! Perfect for centers and stations or for use with a non-music sub, these worksheets are differentiated for a wide range of skill levels and offer a fun and easy way for students to compose their own original music.

These rhythm flash card slides are a great way to help students practice and review rhythm notation reading in a fun way! These slides are designed to gradually increase in difficulty as students go through each 4-beat pattern. This bundled set includes sets 1-5, each set adding new rhythms up to and including quarter notes, barred eighth notes, barred sixteenth notes, barred sixteenth/eighth note combinations, half notes, dotted half notes, whole notes, “syncopa” patterns (eighth-quarter-eighth), and quarter, half, and whole rests.

This set of centers has 5 activities ready to print for your centers! It includes worksheets, Kaboom and Go Fish card games, composition cards, and a board game.

A twist on the classic line game!

Players take turns making squares by connecting the dots…..when you’ve made a square, put the rhythm in your composition area.

The Drum Beats is an active and fun PowerPoint music game for aural reinforcement of rhythms! Students listen for rhythmic patterns and change seats with classmates. My students absolutely love this game and there is no “winner” so it can be played for any length of time.

Basics of Rhythm is an all-in-one interactive music lesson which guides students through the sights, sounds, and feel of rhythm basics in music. This PowerPoint Presentation uses real-life images, audio, playalong recordings, and video links to keep students meaningfully engaged in the concept of rhythm. This is the perfect introduction or review of rhythm for your music students!

This game is a great way for students to review meter and time signatures. Students race to match their team’s “fish” rhythms with the correct bucket time signature. Several different game options are included and work really with individual, partner, or team work.

Pumpkin Poison is a great fall game to review and assess rhythm patterns. This bundle includes four games: quarter note and paired eighth notes, quarter rest, half note and sixteenth notes. These games can be used with any counting system!

Students will LOVE searching for and selecting their lunch options as they practice reading and writing rhythms. Pair this with the “Build a Lunch Digital Game” for a perfect review lesson!

Review rhythms with 387 Google Slides Rhythm flash cards. Each slide has one rhythm pattern, making them great for projecting. The clean design makes them usable at any time of year and is an ink-saver if you’d like to print them!

Are you struggling to teach meter to your 2nd-5th graders? Help your students grasp time signatures with this lesson that uses real-life experiences and examples. This unique and exciting lesson is kid-tested and approved!

Looking for a differentiated and exciting way to practice reading rhythms? Use Rhythm Basketball to bounce to the beat! Obtain enough basketballs, tennis balls, non-pitched instruments, or other bouncing balls and use the provided slides to perform rhythms with some of your favorite songs! I use these fun pop play alongs to reinforce reading half note, whole note, quarter note, and eighth note notation. In addition, we are able to discuss use of measure, double bar line, and more! This is a great way to get your kids reading rhythm!

These are not your average color by music worksheets! Students will be reading and searching for 4 beat rhythm patterns. Seven rhythmic concepts included, 52 worksheets.