3rd Grade

Look below to find out all of the things that third graders

will be learning about in music class!

RHYTHM/NOTATION

SINGING

LISTENING

PLAYING

MOVEMENT

steady beat

high/low

loud/soft

steady beat

locomotor

rhythm ostinato

upward/downward

fast/slow

rhythm of the words

non-locomotor

meters 2/4 3/4 4/4

same/different

smooth/detached

body percussion

action songs

quarter note

repeated patterns

inner hearing

simple drone: bordun, levels

singing games:

2 eighth notes

skips, steps

program and non-program music

alternating, crossover

American/diverse cultures

single eighth note

sing w/ appropriate:

vocal & instrumental music of

ostinato

Circle and line dance from

quarter rest

posture

other cultures

s m l d r d' l, s,

other cultures

half note

tone quality

instrument families: string, brass

pentatonic

move to show: beats in 2's,3's

half rest

diction

woodwind, percussion, and instrument

create accompaniment using

move to show: steady beat

4 sixteenth notes

sing individually

of other cultures

body percussion and

mood, contrasts, tempo,

whole note

small group singing

concert etiquette

instruments

dynamics, style

whole rest

multicultural, seasonal

p,f,mp,mf,pp,ff

improvise 4 beat & 8 beat

create accompaniments:

dotted half note

patriotic and folk songs

patterns rhythmically

body percussion or instrument

fermata

create new melodies to

canons, rounds

move to show form

accent

familiar texts, and new words

double bar lines

to familiar melodies

staff

cresc./ decresc.

treble clef sign

MELODIC PITCHES/ HANDSIGNS

FORM

so-mi la do re

AB, ABA, Rondo

hand signs

March, Waltz

high do

D.C al fine, D.S. al Fine

low so, low la

introduction, interlude, coda

do centered pentatonic

first and second endings

la centered pentatonic

melodic ostinato

rounds, canons, partner,

counter melodies, descants

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