Rhythm Basketball Set – Vol 5! Winter 3/4/5 Lesson Plan – Rhythm Practice & Performance

Description

Looking for a differentiated and exciting way to practice reading rhythms? Use Rhythm Basketball and bounce to the beat! Obtain enough basketballs, tennis balls, non-pitched instruments, or other bouncing balls and use the provided slides to practice and perform rhythms with some of your students’ favorite songs! You can use these fun pop play alongs to reinforce reading and performing whole note, half note, quarter note, and eighth note notation. You can also use this activity to review concepts such as measures, double bar lines, improvisation, and more! This is a great way to get your students reading rhythm!

Included in this set:

• • Detailed, editable lesson plans with Georgia standards and National NAfME standards for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade
  • Fun and engaging PowerPoint slides for four Winter songs:
    • “Hot Chocolate” Performed by Tom Hanks in the Polar Express movie
    • “Queen of the Winter Night” by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
    • “Let it Snow!” Performed by Ella Fitzgerald (includes 2 versions: one version with an improvisation section and one version without an improvisation section)
    • “Winter – Allegro non Molto” by Antonio Vivaldi
• • Instructions on how to time your PowerPoint slides to auto advance along with the music
  • Also includes a download link to slide decks compatible with Google Slides™️ for all four songs (PowerPoint is recommended if you want to program auto-advance with a song)

See examples of students performing Vol 1 here!

NOTE: You will NOT receive the audio files (this would violate copyright law!), but I have directed you on where to purchase the files on iTunes and how to attach them to PowerPoint.

See a screencast here on how to attach audio files to PowerPoint.