Let's Keep a Beat, 1st Graders!

Our 1st graders have been working on differentiating between sounds that have a steady beat from sounds that have no beat. Ask your students to explain what a beat is, and have them demonstrate how to keep a beat with sounds around them!

We listened to environmental sounds that keep a beat, like clocks and windshield wipers, versus sounds that have no beat, like a cat meowing or a rainstorm.

We learned a poem called "Windshield Wipers," to help us begin recognizing how to keep a beat at different speeds. Check us out...

We learned the song "Miss Mary Mack," and as we did, we worked on recognizing sight words and finding rhyming words. We responded to this song with a movement game, and as the tempo changed, we had some fun! 1st graders, teach your parents or siblings how to play!