My 1st graders use it to create different movements based on different winter clothes they could put on (scarf, hat, snowpants, etc.), and once they know the song, they practice audiating parts or all of it!
They also pretend to build a snowman, echoing triple meter patterns or singing the resting tone as they put new pieces of the snowman on.
My 3rd graders use these files to practice finding rhythms in the song, doing the 3rd grade version of rhythmic dictation for some of these trickier rhythms!
File 1: Powerpoint with rhythms for them to read first, then rhythms to find in the lyrics of the song. This is their first introduction to reading quarter-eighth rhythms in 6/8 (DU-DI).
File 2: SMART board file for them to practice dragging some of the rhythms to where they go as a class.
File 3: Small group work where the kids take the cut-out rhythms and place them where they go in the song. I laminated the paper and the cut-out rhythms so we could reuse them, but you also could have the kids cut and glue if you wanted.
All 3 files are here! Enjoy!!!
