I did the following with my six years old class from a Kodaly Method book:

"I gave them four-beat rhythmic values/phrases. As I pointed, children clapped and say first the words and then the rhythm with "Ta's" and "Ti-Ti"s", Kodaly Method. "Then we clapped different animals, instruments and the babies of each kind of animal. Then I clapped rhythms and they echoed those back and echo speak it back", Kodaly method book.

I encountered the following problem: While the students were able to clap the animals, the instruments, their names and rhythms they had difficulty in echoing those back with Ta=quarter note and TiTi's-eighth notes.

The same problem I encountered wheh "I Played on the piano and had the children speak back its rhythms pattern in "Ta" and "Ti".

I had no problem when "I chanted a chant and children echoed it back first with words while clapping". However they had the same problem when "repeating it back with Tis and Tas."

How can I develop their understanding of "Ta"'s and "Ti-Ti" 's?

When we played a game of who will first clap back correctly the rhythm of their names they got it right with their name clapping but they could still not find in the "Ta"'s and "Ti-ti"'s of the rhythms they were clapping.

What shall I do?