RHYTHM BASKETBALL is in Holiday Style with Jose Feliciano's hit song that is sure to get everyone rocking, the ever-so-famous "Feliz Navidad"!

There are six all-color coded slides along with the form identifiers listed next to each phrase. Discuss form with the students and teach them (by rote) the rhythms on the powerpoint with the corresponding repeats (all are grouped 3x + 1x).

• For this, your students will each have a basketball (can be regulation size or smaller) and bounce their ball on the ground each time they see a basketball icon. Each basketball icon is denoted as a quarter note. The rests are in between each ball for the students to hold the ball. Any smaller balls (grouped in two) will be played as 2 eighth note pairs and students will have to lower themselves a foot or two to dribble eighth notes on the floor

• There's also a "pat" icon with a hand below the basketball icon itself, so you will have the student hold the basketball in one hand and pat the ball on the beat

Here's the track so you can play along...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOPZoX6ZSnE

Even though it's a chorus/verse rotation over and over again (as you music teachers know the chart by heart), the arrangement has a bit of variations in rhythm with the basketballs ;)