time blocks

Here are some kids using the time blocks that I have made to help them understand how to read, write amd play rhythms. There have been some promising results so far with children being able to correctly label and find combinations of various notes to equal a given note. We have been playing games like 'trainloads' and 'Mystery man' to achieve this. This is a new approach to teaching this material that I am trialling The method has been around for ages but I am reviving it for in the classroom. It is a little like using Quesionaire blocks (sorry about the spelling errors). Each block is represetative of a note of a certain length and each successive block is half the size of the preceeding one. The use of these blocks is a great way to approach more than one concept at a time, namely music rhythm and fractions. Later we place large cards alongside the blocks to link into the written rhythms concepts. We are working from the concrete to the abstract.
We are using games as a fun and easy way for kids to get into these concepts.