Notate “See the Bunny” on a staff

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Some elementary students are too old to use pre-reading composition activities. My older elementary students, around 2nd to 4th grade, want to write on a staff. Students older than that don’t want bunnies and jelly beans, so we start with staff paper.

The composition activity sheet I am posting today is too long  to complete in one lesson unless you have a lesson devoted solely to composition.  There are several ways to speed it up:

• The teacher can write in the notes for the student.
• Have the students write only whole notes on the staff and later change them into quarter and half notes.
• Keep the activity in a folder and work on it over a longer time period.

You probably have some more ideas, so pass them along.

I received some requests from teachers to post this. If you have any students complete this activity, it would make my day to see their compositions!