3rd Grade
Intermediate Music 1
Students in 3rd grade music class explore their world by engaging in active learning processes to refine the skills, techniques, and processes of musicianship through such activities as improvisation and arranging. As they continue to develop their working music and cross-content vocabulary and become able to identify fundamental characteristics of musical structures, they demonstrate artistic growth through cognition and reflection and endeavor to use their own artistic voices to communicate ideas and inventions. They recognize the importance of cultural experiences in music throughout history and in emerging art forms. Music students examine the positive impact of the arts in society and practice creative risk-taking in preparation for contributive citizenship in the 21st century. Some things that students will learning in 3rd Grade Music are as follows:
How to play and sing rhythms and melodies beats in duple and triple meter.
How to use, identify and differentiate between a an adult's and child's singing voice by gender.
How to aurally analyze and perform the dynamics of a song as fortissimo, forte, mezzo forte, mezzo piano, piano and pianissimo.
How to aurally analyze and perform the tempo of a song as presto, allegro, moderato and largo.
How to aurally analyze and identify the form of a piece of music. (AB, ABC, ABA)
How to describe the mood of a song. (happy, sad, angry, scared, excited ect...)
Identify similarities and differences between composed music and folk music.
Identify families of instruments from the orchestra (strings, percussion, brass and woodwind)
Compare instruments from indigenous cultures and around the world.
Sing simple songs from a variety of cultures in America and around the world.
Sing and play rounds, cannons, and ostinati from around the world in an appropriate range using a proper singing voice.
Match pitch and echo and independently read simple melodies in the major and minor scales using sol feg hand signs and syllables. (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol La, Ti and Do)
Echo and read simple rhythm patterns using music vocabulary with 1, 2 and 4 beat rhythms for whole notes, whole rests, half notes, half rests, quarter notes, paired eighth notes, grouped sixteenth notes and quarter rests in duple and triple meter.
Discriminate between unison and two part singing.
Collaborate with others in a music presentation and use critical thinking to analyze and describe the qualities of their own performances and how to make improvements.
Improvise and rearrange rhythmic phrases, ostinoti and melodies to create new music.
Identify and describe how music is used in our lives and how we participate in it.
Create a musical composition that helps bring a story to life.
Identify musicians in the school, community and media.
Identify significant information about composers and their music throughout time (classical, jazz, popular, world music, film, theater, ect...)