Rhythm Train

This is a great warm up activity! It only takes about 5 minutes.

Rhythm Train    Grade levels- 1-5

• Sit the class in a circle
• create 4 beat pattern doing the same motion, have the class mirror you. 
• After doing this several times invite someone in the circle to make up their movement for 4 beats. Repeat with several other students. 
• Beginning to teachers right have the first student to 4 beats, the class repeats. 
• The next student does a new movement. The class now does students 1 and 2 movements. 
• See how far the class can get, adding on a new movement each time! 

Adding music can help to keep a steady beat. This is tricky for 1st grade, but the older grades love it! 

zzzzzz- unit plan template

I'm so so tired and really should go to bed, but I'm crazy excited about these simple templates that I finished today and can't wait to use for all of my units! I just finished my first year of teaching and I've been trying a million different ways of organizing my lessons and ideas. I like the simplicity of using a unit plan to help guide my lessons.

Here is an example of what a full year curriculum might look like, assuming you have 4 quarters in the year. This is for a 1st grade class.

Here is the blank template that I started with for building my individual unit plans from my bigger curriculum plan.

Here is one filled out for the first unit or quarter. 

Here is a sample lesson plan within the unit. 

I hope that these are helpful! I'm sure I'll modify them as I continue organizing my lessons into unit, but I'm really excited to be totally organized. I promise to share all of my lessons with everyone, because I love getting ideas from others. Teaching rocks.