for rhythm band instruments,

drumming, or found-sounds
by Jeri Crosby ©

Teach and reinforce these rhythms:

q  iq jjjq ijq jiq

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bread = beat/rest
 jam = q jelly = iq

peanutbutter = jjjq apricot = jiq raspberry = ijq

Table of Contents (Hyperlinked)

4 Level One Ingredients Chart q iq 

5-8 Level One Two-beat Combinations
9 Jam Session #1A (level one)
10 Jam Session #1B
11 Level Two Ingredients Chart q iq jjjq 
12-16 Level Two Two-beat Combinations
17 Jam Session #2A (level two)
18 Jam Session #2B
19 Level Three Ingredients Chart q iq jjjq ijq jiq 
20-27 Level Three Two-beat Combinations
28 Jam Session #3A (level 3)
29 Jam Session #3B
30-35 Large One-beat Cards for color printing
36-37 Smaller One-beat Cards, black-line for economical printing
38 Credits and Additional Resources
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Directions and Teaching Suggestions

Prepare to use a digital projector. Select, print and cut cards containing the rhythm patterns
you want to teach. Refer to and navigate from the table of contents on the previous page to
make this process easier.
Tell students you will be ‘making sandwiches’ today and ask them what you’ll need to get
started. Project or display your ‘ingredients’ (level 1, 2 or 3). Then explore each page
sequentially to introduce, compare and contrast the variety of two-beat rhythm patterns in
the level you've chosen. Emphasize that ‘bread’ represents the underlying beat, and model
whispering it, then just thinking/feeling it. Explain that the sounds we ‘put on’ the bread
(beat) create rhythm. Chant the text for each rhythm pattern and then transfer the pattern
to body percussion, drumming or found-sounds (desks, books, pencils, boxes, cans, etc.)
As your students are ready, project and teach the 4/4 meter ready-made jam sessions cor-
responding to the level you're working on.
Play rhythm patterns along with recorded music, changing the pattern every 16 or 32 beats.
Suggested recordings: Peanut Butter by the Marathons (1961, favorite), Peanut Butter and
Jelly (traditional silly song), Peanut Butter Jelly Time by Chip-man and The Buckwheat Boyz.

Give each student a one-beat card (select from pages 30-37). Play music as they mix and
move about the room. When you stop the music, have them find a partner and ‘make a
sandwich.’ Give them 30-60 seconds to practice their ‘sandwiches.’ Then, standing in a
circle, moving clockwise, have each pair perform their pattern, and challenge the class to
echo-tap it and guess the ‘ingredients.’ Older students can easily create four-beat patterns
by combining with another pair, by using two-beat cards , or simply combining four-beats
to begin with.
Have partners lay their cards on the floor inside the circle so others will be able to read
their patterns. Play recorded music (or drum a steady beat) and have partners clap the
rhythm in front of them three times (6 beats) and move clockwise to the next rhythm on
beats 7-8, e.g., “jam jelly, jam jelly, jam jelly, step to the left.”
Create a drum circle or rhythm band around the rhythms students have laid out, and
conduct entrances, layers, and exits. If desired, map a performance and record it.

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 Jam Session #1B: q iq 

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 Level 2 Ingredients

q sd xxxd

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Jam Session #2A: q iq jjjq

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 Jam Session #2B: q iq  jjjq

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 Level 3 Ingredients

q sd

xxxd xcd sxc

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 Jam Session #3A: q iq  jjjq ijq jiq

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 Jam Session #3B: q iq  jjjq ijq jiq

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 Peanut Butter Jam Sessions – Activity Cards – Economical Printing Format

  
(bread) (bread) (bread)

q q q
jam jam jam

iq iq iq
jelly jelly jelly

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jjjq jjjq jjjq

peanut butter peanut butter peanut butter

ijq ijq ijq

raspberry raspberry raspberry

jiq jiq jiq

apricot apricot apricot

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I hope you and your students enjoy these ideas and materials and increase
rhythmic literacy in the process. If you have questions, suggestions or
requests, please email me via TPT Q & A or at jeri.crosby@hotmail.com .

Recognition and Appreciation to Scrappin’ Doodles for the Peanut Butter and
Jam Clip Art Collection http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScrappinDoodles
Adaptations of and additions to the above clip art by Jeri Crosby (rhythmic text
and notation, jar labels, apricot and raspberry jars and breads)
Fruit clip art public domain, created by OCAL at clker.com
Black and white bread/rhythm graphics original work of Jeri Crosby.

If you like these materials, you may also like these additional rhythm teaching
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