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This activity will engage your young musicians as they learn about how to keep a steady beat with body percussion - stomps, claps, snaps, and taps. After students have learned about steady beat and practiced with clapping, they can be creative and compose their own combination of body percussion rhythms within the common 4/4 time signature. Cutting the icons out allows them to plan their rhythm before gluing them down on the second sheet of blank squares. When the class is done, choose one compo

With over 20 occurrences, students will get lots of practice decoding the ow/ou vowel teams with this short, silly passage about a cow that goes missing. First, students should highlight or underline all the key words and read them one at a time. Then have students read the passage 2-3 times (silently to self, altogether in a small group, with a partner). Then have them draw an illustration to go with the story. Finally, have them write a sentence describing their picture that goes along with th