Back to School Music Composition Rhythm Cards Worksheets & Beat Strips

Engage your students with this Back to School Music Composition pack! This comprehensive and creative resource, complete with rhythm cards, rhythm worksheets, and beat strips is designed to enhance your elementary music students' music composition skills!

Kick off the new school year by inspiring your students to create their own musical compositions! Students will use school themed words and phrases linked with rhythms to create their own compositions!

You'll also find 7 back to school themed beat strips! Beat strips are a wonderful way for your lower elementary students to track their steady beats and to create rhythms!

This composition pack is differentiated so it can be used with multiple grade levels! There are two sets of rhythm cards included: a 2-beat set and a 1-beat set.

The 2-beat rhythm cards are intended for your lower elementary music students and the 1-beat rhythm cards will work for upper elementary. They each include the same back to school themed words, simply using different rhythms. Keep reading to find out more!

This Composition Pack Includes:

• Cards with Standard Notation Rhythms (listed below)
• "Easy" 2-Beat Back to School Themed Rhythm Cards
• "Hard" 1-Beat Back to School Themed Rhythm Cards
• Back to School Themed Beat Strips
• BONUS: Back to School Composition Worksheet

2-Beat Rhythm Cards (Lower Elementary):

1. Quarter Rest and Barred Eighths (Ta and Titi)
2. Quarter Rest (Shh)

1-Beat Rhythm Cards (Upper Elementary):

1. Quarter Rest and Barred Eighths (Ta and Titi)
2. Quarter Rest (Shh)
3. Half Note (Ta-a)
4. Sixteenth Notes (Tika Tika)
5. Eighth/Sixteenth Combinations (Ti Tika and Tika Ti)

*Note: No actual syllables are used in this resource, so it can be used with any pedagogy!

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As seen above, this music composition pack includes a variety of rhythm cards. These cards provide a hands on approach to understanding and manipulating rhythm patterns!

Also included is a Bonus Back to School Music Composition Worksheet! This rhythm worksheet is perfect for students to dictate their compositions! It also works well for rhythm assessments!

This is a downloadable, digital file that you can access immediately after purchase.

To open the files you will be required to have a PDF Reader such as Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer.

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