Shark Attack! Quarter + Eighth Note Rhythm Reading Game for Music Centers
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You know that games are one of the best ways to get students excited about elementary music. You may also love using rhythm games during centers. But if you use the same games over and over again, students may get bored. Because of this, you need new, exciting rhythm reading games. You need Shark Attack!
Shark Attack! is a rhythm reading game perfect for elementary music centers or small group activities. To play, students take turns pulling out a card. They read the rhythm to collect the fish. The most fish at the end wins. Some of the cards work for or against the students, like the piranha card (put a card back), jellyfish (reverse directions), or Shark Attack! card (put all of your cards back).
To play Shark Attack:
- Print out the cards and put them into a box or bucket.
- Students take turn pulling out a card and clapping the rhythm (or playing it on Orff or a drum....).
- If they get it right, they keep it. If it is wrong, they put it back in the box, and the next student takes a turn.
- Some of the cards have students put back a card, put back all cards, change directions, etc.
- Most cards at the end wins.
This game never ends because eventually someone will get a Shark Attack! and put all their cards back in the bucket and start over.
I also like to listen to students reading rhythms and use it as an informal assessment.
This set includes quarter + eighth notes.
Since there are only quarter + eighth notes, there are only 16 rhythms. This is because there are only 16 possible combinations with those two sets of rhythms. (The other sets have more!)
Includes:
- Printing directions
- Kid friendly directions
- 16 different rhythms (copied so that there are 48 cards total so the game last longer)
- 8 piranha cards (put a card back)
- 8 Shark attack cards (put all cards back)
- 4 jellyfish cards (reverse direction)
- 2 Swordfish cards (choose someone else to lose a card)
- 2 School of fish cards (draw another card)
- Everything in stick notation!
All of the cards come in regular and stick notation, as well as color and black and white.
You may also like Kaboom!:
Get Level 1 Rhythm Kaboom here (quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth notes)
Get Level 2 Rhythm Kaboom here (half notes and sixteenth notes)
Get Level 3 Rhythm Kaboom here (syncopa, dotted eighth notes, dotted half notes)
Get B-A-G Kaboom for recorders here
Get Instruments of the Orchestra Kaboom here
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