BEAT SHEETS PRIMARY - Great Rhythm and Dance Patterns that Incorporate Site Words
BEAT SHEETS can be an extremely powerful tool to increase the enjoyment of dance during your PE classes or in the classroom. This BEAT SHEET packets includes activities for vowels, consonants, sight words, odd/even numbers, skip counting, patterns and dance.
With the BEAT SHEETS students will use patterns of claps and stomps to perform a rhythm. These Sheets are designed so that the students read them like a book, top to bottom and left to right. BEAT SHEETS also give the students a chance to be LOUD and OBNOXIOUS as well as work at their own pace in a small group. They also give children that are “rhythmically challenged” a chance to feel special and the children that could be “the next big thing” a chance to excel. In most cases the BEAT SHEETS are placed in groups of 4 or 8 to also help with music literacy.
BEAT SHEETS create patterns and patterns are all around us, from the clothing we wear to the repeating patterns found in nature and everyday routine. Patterning is also a basic math skill upon which many mathematical concepts are based. Identifying and creating patterns is just the beginning of the mastery of life-long mathematical skills for preschool students. Skip counting, addition and even times tables all require an understanding of patterning for elementary students.
The BEAT SHEETS incorporate using the right or left side of the body. This encourages the students to use Cross-lateral movements. Since the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side. Both sides are forced to communicate when arms and legs cross over. This “un-sticks” the brain and energizes learning. Since students work in small groups at the beginning it is easy for the instructor to monitor and see which groups need help.