2nd graders have been hard at work learning to decode patterns and songs in duple meter. Recently, they were challenged to decode the rhyme "Miss White Had a Fright" the first time they heard it! Students heard a line of the rhyme and immediately repeated it back using rhythm syllables. This was challenging because each line of the rhyme had a different rhythm. Being able to hear these rhythm syllables in the music we listen to will help us to eventually be able to read and write the rhythms.
This rhyme goes like this:
Miss White had a fright,
In the middle of the night.
Saw a ghost, eating toast,
Halfway up the lamppost.
Can your child teach you this rhyme? Are they able to decode it using rhythm syllables?
