This is Why We Dot

This project required students to write music using icons or dots.  Each dot represented the note head.  Students could put one, two or four dots in each box.  One dot=quarter note, two dots=barred eighth notes, four dots=sixteenth notes.  Students place them in the boxes and then clap out their rhythms, trade with a partner and clap out theirs and so on.  I've done something similar using grids and stampers (sometimes even home-made potato stamps!), but hadn't thought about using the little dot stickers until our state Music Educators Conference.

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