--- title: Flashcard Attendance description: Does anyone use a quick, fun, or interesting way in which they take attendance each music class? image: https://blog.musicplay.ca/hubfs/Profile%20Picture%20Musicplay%20Minutes.png --- [![musicplay-logo](https://blog.musicplay.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/musicplay-logo-2.png?width=2701&height=877&name=musicplay-logo-2.png "musicplay-logo")](http://musicplay.ca) Open main menu Close main menu [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) # Flashcard Attendance [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Share this blog post on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I+found+this+interesting+blog+post&url=https://blog.musicplay.ca/flashcard-attendance) [Share this blog post on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://blog.musicplay.ca/flashcard-attendance) ![](https://blog.musicplay.ca/hubfs/Profile%20Picture%20Musicplay%20Minutes.png) ### Does anyone use a quick, fun, or interesting way in which they take attendance each music class? This question came up on our Musicplay Teacher's Facebook Group and many suggestions for musical ways of taking attendance were given! 1. This question came up on our Musicplay Teacher's Facebook Group and many suggestions for musical ways of taking attendance were given! If a student is away, the whole class sings , "David's not here today." Do this from the beginning of the school year, and then you can have students be the leaders. You could accompany the students by chording on piano or guitar and turn the activity into a fun opening song. 2. Try flashcard attendance. Call the names in order and have each child read a rhythm. There are 10 levels of rhythm flashcards in Smart Rhythms Vol. 2 that you can project with computer/projector or Smartboard, or you can use the old fashioned cardstock kind. Reading melody flashcards is also great reading practice. 3. It's fun to give each child a rhythm flashcard as they enter your classroom. 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