043 - Rediscovering the Joy of Scavenger Hunts

Field Notes on Music Teaching & Learning · Apr 6, 2022 · 11m

It all started when I was writing a lesson plan for a 2nd-grade student. She’s in her second month of lessons.I was planning to introduce a new piece and I thought we'd start by exploring the rhythm since three of the four patterns were the same in this particular piece. Let me preface this by saying these were rhythm patterns the student had experienced aurally in previous weeks through imitation and clapbacks. I was looking for a way this week to introduce the written notation.My first thought was to write each rhythm pattern on a Post-It Note so we could discover together the ones that are…