Ghostbusters move and freeze!

Got this Halloween idea from my mentor... Play the Ghostbusters theme song. They start the song by moving/dancing in self space.

When the kids hear the word "ghost" or "ghostbusters," they freeze. 

When they hear it again, they move. 

When they hear it again, they freeze. 

Etc.! 

They have to really be listening to the song to figure it out when to move and when to freeze!  You can add rules like they're out if they move when they should be frozen or vice versa.

Good body awareness activity. And the kids beg for it!

Autumn rhythms to read!

Rhythms in 4/4, 6/8, and 3/4 to read! The rhythms are straight from the Learning Sequence Activities! Download them here!

Autumn leaf rhythms to read!

Here are 5 different autumn leaf printables with duple meter rhythms to read. All rhythms are 4 beats long, and have just quarter notes and eighth notes.

3 of the rhythms come straight from the first duple meter Verbal Association LSA, representing the  Easy, Medium, and Difficult patterns that the kids learn to chant.

Download the leaf rhythms here.
Print these on autumn-leaf-colored paper (I used red, orange, yellow, brown, and green, and printed 6 of each pattern), cut, and laminate, for a cute rhythm reading activity where the kids can hold different rhythms they'll get to read!


As an extension to the activity, print out BLANK leaves, and have small groups write their own 4-beat rhythms!  Then have the kids perform the rhythms for each other in a Rondo form using a fall song as the A section of the rondo, and each small group as the B/C/D/E sections! (I use a song called "Fall Canon," which I got from an Orff class.)