Shark Attack! Rhythm Reading Game BUNDLE for Elementary Music Centers

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.

Each set includes:

• Printing directions
• Kid friendly directions
• 48 different rhythms
• 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.

Sets included:

• Quarter + eighth
• Quarter rest
• Half note
• Sixteenth note
• Dotted quarter + dotted half
• Ti-Tika + Tika-ti
• Triplet
• Syncopa