Rhythm and Rhyme: Music & Poetry

This week you will practice various time signatures including simple and compound meters, and create haiku poetry using music vocabulary and rhythmic performance.

Materials Needed: Blank paper, markers, “drum sticks” from music kit or something to tap out rhythms on a drum, bucket or flat surface.

Steps:

1. Head to Chrome Music Lab: Rhythm and practice each exercise which will lead you through several different time signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8). 

Students can also change the rhythms to explore how to count!

Record yourself performing one of the exercises and post it to our FlipGrid.

2. Create a poem using 10 randomly generated music words

1. Use this link to spin the wheel and collect your 10 randomly generated  music words. Write them down on a separate piece of paper.
2. Order the words to meet the requirements of a haiku. You may add connecting words such as: ‘and’, ‘with’ and ‘the’ if you would like, but your poem does not need to “make sense” or be a complete sentence.

*You may not need all of the words that you collected and you are welcome to create MORE THAN ONE!

3. Select paper to use for your poem and write it in straight line stanzas, a design shape - be creative! You may also draw pictures or paste cut-outs from magazines to enhance your haiku through visual art!
4. Send a picture to Ms. Meg @ meg.boerner@artspacecharter.org

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