Here are some rhythm cards to support the learning of rhythmic notation. The most important thing about rhythm at KS1 is that children can feel it and sense how it fits with an underlying pulse. Using words taken from chants and songs is a useful way into this. Showing children how the rhythms can be represented is an extension of this, but will only be meaningful to the children if they understand how it all fits together – the doing is much more important than the reading and writing.
All these cards (except the six-eight, diddly diddly ones) use crotchet/ta/mouse, two quavers/ti-ti/spider and a crotchet rest/shh
