Establish a classroom atmosphere that celebrates the sharing of learning. Have opportunity for students to practice new learnings. Make student learning available to the larger community, i.e. books students write are shared with other classes, students report in school paper, student work is displayed at school, etc.

Share their compositions with each other.

Objective: To share their own meter compositions with each other. To get additional practice in the concepts.

Activity: Children break into groups of four. They pass their compositions to the child on their right. Each gets a turn to clap out (better if one drum is available to each group of four) the compositions. Keep rotating until all compositions have been done.

Assessment: Participation and cooperation. Note: Possibilities for next lesson(s): Teacher reviews student compositions, chooses one or two which will work particularly well, select students to be "performers." Move on to more complicated notation, or introduce melodic concepts which may be applied to their previous rhythmic compositions. This is a perfect lead into a spiral on composing melodies and lyrics combining poetry with music.