3rd Grade
Text: Share the Music (Macmillian); Making Music (Silver Burdett); Spotlight on Music (Macmillan) Quavers (online)
September
(continued throughout the year)
PATRIOTIC
MUSIC
FORM
Naming form
Echo
Call and Response
AABA
AB
ABA
Verse and Refrain
Rondo
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2
October
(continued throughout the year)
RHYTHM
Read using Gordon system du, du-day
Quarter, half, whole, dotted half, 8th, 16th notes
Quarter, half rests
Rhythmic Composition
Rhythmic Dictation
Improvise
Standards:
1.8, 1.9. 2.3, 2.7,
3.2, 3.3, 4.3, 6.4
November
(continued throughout the year)
Continue
RHYTHM
Rhythmic Dictation
Improvise Upp.
Meter of 2
Meter of 3
Compound meter
Simple meter
Standards:
1.8, 1.9. 2.3, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 4.3, 6.4
December
(continued throughout the year)
INSTRUMENT
FAMILIES
Strings
Keyboard
Brass
Woodwind
Percussion
How sound is produced in each family
Identifying instruments by sight.
Standards:
5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
January
(continued throughout the year)
EXPRESSION
Dynamics –loud/ soft
Dynamic markings pp ,p ,mp, mf, f, ff
crescendo and decrecendo
Dynamic contrast
Tempo- fast and slow
Tempo markings
Tempo terms
Changing tempo
Articulation- Smooth (legato) and detached (staccato)
accents
Mood- Variety of moods
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.7, 4.8, 6.4
February
(continued throughout the year)
PITCH
Match Pitch
Identifying pitch letter names on treble clef
Improvisation
Play PP
Ostinato
Simple Bordun
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7,1.8, 1.9, 4.3, 6.4
March
(continued throughout the year)
Continue Pitch Unit
Composition
Broken Bordun
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3
1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7,1.8, 1.9, 2.4, 2.7, 4.3,
6.4
April
(continued throughout the year)
Singing
Preparing for Program
Preparing music for the3rd grade South Carolina program
Matching pitch
Following Conductor
Singing techniques
Performing for an audience
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.6, 4.8, 5.4,
May
Year in Review
Singing
Preparing for Program
Preparing music for the 3rd grade South Carolina program
Matching pitch
Following Conductor
Singing techniques
Performing for an audience
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.6, 4.8, 5.4,
Folk Songs
(testing)
Standards:
Review of all standards covered within the year.