Junior Practical

Today was one of those times where my lesson evolved because of how much my students were loving a particular activity we were doing. I have been developing my year 8s skills for rhythm reading and have them clapping rhythms as they read them off sheets of rhythms that I keep in the classroom. They were enjoying it so much that we continued on this tact into composition. The students wrote their own rhythms using the note values and then practiced them in groups ready to perform them to the class. I was surprised at how excited they were and how focused they were to practice their rhythm and get it correct it was awesome, I was glad I let the lesson naturally develop and encouraged them to be creative with their rhythm reading and writing!